One down!

It's been a few days since my last post and we seem to have done rather a lot in that time!  A took a few days off work and on Wednesday, his last one before going back, he, K & M took me on my first go at geocaching.  We just went looking for a couple of very local ones, one successfully, one not (although I hadn't quite figured out the app on my phone, so hopefully we'll manage a bit better next time!).

On Wednesday evening K & I went to the ballet with friends, R & A.

A & K dressed up for the ballet!

It was Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty.  It departed somewhat from the traditional story and at one point K, who was sitting 4 seats away from me, next to A, got really rather worried and several times whispered rather loudly "Is it going to be okay?!"  Fortunately it was, since as K says, she's okay with sad, scary things when she's prepared for them, but not if they're unexpected.  We all really enjoyed the evening, the production was fantastic and the costumes gorgeous.  I'd be happy to take K to the ballet again if she was keen to go, but it did confirm to me that ballet isn't really my thing.

Most of the activities that K & M do stop during school holidays, but the two that don't, gymnastics and swimming are both on Thursday, so we had a fairly busy afternoon.  One of the books that I'd ordered arrived - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, so we had a bit of a look at that.

Today, K was up at 6.30am - I realise this may be the norm for some folks, but it really isn't normal here.  She was very excited about going to stay with Granny and Big Grandad for a couple of nights on her own for the first time and got up to pack.  Granny, Big Grandad and Uncle M all came for lunch and took K away with them shortly afterwards.

M and I had made plans, to soften the disappointment of being left behind (even though she knows that Granny and Big Grandad will be inviting her to stay on her own too).  We had a lovely afternoon with L & E, who have recently started HEing and who we met up with a month ago at a soft play place.  We'd been planning to meet up again before now, but unfortunately illness had got in the way.  We went together to Ferry Farm for the afternoon and had a lovely time.  M & E and a great time on the trampoline, the various obstacle courses (L & I had a go on some of these too) and in the soft play area.

We fed goats...

...and a llama (plus some donkeys).

We saw a *very* newborn lamb, so new that it was still wet.

And some slightly older triplets.

This mum had a bigger brood, but only one ventured out from under her.

Shortly before we came home (pretty much when they were about to close), there was a rather strange incident when a small boy came and asked me to help his mum, who was holding the tiny newborn lamb and which had slipped between the bars of the pen, but she was reluctant to put it back in the pen with the mother as she was stamping her feet rather a lot.  I took the lamb and quickly and quietly put it back in the pen with them mother, assuming (correctly as it turned out) that the mother was stamping at the woman rather than the lamb!

In other news, the seeds/beans that we planted at Asfordby a few weeks back are doing pretty well!  Unfortunately K's sunflower didn't make it, but M had lots and gave K one of hers.

M and K's sunflowers.

K's bean.

M's bean.