just another morning here

Don’t feel like blogging really. This morning we had the second ambulance in the space of four days up the close, one elderly neighbour is very ill in hospital, and today’s incident was the sudden death of another neighbour, doubly sad because his mentally disabled son had obviously not had a clue what to do about it and just carried on living as usual for a day or so after it happened, until another neighbour realised.

Meanwhile life goes on and we had a beautiful moment in our day too; Robyn was with us until the early afternoon when Em and Adam came to pick her up. Lovely to watch Robyn see Adam again after such a long time apart In fact, really sweet – she took a minute to get used to him again but then she soon started treating him like her favourite long lost playmate, she’ll have him wrapped around her little finger in no time at all, I guarantee

Somehow they (E & A) managed to get a rather lovely picture of the two of them onto the front of our local paper (this link only good on Nov 20th I imagine! Piccie is very small but you get the idea) tonight, part of a ‘Devon & Dorset regiment back from Iraq’ thing.

We went to Sainsbury’s and sorted out stuff for our Christmas Child boxes, as well as normal food shopping. Came home and wrapped boxes, then took a couple of parcels to the post office.

Josiah did some violin, some maze puzzle things from an adventure maze book, some more music theory, changed the vinegar in our ‘egg in vinegar’ experiment, and then we spent a while playing Pictionary together – well, after a fashion! We just took it in turns to pick a card and choose one of the things on it to draw – fascinating to watch Joe’s thought processes. He was quite good at the drawing, too, although I’m not sure he’s ready for a full blown game yet, we weren’t using the timer! Nice to have some ideas for different drawings though. Must remember about Illustration Friday more often!

When the girls got home from school we went off to swimming lessons; home for tea, and now they’re sitting planning for a joint birthday party that I have resigned myself to …

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