Cricket - in this weather!

This morning I dropped the girls off at Trent Bridge for their first ever proper cricket coaching session.  Given how wet it's been all day, it's a good thing that it was indoors!  I picked them up 3 hours later and fortunately, since they're going tomorrow and Thursday too, they had both enjoyed it, although K said she thought shorter session but more of them would be a better idea.  I had been slightly concerned, since neither has ever played cricket or done more than have a little go at A's cricket club with one of the dad's giving them some tips and that was just the once.  I suspected that most of the other participants would probably have been playing for a while and from what the girls told me that was the case, but it didn't seem to bother them.

I had a very relaxed and not particularly productive morning off, quite a bit of it in tears listening to the brilliant Olivia Coleman playing a mother with breast cancer in the Radio 4 drama Goodbye on iplayer.

After picking the girls up and having lunch, we watched another episode of Heidi together before doing some chores.  M cleaned the downstairs loo and sink and K did some hoovering, while I tidied up the kitchen, computer desk and kitchen table, mostly by dumping everything that wasn't where it should be on the kitchen table and letting everyone know they needed to put things away (and not just move them to other places that they don't live!) - it seems to have worked.

We have been planning to make some ice-cream, ever since K's didn't work very well at Fun Club at the beginning of the month, but hadn't got round to it.  So today, having bought some sealable plastic bags on the way home from dropping the girls at cricket, we finally managed it, and it worked really rather well.  If you want to have a go you need:
Half a cup of cream
2 tbsp of icing sugar
1/4 vanilla essence
a small sealable plastic bag
a large sealable plastic bag (or we used a clippit)
ice cubes - lots
salt - about 5-6 tbsp
Put the cream, sugar and vanilla in the small bag and seal it carefully.  Put the ice, salt and the small bag inside the big bag and seal it well.  Then shake well for 4-5 minutes.  Carefully take out the small bag, wipe off the salty water and take out the ice-cream and eat it!  It was very successful this time.

K's ice-cream.

And M's.