The postman rang twice..

..this morning. The first time he handed me a smallish cardboard box, the second time a plastic parcel. Inside were our Pairs in Pears and Bananagrams. Both K & M enjoyed having a go at playing around with the letters.

I think it was mostly M that came up with this and apart from a little bit of help with some of the spelling (elaphants, sistur, nugits) it was just down to her and K.

This one was just M's work, she would have continued but ran out of the letter 'S'.


Other than that we continued and finished Ballet Shoes and both K & M did some more cross stitch.
K at work...

And the two coasters she's made so far from the kit she had for her birthday.

Having finished reading Ballet Shoes, we talked about what we might move on to. Given that Shakespeare has cropped up in Ballet Shoes, (Pauline and Petrova take parts in both A Midsummer Night's Dream and Richard III) and they received a boxed set of Shakespeare stories for Christmas, we thought we might read some of them (although only the comedies, because K does *not* like sad things). We'll also be able to visit some of the Shakespeare places next time we visit my parents (I grew up about 10 minutes from Stratford-on-Avon).

After all that literature and craft we had a bit of a change and watched a few episodes of both Walking With Dinosaurs and the follow up Walking With Beasts and K watched the second Stargazing programme that was on the BBC recently and I recorded, while M & I played Bananagrams.