Tag Archives: 2020.04

Having not properly left the house for over three weeks I was determined to walk around the block by the end of the day. Not a long way in the grand scheme of things, but really quite a distance given how inactive I’d been up to that point.

Megan displayed her artistic credentials and got the children creating beautiful flowers from colourful circles of paper. It was amazing to see their utterly gorgeous pictures springing to life from such a simple starting point.

The kids took every opportunity to splash and jump in puddles. Despite wearing wellies and puddle suits, they still managed to arrive home with cold and wet feet and legs. A quick change of clothes and warm sausage rolls sorted them out soon enough though.

While the kids were playing together beautifully, they had somehow managed to make such an almighty mess that it took nearly half an hour to sort it all out. If only there was some way to channel their ability to cause chaos in to something good!

The children decided that they wanted to “run a marathon” in the back garden. They were very inspired by Auntie Daisy. However, they can’t have run more than 150 metres before they got too tired to continue.

The two main downsides of playing on the Wii were that (1) the kids hate losing so went in to insta-sulks if they didn’t win a particular game, and (2) there was a big comedown after all the excitement so they were almost unbearable in the afternoon. We can’t win!

Stephen discovered the new version of Danger Mouse on Sky and the kids are totally hooked. It’s highly entertaining watching Stephen trying to explain to the kids how the show “breaks the forth wall”.

James has decided he wants to rebuild all of his Lego sets. Unfortunately he’s kindly dismantled and distributed all the pieces across all the boxes of Lego throughout the house. This is going to be a long, arduous Lego building journey.

The children were mostly good while they made cheese straws, but Genevieve got cross and threw a strop when she saw that James’s batch had more twists than her ones.

Megan found a water colouring book in the cupboard. Despite the promise of “mess free fun”, the children still managed to splash the mucky water everywhere (including our beautifully white walls). I’m going to have to repaint most of the house once lockdown has finished.