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ailbheFriday: We went into town to buy knickers for me, tights for Emer, and warm winter dungarees for Linnea. We failed to find tights but other than that we did pretty well. Linnea and I shared a sausage in a bun under the shelter of John Lewis' awning, and we had a pretty good time on the bus, too. After town we headed off to ERAPA, where there was almost no-one else due to the rain. Linnea met up with some of her favourite minions and played madly; then the older kids went off to a philosophy discussion group and the younger ones made shakers with chickpeas and rice and plastic cups and eggboxes and elastic bands and sticky tape.
We came home on the bus with another family, and when we got here there was loads of post, including two new slings for me and Emer (another post about slings later, I hope). I haven't the faintest what we had for dinner, but it was quick and easy and, importantly, cooked by Rob.
Saturday: We all slept in, and then went to the Farmer's Market in the trike to get more sausages in buns, and I picked up some nice pesto - pre-made pesto without parmesan is very hard to find. Then, painting in the town hall. We bumped into H & F & B just outside the door, so Linnea and F started off painting together; F ran out of interest after about 20 minutes, though, so they vanished somewhere and Linnea kept at it for almost an hour more. I waited in the nearby cafe, drinking tea, reading Livejournal, and feeding Emer. Rob and Linnea came to find me when she'd finished painting, and Linnea presented me with a bracelet made of plastic beads threaded on wire (a pipecleaner!) so I melted into a tiny puddle of goo and showed it to everyone in the vicinity. She's never made anything with beads unaided before. All Rob did for this one was to twist the ends together when she'd finished threading.
Then we pootled off to Tescos for some lunch, and while Linnea and I were finishing up Rob triked back home to collect the honeymoon kite. And we spent about an hour kite-flying, during which time I saw Rob get a kite to fly for the first time since we met (flying in the steady, reliable wind from a fast-moving ferry on the honeymoon doesn't count, though it was exceptionally cool). Linnea quite enjoyed it. After kites, we headed for the Hindu festival on the Thames promenade, where Rob and Linnea went on the dodgems, Linnea went in a spinning teacup, we all ate samosas, and we missed all the music acts though we did glimpse one act rehearsing. There was a police stall which gave us a booklet on improving home security and a sticker with "We do not buy or sell at this door" which I must remember to put up. I hate answering the door to find it's people trying to sell me things I don't want when I'm mid-nappy change or whatever.
We went to Waitrose after that, and on the way home found that the lights on the trike are a bit dodgy. They'd worked earlier in the day, but there seems to be something loose in the dynamo; they flicker on and off. So I shone a torch out the front and we went carefully home on the shared-use cycle/footpath, and one quiet road. Ugh.
Linnea fell asleep on the way home so we put her to bed - in the same nappy she'd had on almost all day.
Sunday: Rob and Linnea went swimming, and then we had lunch and piled into the trike again. This time we managed to get tights for Linnea, before going to King's Meadow again for more kite-flying. We put up the diamond-shaped kite, which had a very short line (35m) but flew very easily. The string for the one we flew on Saturday was too tangled to use again, because while I was telling Rob how to get it up in the air I forgot to tell him how to wind it so it wouldn't tangle. Oops. The diamond-shaped kite has no spool, but a funny shaped plastic handle, so you can wind the string in a skein, which is great for not tangling but awful for letting it spool out and go higher.
When we got home I started untangling the string; it's now untangled but needs to be properly wound back on the spool.
Monday: Rob went to work, and Linnea and I went into the garden and hung laundry, played in a sandpit full of rainwater, came in, Linnea had a bath (during which I noticed that part of her bottom has had a layer of skin actually chafed off, though she swears it doesn't hurt - but this is the child who never notices a graze and didn't even cry when her elbow was pulled badly enough that she couldn't use her arm for a day), I sorted clean dry nappies, changed Emer, gave Linnea her snack, emptied the dishwasher, cleared the kitchen counters, made lunch, filled the dishwasher again, served lunch, and wrote this post.
I have also been telling Linnea a lot of stories about a little girl called Linnea and a little boy called Dylan. She hasn't asked for any stories about Linnea and another little girl yet. I notice that most of my stories start off with transport, because it's an easy way to buy time while I think of a plot point ("And then they rowed and rowed and rowed the boat, singing 'Row row row', all the way to the...").
Posts still to make: Slings, C-section recovery
We came home on the bus with another family, and when we got here there was loads of post, including two new slings for me and Emer (another post about slings later, I hope). I haven't the faintest what we had for dinner, but it was quick and easy and, importantly, cooked by Rob.
Saturday: We all slept in, and then went to the Farmer's Market in the trike to get more sausages in buns, and I picked up some nice pesto - pre-made pesto without parmesan is very hard to find. Then, painting in the town hall. We bumped into H & F & B just outside the door, so Linnea and F started off painting together; F ran out of interest after about 20 minutes, though, so they vanished somewhere and Linnea kept at it for almost an hour more. I waited in the nearby cafe, drinking tea, reading Livejournal, and feeding Emer. Rob and Linnea came to find me when she'd finished painting, and Linnea presented me with a bracelet made of plastic beads threaded on wire (a pipecleaner!) so I melted into a tiny puddle of goo and showed it to everyone in the vicinity. She's never made anything with beads unaided before. All Rob did for this one was to twist the ends together when she'd finished threading.
Then we pootled off to Tescos for some lunch, and while Linnea and I were finishing up Rob triked back home to collect the honeymoon kite. And we spent about an hour kite-flying, during which time I saw Rob get a kite to fly for the first time since we met (flying in the steady, reliable wind from a fast-moving ferry on the honeymoon doesn't count, though it was exceptionally cool). Linnea quite enjoyed it. After kites, we headed for the Hindu festival on the Thames promenade, where Rob and Linnea went on the dodgems, Linnea went in a spinning teacup, we all ate samosas, and we missed all the music acts though we did glimpse one act rehearsing. There was a police stall which gave us a booklet on improving home security and a sticker with "We do not buy or sell at this door" which I must remember to put up. I hate answering the door to find it's people trying to sell me things I don't want when I'm mid-nappy change or whatever.
We went to Waitrose after that, and on the way home found that the lights on the trike are a bit dodgy. They'd worked earlier in the day, but there seems to be something loose in the dynamo; they flicker on and off. So I shone a torch out the front and we went carefully home on the shared-use cycle/footpath, and one quiet road. Ugh.
Linnea fell asleep on the way home so we put her to bed - in the same nappy she'd had on almost all day.
Sunday: Rob and Linnea went swimming, and then we had lunch and piled into the trike again. This time we managed to get tights for Linnea, before going to King's Meadow again for more kite-flying. We put up the diamond-shaped kite, which had a very short line (35m) but flew very easily. The string for the one we flew on Saturday was too tangled to use again, because while I was telling Rob how to get it up in the air I forgot to tell him how to wind it so it wouldn't tangle. Oops. The diamond-shaped kite has no spool, but a funny shaped plastic handle, so you can wind the string in a skein, which is great for not tangling but awful for letting it spool out and go higher.
When we got home I started untangling the string; it's now untangled but needs to be properly wound back on the spool.
Monday: Rob went to work, and Linnea and I went into the garden and hung laundry, played in a sandpit full of rainwater, came in, Linnea had a bath (during which I noticed that part of her bottom has had a layer of skin actually chafed off, though she swears it doesn't hurt - but this is the child who never notices a graze and didn't even cry when her elbow was pulled badly enough that she couldn't use her arm for a day), I sorted clean dry nappies, changed Emer, gave Linnea her snack, emptied the dishwasher, cleared the kitchen counters, made lunch, filled the dishwasher again, served lunch, and wrote this post.
I have also been telling Linnea a lot of stories about a little girl called Linnea and a little boy called Dylan. She hasn't asked for any stories about Linnea and another little girl yet. I notice that most of my stories start off with transport, because it's an easy way to buy time while I think of a plot point ("And then they rowed and rowed and rowed the boat, singing 'Row row row', all the way to the...").
Posts still to make: Slings, C-section recovery
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Date: 2006-10-09 01:30 pm (UTC)There've also been art lessons from a professional illustrator (I think), and there are plans afoot for a writers' workshop. Space is limited though so until the philosophy group stops meeting we need to find more space.
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