Granny's here! And other things.

If we want to see Granny during the summer, we usually have to go and visit her, but since the bowls season is coming to an end she is now available to come and stay.  This morning we stayed in waiting for her.  K was keen to go to church as usual, but since M's a little bit under the weather and I woke up with a sore throat and stinking cold to add to my woes, she said she didn't mind.  Usually A's around if one girl wants to go to church and the other doesn't, but he had gone to Cambridge for a college reunion dinner, so it was all of us or none today.

You probably won't be surprised to hear that while we were waiting we played Phase 10, and Granny hadn't long arrived and we were eating lunch when A arrived home considerably earlier than planned as he'd got a lift with a college friend who was driving and didn't have to make too much of a detour to drop him off. 

After lunch Granny took K & M to the park, so A & I took the opportunity to talk birthday things while K was out.  K did some touch typing on the computer.  Having got 100% on lesson 1 she has finally moved onto lesson 2.  I have suggested that 100% really isn't necessary before moving on, but she's adamant that's how she wants to do it!

Meanwhile M got out some workbooks that rarely make an appearance, but Granny always asks about them.  Both girls will happily do things that Granny suggests that are met with a firm refusal if I do so.  I think M did a few pages of various workbooks orally with Granny before we got out Boggle Slam! to show her.  Granny, M & I all had a few goes, using our co-operative method, before K asked for some company.  She wanted to do some more of the logicbox game on the computer, M came too and we all worked together.  We eventually got stuck on level 6, (even though I had managed it previously on my own!) and agreed to go back and try again another time after we'd wrestled with it for quite some time.

We returned to the two experiments we had on the go.  While all three lots of ice were cloudy, the boiled, filtered, carefully poured ice was much less so than the other two.  The glass that was supposed to separate into three distinct layers has only two, but that led to a discussion about solutions and emulsions as well as density at the dinner table, so while it didn't do what it was supposed to we still got plenty out of it.

We also watched Twelfth Night again as K wanted Granny to see it and finished off the evening with a few episodes of Bagpuss.  I believe it is very important to share our cultural heritage with our children!