More bleurgh.

I have been feeling completely rotten since my last post.  Since having whooping cough a just over a year and a half ago, I think I'm rather more susceptible to coughs than I used to be and this is a particularly nasty one.

We had friends visiting over the weekend, so everyone else went out to the local park on the Saturday and then Rushcliffe Country Park on the Sunday.  We also introduced our friends to Forbidden Island, as well as playing The Big Fat Tomato Game, which we'd played when we called to see them on the way home from my parents' at Christmas.  They also brought a game with them, The Game of Life zAPPed, along with Mh's ipad which K & M really liked.

My lovely girls have been generally really helpful, both in letting me sleep in (til midday on Monday!), and doing more than usual around the house with no complaints at all.

Tuesday was Fun Club, where one of mums, C, talked to the children about the process of conceiving, designing, making and evaluating a product.  The children then designed and made their own item.  The brief was some kind of storage to go on a desk (although if they wanted to make something else, that was fine too).  Neither K nor M did much in the way of planning or designing and just dived straight into the making, but they both enjoyed it and were pleased with the end results.

M's desk tidy.

Since gymnastics is no longer on on a Tuesday, for the first time in ages we didn't have to rush off after Fun Club, which was good, as I'm not really up to rushing anywhere at the moment!  It was pancakes for tea (and breakfast and M even had cold ones for her packed lunch for that matter), then korfball for the girls.

This morning, K & I went out to the library, but M was so ensconced in the book she was reading (the first of the Charlie Bone series) that she decided to stay at home. There is a beautiful new exhibition in the library, by the local Embroiderers' Guild with some absolutely stunning works of art.

 K stayed to read, surrounded by the beautiful works, while I went and did some shopping.