While you're being read to...

You can do rather a lot when you're being read to, which is something that K & M would be happy for me to do all day, every day when they're in the mood. At the moment Dick King Smith is the author du jour and while Granny, who is staying for a few days, read to them this is what they were up to.

K doing a magnetic butterfly puzzle:

M did a couple of logic puzzles. First the one on the right, which I have never actually managed to complete without the cheat of checking which is the middle piece! Then 'Tantrix discovery', on the left, which she needed a little bit of help to get going with, you start with 3 pieces, then 4 and on the back it tells you what colour loop you are aiming to make. Once she got started she did the trickiest 10 piece one in probably about 10 minutes, although I wasn't timing it. The packet tells you that one takes about 25 minutes!

We took Granny out for lunch to Pizza Express today, and M did what she usually does when she can't decide what to have for pudding. She asked the waiter for a surprise between the ones she can't choose between. This time she really did get a surprise as he brought her both! The look on her face when she realised was an absolute classic. And both girls were very chuffed to get a pudding and a half each, since she shared it with her sister.