Today was pretty nothingish. Mr Bat was staying in bed resting his lurgified self and doing some more work on his volunteer project, having finished his paid one last night. I cracked the shits around lunchtime and asked him to take a week off and spend it getting a decent amount of sleep and spending time with his children.

I was doing some journalling in my bedroom a bit later on and the kids decided to communicate with me by sticking notes under my bedroom door. K is obviously a pedant in the making – she wrote me a note saying “I want to make something” and spelled want as w’ – when I asked her, she said it was because she didn’t know the rest of the word so she put an apostrophe in there to indicate that there were missing letters, lol. That’s my girl! (The note was spelled “I w’ to mk sfi”, and she explained that she had sounded out the words to try and work out what letters to use). Then she wrote another one saying “I w’ to mec a paper cron” (she asked me to spell “paper crown” for her). So we made paper crowns and K decorated them with flowers she cut out of some wrapping paper.

Mr Bat took them out to the cafe at the bottom of our hill to get hamburgers for lunch, but that was about the only excursion we made. It was a very cocooning sort of a day. The kids watched The Magic Pudding (on loan from the library) and a BBC nature DVD I bought at the op shop yesterday – Ant Attack and Spiders from Mars (they were much less silly and melodramatic than the titles, although there was some annoying camera work inflicted on poor David Attenborough in the spider one). Mr Bat cooked dinner, and then took H off to bed for music til he went to sleep, and I finished reading The Long Winter to K. She wasn’t tired after that, so watched the ant DVD again until she was ready to go to bed.

I followed some rabbit trails on-line and discovered that there is a nearby Raptor Refuge near Kettering, although it doesn’t appear to be regularly open to the public. From there, I found SOAR, a site for kids, and a link to Soaring: A Tasmanian Wedge-Tailed Eagle Kit, produced by a Tasmanian wind energy company, Roaring40s. I reckon we should join the raptor refuge and go to the members’ open day, if they have another one in September this year. That would be awesome if it’s on while B is here!