Puffin Post: Good and bad.

When we got back from visiting Nana and Little Grandad among the post waiting for us was a rather lumpy envelope addressed to M.  After some discussion about whether she should open it, as it might have contained a Christmas present and we don't open them until Christmas, she did and found this...

and this!

She had entered a competition to win a Lego Harry Potter figure (it's not clear on the photo, but there is a scar on his head!), because she wanted to give it to Daddy for his birthday.  Well it was about a month late, but we knew it would be so that didn't really matter, but she did indeed do so.  As I mentioned here, to enter the competition you had to make a model out of Lego and send in a photo, I wasn't allowed to post the photo on blog at the time in case people stole her idea, but have now been given permission.

It's a giraffe on rollerskates!

The very bad news about Puffin Post is that it is no more.  We are all very sad about this, although from that link it's not entirely clear whether it will continue in some form from a different source.  I really do hope so, because the delight of K & M at the arrival of the magazine and the decision about which book to choose has been lovely to see.

In other news, I went to bed at about quarter to midnight last night to find K still awake and playing Trivial Pursuit with herself on her bedroom floor!  Unsurprisingly she woke rather late this morning and has looked rather tired all day, although given the 2 hours of gymnastics and half an hour of swimming, she's held up remarkably well.  Her bedroom light was off when I had a look at just gone half nine tonight, which is when she's 'supposed' to turn her light off, although in practice it's rarely before ten as she's usually engrossed in a book.  Fortunately we don't have to worry about getting up for the school run really!