New friends and old ones.

Having been rather disappointed at getting a boring beige splint rather than a colourful cast or one you could draw on, M took matters into her own hands, using ribbon and some flat beads.

M's jazzed up splint.

On Friday our new neighbours moved into the house opposite and on Saturday the girls and I got chatting with the mum H and daughter L, who is M's age (just turned 9).  The conversation turned to schools, as it inevitable seems to when you talk about the ages of children, and H mentioned that they have not managed to get a school place sorted for L yet, at which K was practically jumping up and down with excitement and suggesting home ed!  H took it in very good part, although it's not something that they're considering for their family.

On Sunday afternoon K & M went to see if L would like to play, which she clearly did as they still hadn't come home a couple of hours later.  I went over the road partly to say please do send them home when you've had enough of them and also to say hello again and if I'm honest have a nose!  I ended up stopping and joining them in a new house glass of champagne.  They seem lovely and the children had clearly hit it off really well and were already asking about a sleepover by the time I dragged them home for tea.

Today we went to Nottingham University's Summer Scientist week for the third or fourth time (and sadly in K's case the penultimate time) and met up with old friend J & A, who were there for the first time.  We used to see them fairly regularly, but since A decided to give school a try, which is clearly working for her, we haven't seen them for a quite a while.  The girls didn't see much of each other during the session, as they kept disappearing upstairs to take part in the various experiments, but J & I had a good catch up.  J also came up with a good suggestion for M since she can't do the two days of gymnastics that she was supposed to be doing next week.  So now, while K is doing gymnastics, M is going to do some more drama, this time at Nottingham Playhouse with A.  I hadn't managed to come up with any ideas of what she and I could do and had anticipated a couple of days of a very glum M brooding on what she can't do at the moment, so I'm rather relieved to have this sorted!