A splendid weekend

[ailbhe]

Saturday:

• Breakfast: Linnea spooned her own food from the bowl to her mouth as though she'd done it all her life.
• Snack: Linnea made it clear that highchairs are for babies and not for big girls. She ate at the dining table in the TotSeat and we decided to buy her a booster seat.
• Lunch: in the Fair Trade cafe, next to the Fair Trade shop, where I accidentally bought Linnea a spinning top and myself a jar of chocolate and hazelnut spread.
• Picnic: We picnicked in the park for no particular reason. Linnea climbed a hill and investigated a fountain.
• Dinner: We ate out in Bella Pasta, where Linnea had Mostly Red. She failed to share with the man in the white shirt sitting behind her, thankfully.

Sunday:

• We visited the GLOBE garden nearby, and received a free hanging basket with flowers. We applied for a key and put our names down on the waiting list for an allotment. It's a beautiful, quiet space, with plenty long grass and a lovely lawn. It's the size of many people's personal gardens, but much larger than ours, and we like it a lot.
• We went to town and had a picnic in a carpark! We ate outside the builders' merchants where we went to look at kitchens.
• There was a brass band in the park and we listened to it even though it rained. I knitted sitting on my coat under a tree.
• We walked home and nipped in to visit some friends, who loaned us a larger rucksack than the one we own.
• We ate dinner and I spoke to my mother on the phone for three quarters of an hour while Rob herded Linnea.
• We have begun to assemble the packing for Ireland.
• I have an octopus to send to Helen-Louise.

Comments

[k425.livejournal.com]

We picnicked in the park for no particular reason

You need a reason?

[ailbhe]

Of course not! We'd even already had lunch. I just thought the unreasoningness should be made clear.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Ah, now, that's a good picnic!