Socialising and stories

We had a trip to the library this morning, necessitated by a phone message that they had something in for M.  The something was a cd of a BBC adaptation of The Secret Garden which she'd been impatiently awaiting.  She still working her way through the book herself, but she has also I have since discovered got another book on the go at the moment, The Witch Baby and Me - After Dark, a series which has been introduced to by K.  Not content with that, this evening she started another book, The 101 Dalmations which K has just finished reading and clearly enjoyed since she's recommended it to her sister and started on the sequel.  It's quite common for K to have several books on the go at one time, but at the moment she's only got two, The Starlight Barking, as mentioned above, and Mistress Masham's Repose which is by the same author as The Sword in the Stone and K found in our Oxfam bookshop and bought.  It's not a book I know at all, but K tells me that she's put that one aside for the moment because it's too complicated and she's waiting until I've got my voice back (6 weeks of laryngitis and still no sign of getting my voice back!).

So much for the stories.  A friend, I, who lives a few doors down came round this morning with a T-shirt for each of the girls as a thank you for looking after their cats while they were on holiday in the US, and she asked if K & M were free to play this afternoon.  Since I wanted to play here and K & M both wanted to play at her house, they played for an hour here and then an hour there, which worked out rather nicely!
Then pretty much straight after that we had arranged to meet up with the new friend K had made last weekend at the park.  M was rather grumpy on the way, telling me she didn't want to play with anybody except K, while K was really excited about seeing A, her new friend again.  As it turned out A, her brother (another!) A, K & M all got on really well and had a great time together with some other new friends they collected along the way!  Meanwhile S, their mum, and I had a lovely chat and got to know each other a bit.  They've recently moved here from Spain, although S is from around here and her family are here, and I really hope that it could be the start of a friendship, rather than a friendly acquaintance, for me as well as for the girls.