We had a lovely Themed Thursday this week. I didn’t put a lot of effort into putting holds on books, figuring that there would always be books on fairies at the library even if they were nauseatingly pink, but then we couldn’t find any. So we didn’t read any books, but the kids dressed up, we did a few themed maths activities, I made the Butterfly Matching Game with Hugh out of the sheets of stickers I bought the other day, and we bought paper plates for the busy box with the intention of making petal masks. We didn’t end up making exactly what I envisaged but the kids still had fun. We also picked up the mail, which included a bag of little peg figures, so when we got home we made gnomes, which took up a large portion of the afternoon and kept the kids happily engrossed.

I made a toadstool gnome, Katy made a gumnut, and Hugh made a big mess (and, eventually, a doll).

Our new dolls house arrived in the afternoon, with door to door service from the seller’s husband who happened to be doing a handyman job in Geeveston and dropped it off to us. In return we asked him about a couple of jobs we have and it appears that he may actually be the reliable handymammal we have so far failed to find, so he may get a bit more than $35 out of his housecall. The kids were thrilled with it. We need more furniture, however; possibly that will be an activity for Friday.

In the evening, H wanted to read more of Little House in the Big Woods, but the book has vanished. Instead we all watched some more of Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives, although the DVD corrupted partway through, and he watched an episode of Walking with Cavemen instead. Meanwhile, Bat and Katy played at least one round of Bartok, to the accompaniment of gales of evil, triumphant cackling from the daughter, and a game of Mhing. Katy is really getting into card games at the moment!