just another morning here

Could only mean one thing … and lo and behold it did

Turnips are 515 in Avalon

I can talk about Animal Crossing to my heart’s content, and there are people who are interested!

Nice to be home, even if it is still as messy here as when I left it [wasn't that why Steve stayed at home? ;)]

Must just mention this fantastic game that I played with Esther and Ben last night, Jungle Speed - like a cross between Snap and Set, well worth checking out, great fun.

Stopped off at Heather’s on the way back and spent a lovely couple of hours having lunch and catching up together, some lovely music sharing included Won’t mention the not so lovely kind

Since being home the children have hama beaded for ages, then after tea watched some boring documentary about snakes! Well, I thought it was boring but Anna was riveted - she has a habit of logging into our lovefilm account and adding some very strange films to the account Now watching one of our choices (really enjoying it so far) and catching up on the week.

It’s June, so that means loads of new fish and insects in AC:WW … so far I’ve only caught a firefly and a mosquito, must make some more time to play tomorrow

Loving Trauma Center Although it is very stressful, and I’ve only done an hour of the game! Had a very frustrating time with the magnification tool last night (couldn’t get it to work *at all*!) then read up about it and started drawing a ‘c’ instead of a closed circle, and that’s working perfectly. Keep forgetting the order of procedures though so I’m pretty rubbish as a doctor, good thing it’s only a game, eh?

Um, other than that I’ve hardly done anything worth blogging about. A load of washing at home. Not much work, coffee with a friend, lunch with Steve, then home again. Steve went back to work after picking the kids up from school, while I had a nice few hours with the children at swimming lessons/in the van, reading books, having tea, and playing AC:WW - they’ve all created their own characters in a town now so we’ve been travelling between the two towns a lot which is just fun

Been playing the Stalk Market on AC:WW (see tip 11 here!) …. this week had huge excitement at a turnip price of over 200 bells on Wednesday, so rather than risk wi-fi cutting out (as it is prone to do in the evenings, because that’s when all the US kids come home from school and Nintendo WFC gets clogged up!) I met a friend in real life to sell turnips. Sad but true. Turnips tend to cost around 100 bells on a Sunday, and I’ve not had any prices higher than 180ish to sell them at so far, so over 200 seemed really good, and I sold them all.

The next day turnip prices in his town were 311 bells - and today, mine were 429!!! The blimming game must *know* when you’ve sold them all.

So, Marg, this should explain that last sentence a little bit … and might even pull my other sad AC:WW comrade out of lurkdom here Heck, I am going to have to start an Animal Crossing blog so that my sad tendencies don’t spill over into this one … any more than they already have

Such a mad day I will have to amend the time of blog-entry to make this appear on the right date!

Started off this morning by helping Steve at work, running errands with kids in tow.

Home for a quick coffee for me, while the children played with Mollie and did their music practice.

Back out (via the cinema to get Orange Wednesday 2-4-1 tickets for Narnia) to our Home Ed groups’ joint Christmas party. A well attended affair including a party lunch, storytelling session, gift giving and opening and enjoying, then carol singing and lantern procession around the park! We were there until around 5pm when we went to extract Steve from work and take him to the cinema.

Loved the film. I wasn’t sure I was going to, and I’m not going to attempt to review it at all as there are plenty of reviews out there already. But I liked it - I liked the ‘magical-ness’ of the story which I think they did a great job translating into film. The cast were brilliant; there were a couple of moments where the special effects seemed less good than others, but the main animal characters were exceptionally well done. The battle scene, we realised on the way home, was interesting because there wasn’t a drop of blood spilt (or very little, at least!). Still not quite sure it tops the animated version for me personally, but they are such different films from different eras so you really can’t compare them. If Disney/New Walden Media are planning to make the entire series I will be thrilled, does anyone know if they are?

Once home and the children were in bed it was an early night for us, too. Well, it would have been early for me until I started chatting online on Animal Crossing, where the Wild World has become a small world - wi-fi means you meet people by playing across towns with your characters, and somehow I’ve managed to meet a someone who’s as sad as me - obsessed enough to buy AC:WW before it’s even released in this country, then play it obsessively too. I got Nookingtons (with added hair salon) first though! Bizarrely, my new found friend actually lives nearby in real life, so one of these days we’re going to have to meet up and play AC without worrying about the network dropping out!

Still no photos of the new hamster but Abbie did have him out of the cage this evening and he seems quite settled and still very cute. Will get Steve on the case today