No time for learning

We've had a busy couple of days.  Yesterday, after a slow morning getting going, we headed on the bus into town and spent the whole afternoon there pretty much.  Much of the time we were thinking and planning for M's birthday and party, but we did also pop into Waterstones and while there I bought a book and K & M each built a lego model.  Although we haven't done much of our body topic lately, it does occasionally crop up in conversation and we may well get back to it at some point soon.  Something that I had noticed among our numerous reference books on the human body, is that there wasn't anything about epilepsy or dementia in any of them that I had found (admittedly I haven't read them cover to cover, but there was nothing in the index!).  Given that K & M have seen and are continuing to see the effects of these diseases in close members of our family, I wanted a book that at least touched on the idea of things going wrong in the brain.  This book did and when we got home, K sat down and read it pretty much cover to cover.

Today, we started on the process of making more wands.  One of them was essential, since I managed to lose the one that M had made for her friend D on the way to ice-skating ( my bag has a hole in it) and we're going to his birthday picnic on Friday, so she wants to give him one then.  Then this afternoon, C, who M invited to her birthday party on Sunday but who sadly can't make it (she would have been the only adult guest along with 7 children including M & K), came to make up for not being able to come to the party.  We had smoothie and various treaty nibbles (we'd got dairy & gluten-free things in especially for C and she brought some French fancies), showed C our holiday photos and played Destination Hogwarts.

So as you can see, we haven't really had any time for learning.  We have however had conversations about old money, decimalisation and wizard money, including doing some adding up of old money in shillings and pence.  This led onto talking about imperial measurements compared to decimal ones and me seeing how many different imperial units I could remember.  There was also comparing of prices of things as M decided she wanted to buy some Lego with some of her money and spend some of it on a treat for herself and K & M in Hotel Chocolat (we always go in when we're in town as they have tasting!), so she added up and worked out change of various options.  Then there was the question about the difference between jealousy and envy on the way to swimming this afternoon.  So really, who needs learning!?