Another nothingy sort of day. Was sunny in the morning and I thought of excursions but by the time we got our act together it was lunchtime and raining. We went to Margate to the tip, and just happened to also drop in on the Vinnies there which is open til 5 on Saturdays (bliss! Why aren’t more of them?). Tip shop was productive of a number of books and a broken necklace, which I will be taking apart for the beads; Vinnies a shirt, a scarf, a linen tea-towel, a pair of pillowslips for making into a bag, and another book or two.

This morning I helped K make rings and a bracelet and another necklace out of wire and her beads. She has been looking through the phonics book again, and read a page or two in one of the PM readers this evening but isn’t very enthused by them. She also asked me about counting by 20s this arvo. We read books and they played with Duplo. They both helped me shred the silverbeet and put it in the food processor for tonight’s dinner. K wanted to learn how to darn when she was watching me darn a sock this evening – might have to get a proper darning mushroom and start teaching her (I was using some wooden food with a suitable curve, but a mushroom would be easier). After we finally got them in bed I did some beading for market wares for an hour or two – completed another green spiral dangle, and started a bracelet from upcycled mother of pearl and shell beads strung on tigertail.