Settling back down.

Our trip back in time obviously really tired out the girls as we've had a couple of very late mornings, even by our standards.  The following morning, M woke up just before 9 (having slept with me because she was a bit overtired and fragile and when she asked I thought it was probably a good plan), I woke up half an hour later and K didn't wake up until M and I went in to check on her at half past ten!  K & M had gymnastics and they both achieved  Level 5 of the British Gymnastics Proficiency Awards (it goes from 8 to 1).

On Friday, I was up before both K & M, a very rare occurence and they didn't emerge until well gone half past nine.  We looked after my friend S's 10 month baby for the day, while she went to a wedding in these parts.  K & M aren't generally particularly interested in babies, but despite it being the first time we'd met, G settled in very easily and was a happy chap.  It was lovely to get my sling out when we went out, when we went out too.  We did manage a game of the Harry Potter Trivia game, which we're planning on giving back to C & D who lent it to us next week and a chapter of Charlie Bone (we're now on book three), while G was napping.  It was lovely to see S, albeit fairly briefly, as with 6 children between us, we don't manage particularly often, although it helps that she has relatives that she and her tribe stay with not far from my parents. 

Yesterday evening, I spotted that something at the cinema that I had been meaning to look into was on for the last time today.  It was a showing of The Globe's production of Twelfth Night, with Stephen Fry as Malvolio.  I woke the girls up at about nine o'clock this morning to ask if they were interested, it had to be all three of us or not at all, as A plays cricket on a Saturday during the summer, happily both were.  It tied in nicely with our Tudor day, as it was an all-male cast as it would have been in Shakespeare's day.  We all enjoyed it very much - K gave it 9.5/10, equal with the RSC production we saw in Stratford last year.  I thought it was really interesting to see the differences and the relationship between Orsino and Cesario/Viola was developed brilliantly, seeing Orsino's attraction to a boy and his struggling with that made much more sense of his very quick acceptance of Olivia's marrying Sebastian and his turning to Viola.  Stephen Fry was a brilliant Malvolio and Mark Rylance was fantastic as Olivia.  Since it started at midday, we had a cake in the cafe before hand to keep us going as we didn't manage lunch until half past three.  Over pizza, we talked about the play and also about Kentwell, about all the new things we'd learned there.  An ice-cream and a play in the fountain in Market Square finished off the afternoon nicely.