We got in the car and realised that we were almost out of petrol. Since we don’t get paid til tomorrow I was already planning on doing a smaller shop than usual, and I wouldn’t be able to put petrol in and do the full shop, so I gave up on that idea til tomorrow. We went to Geeveston instead and posted my parcel, picked up a parcel, and dropped off the overdue items. When we got home, I declared the moratorium on screentime for the rest of the afternoon, so we made a new Plan, a habit which had fallen by the wayside when B was here. So far K has done some beading and made a bracelet, H has thrown beads on the floor (sigh), and they started out playing an elaborate game with dolls and teddies based on Labyrinth, but foolishly I distracted K just when H had finished dragging the entire collection of dolls and furries into the back yard. Dragged entire collection of dolls and furries back inside. Then K settled down to do some more cutting and pasting into her African scrapbook, so H decided he wanted to do some collage as well.

We had crossed a few things off our Plan by that point, so next up was baking, and of course sharing the bowl afterwards! We made pear and apple muffins from the half-eaten fruit which the children scattered all over the kitchen yesterday, then zucchini and feta muffins. Nom. K looked through recipe books for biscuits she liked the look of, but I ended up making (a rather bottom-heavy) date crumble slice instead. Things went a bit pear-shaped after that because H was just so tired, so I ended up putting a DVD on at his request in the hope that he would lie down in front of it and rest. He didn’t, so it all got a bit fraught. But he cheered up after dinner and went to bed without much argument. K had three or four chapters of The Long Winter then amused herself until Mr Bat was ready to come and sing songs.