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James appeared not to understand fully the rules of petanque. He spent most of the game moving the winning bowls away from the jack and kicking his ones closer so that he could declare himself the winner. He did so with a cheeky smile on his face; knowing exactly what he was doing and the fun he was providing. He’ll do well in life!

The fun and laughter was soon brought to a halt when it was declared time for Genevieve’s home-schooling. It is amazing to think that such a bright, clever and mainly very willing girl would fight tooth and nail against writing a few sentences in a book.

I dug the kids’ Mr Frosty out of the cupboard. It was a lot of hard work to get a minuscule amount of shaved ice out (certainly nowhere near as easy as the adverts make it look), and the handle felt like it was about to snap off at any second. So, we ended up cheating and just blitzed some ice in the blender. Winning!

Stephen made a beautiful daisy chain that the kids took turns in wearing as a headdress. Gorgeous. It’s amazing how angelic they can seem! Sadly the daisy chain didn’t survive long but it was nice while it lasted.

Today started a bit different to normal as Stephen and I were booked in for COVID 19 tests. We wanted to rule out the possibility that we’d passing the virus back and forth between ourselves and the kids. We arrived at what would normally be a car park but was now more like a field hospital with white tents and shipping containers scattered about the place.

Genevieve did her Beaver challenge for the week – a Scouting colouring sheet for key workers and a labelled a map of the British Isles. She actually wanted to do this so it was easy for once.

Genevieve did some coding challenges for her Beavers including writing her own message in code and then decoding my wax message with blue paint. She really liked the wax resist idea so we will have to try that again.

I had to join a quick Zoom call for work. It was amusing as I had to mute my end because the kids were playing so loudly (although my team said how good that was – the cheeky lot!).

I was really hoping that Mr Johnson was going to announce last night that we could take our children to their grandparents’ house as part the relaxed lockdown measures. Unfortunately that is not what he said. I am disappointed.

The children introduced Stephen to their new game called “Rock Paper Scissors Beehive Shoe”. Stephen being Stephen, he couldn’t just leave it as a silly idea and pushed the children to come up with proper rules for the game.