A couple of relaxed days - catch up #4

After a couple of really rather full-on days, we didn't have much planned for the last couple of days at Granny's.  On Thursday we pootled round the charity shops in the morning, finding a couple of pairs of longish denim shorts for K.  We also bumped into J, who used to babysit me and my brothers when we were very little, until I was about 6 and we moved house, and had a chat with her.

K made a start on the worksheet that I had made for her on triangles to go with the Basher maths book we're working through.  She had correctly labelled the four different types of triangle (equilateral, isosceles, right-angled and scalene) and worked out some angles.

We had arranged to go for tea at Great Grandma's, which was lovely.  She's getting on a bit at 92 and does have a tendency to have the same conversation fairly regularly and we did start on one that we had only when we saw her on Sunday.  She was rather non-plussed when K pointed this out, so on the way home I suggested to the girls that it might be an idea to just go along with it, as clearly Grandma didn't remember and so it was interesting to her and didn't do us any harm!  We also had a look at some more photos that she has around, some of which were the same as the ones Granny had shown the girls earlier in the week, but some others too.

It was a lovely evening, so on the way home we stopped for the girls to have a play in the park before returning to Granny's for more Ruby Redfort.

At the playground.

On Friday I packed up and then we met up with Granny and Uncle M (who finishes work at lunchtime on a Friday) for a pub lunch before heading back home.  It took a ridiculously long time to get home, due to the horrible weather and the traffic, but we made it eventually!

On Saturday we went to see the girls' other grandparents, Nana & Little Grandad.  They live a bit further away, in North Wales and this was first time we'd attempted a daytrip to see them as we usually stop for a couple of nights at least.  An overnight stay, however, means a lot more work for Nana and she has more than enough to do as Little Grandad's full-time carer, although she is incredibly fit and active for her age, she is now 80, and his care needs are increasing, so it's getting ever closer to the point where residential care is inevitable.  We had a lovely day with them, playing a couple of games with Nana (Rummikub and Scrabble) and we went for a walk to the park.  A also had time to talk to his Mum and sort out various things that needed addressing.