Wintery weekend
Not a terribly interesting weekend in our house, really.
Orchestra doesn’t start until next Saturday, so I took the opportunity to go to the meeting of the chorister parents’ association on Saturday morning while Josiah was at rehearsals.
After that we came home to find that Steve and the girls had only just surfaced, lazy things! Joe did some piano and tidied his room before his friend came round to play. The girls took practically all day to tidy their room!
Music practices were noisy … Abbie drumming along to Greenday upstairs while Anna accompanied Josiah downstairs, then Anna went up to accompany Abbie’s flute … and that was only before the outing to the sweet shop! They finished off afterwards, and had tea, before settling down to an evening of crafty stuff while Steve and I went out for our anniversary dinner at the Conservatory 
On Sunday we woke to more snow falling, and had to be up early for Josiah to go and sing. The girls thought they had a sound rehearsal at Panto but in fact it was just a setting up day and they didn’t have to be there, so they went over to visit Grandma and Grandpa instead. Anna wanted to discuss Professor Layton puzzles with Grandma!
Steve and I decided to go out for a walk in the snow, geocache involved of course! We popped in for coffee with Neil & Ivonne, which was lovely. Then picked the boys up from the Cathedral (we share lifts with another family!), back home to drop one boy off and let the other one get changed, then back to Grandma & Grandpa’s for lunch. Stew and dumplings – the perfect cold day dinner! The kids had a fab time in the snow in their garden, too
Home for music practices (all three children are trying to do 100 days of practise on all instruments, which *is* a bit of a logistical nightmare at times!); Abbie played with Mollie and another panto friend who was round, the girls shopped on the Boden sale website, and then later on we snuggled up with nibbly pic’n'mix tea in front of a film.
Somehow the snow just makes being inside together feel lovelier than usual, it’s been fab
Finally. Wintery or Wintry? Which is correct and why?! Been dithering between which to title the post with and now they both look odd …
January 10th, 2010 at 20:37
I’d say wintery as you have gone for. You wouldn’t write summry instead of summery…
January 10th, 2010 at 21:00
Wintery seems right to me.
Great to see you today!
January 10th, 2010 at 21:40
Wintery.
I’ve had the most glorious of weekends thanks to the snow and everything else slowing down.
January 10th, 2010 at 21:54
Wintry.
How does 100 days of practice work? Is there a reward? How is it monitored?
January 10th, 2010 at 22:17
The BBC uses wintry. I prefer wintery. It’s one of those words where they are both correct. Grrr at the English language at times!
January 10th, 2010 at 22:18
Organisation or organization? I’ve just realised I use a ‘s’ when I type the word but a ‘z’ when I write it. How weird is that!
January 10th, 2010 at 23:10
Wintry. And words like that are spelt with an s.
Dinner looked very nice
C and I thought about going out on Wednesday but lots of things were closing early in town due to snow so we decided against it. Will have to try again on his birthday 
January 11th, 2010 at 6:36
Jan, we have charts with 100 little circles to colour in (I’ll get them online one of these days) and yes, there is a financial incentive
January 12th, 2010 at 15:38
I would have said ‘wintry’ personally, but since I have been picked up on the word ‘definitely’ and ‘a lot’ lately, it seems I am not the spelling expert I considered myself to be!