Pootling about

We haven't 'done' much in particular the past couple of days, so I thought it would be quite interesting to see what we have actually done, if you see what I mean. We also have electricians in doing some re-wiring, so we've been a bit constrained.
Yesterday was our regular 'busy' day, which means piano lessons and swimming lessons (in which both girls swam 25m, I was given a bit of paper telling me, which I could have exchanged along with some money for a certificate or badge, but being a skin-flint I refuse to do this!). Apart from that we went to the library, which is a rather small temporary one at the moment, while the proper one gets a major re-build/renovation. M seems to only want to get Dick King Smith books out at the moment and couldn't find any she doesn't have/hasn't read, so came away empty handed. K found a dvd she wanted to watch, and after contemplating for while, decided that it was worth the £1 that it cost to borrow.
Today we had to pop out first thing to get some milk, so I could offer the workmen a cuppa, but in the end didn't as I couldn't boil the kettle when we got back because they'd turned the sockets' circuit off! The girls set themselves to box modelling and M fashioned herself a backpack made of a cereal box and some ribbon, which K was so impressed with she made herself one too.
A text prompted a trip to a friend from church to try on a First Communion dress, which didn't fit her more solidly constructed daughter, but was fine for K, so that's that sorted. We walked home along a short stretch of the still mostly frozen canal and identified some tracks in the snow. They were mostly human, but some dogs' and the birds' we deduced were the moorhens, as they weren't webbed.
Once home we had a picnic (K made her own sandwich) while watching the dvd that K borrowed from the library yesterday, The Fox and The Child, which sparked some interested discussion about seasons, habitats, wildlife and the relationships between people and wild animals. M did some knitting while watching and K did some more box modelling. Then it was time to tidy up a bit before taking K to her ballet lesson. M started disecting another owl pellet, I'd forgotten we had, while K was there. Then after tea there was just time for M to watch an episode of Walking With Dinosaurs, while K did a bit more tidying, before bed and story time.