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Genevieve wanted to make a calendar up until she’s seventeen “when she can marry Harrison”. Stephen was not willing to make her a calendar covering over ten years of dates, so they agreed to create a countdown calendar instead.

I had to go the bakery first thing in the morning to get bread as we had near enough run out again. I have no idea where Stephen and the children put the stuff – they get through so much!

The children had asked in advance for a teddy bears’ picnic to be an activity for the day. Grandma Lindsey, with due diligence, had all of the bears lined up to welcome Genevieve and James when they arrived.

Grandma returned home and remarkably the house hadn’t been flooded or burnt down by James and Grandad. James decided to build a robot to take home, so we said goodbye to a few empty cartons and tubes.

Genevieve asked how Harry Potter and Hermione made their feathers into quills. I was only too happy to oblige showing her with the black drawing ink I had in my cupboard. I haven’t seen her write so much in one go totally by herself with no support or cajoling, coaxing or any form of bribery in I don’t know how long. It was awesome!

As soon as Genevieve burst in the door, she desperately wanted to show Stephen her yoga skills. I have no idea why as she hadn’t mentioned it once on the way home!

It was a school day for Genevieve so, of course, I had to wake her up and force her out of bed at 7.45am. A stark contrast the day before when she had been up and running about at the crack of dawn.

Pudding accompanied by both squirty and pouring cream. The children’s eyes lit up when they realised there were two types of cream they could have. I’ve never seen cheesecake disappear from a plate so fast.

Genevieve found one of the hen do games that we thought had been hidden away. It was a game of hoopla where the pole you’re aiming for is strapped to someone’s body and is shaped like, shall we say, an invigorated male protuberance. Thankfully she thought it was a “witch’s nose”. Oh the joy of innocence.

We had only been pond dipping for five minutes, and had found just a few snails and dragonfly larvae, when a sudden high-pitched wail was heard. James has fallen into the pond.