Aargh aargh. Have been farting about and not updating this thing, and of course I can never remember anything we do if I don’t write it down straight away.
Saturday
We saw a family of Superb Fairy Wrens in the front garden at breakfast. I did some googling to confirm my ID (I was confused between blue wrens and fairy wrens but I think this is the Taswegian version). During my searching I found a link to this Tasmanian Dreamtime story about how the wren got his colouring, so read it to K and H. From what I read about their nests, it sounds like the domed one we found low in the branches of the hedge is probably this family’s.
I went out for a couple of hours, during which time they pottered about with Mr Bat, went out to get petrol and wonglepongs, and played in the garden. After I got back, Mr Bat locked himself in his room, and I variously read books, washed up, and pootered. K spent some time doing the Major Mynah activity book, inc. doing pages which required her to look at a picture and identify the first letter of the word, then write it into boxes to find a word, pattern/shape recognition, matchng pairs, finding differences. Then later on she decided she wanted me to read her some of the quite long and detailed Eyewitness Guide, Africa, by Yvonne Ayo, and we had the usual 20+ pages of On The Banks Of Plum Creek before bedtime.
Friday
Was a thoroughly vegetable day, but K saw a flock of birds perching on the power lines outside and asked why they didn’t get electrocuted, and in my attempts to answer her question beyond the very basics, ended up reading through and summarising bits of this quite informative link (to a physics forum discussion). We also set up an obstacle course in the living room which kept them busy for ages. I suggested making beanbags together to play a game of beanbag toss but we didn’t get around to it. But mostly we watched DVDs and flumped in our PJs. Which meant of course that it was this day, rather than any other day this week when the house was relatively under control and we were all up and dressed and bearing much less resemblance to slovenly pigs, was the day our friend K came round to borrow our sink plunger *sigh* I read K 20+ pages of On The Banks Of Plum Creek before bed, while Mr Bat attempted to pacify H.
Thursday
Was fairly productive in the morning in terms of keeping on top of house stuff. I also put dinner in the crockpot and bread machine by lunch time, which was convenient later on. We rounded up all the library books, and I read them all to the kids, then we went to the library and post office. Some holds had arrived at the library, and at the PO I sent off a package (raffle donation) and we picked up a parcel for K from Grandmoogi and a parcel for all of us from B. We read some of our new library books and the kids watched the Goodies in the evening before Mr Bat came home. We started reading On The Banks Of Plum Creek in the evening.