Making, baking and a birthday.

M & K have both made each other presents for M's birthday (and K's unbirthday from M).

A quilled door name plate.

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 M had chosen to go for a round of indoor adventure golf with friends which was fun, followed by a trip to the Dice Cup for games and tea.

We started off with some games that we'd played before, including:

A couple of rounds of Telestrations

A game of Dixit

Amidst eating, we had a few smaller games for few people going on.

Rhino Hero

The last game we played was the one that Matt had mentioned on a previous visit, as one that he thought we'd like.  He was right!  It's called Mysterium, and his description of it as a bit like a cross between Dixit and Cluedo was pretty good.  One person (or we had a team of two) plays the ghost, who has to give information about people, places and murder weapons to the rest of the players, who are pyschics, using only very non-specific pictures (dreams) as clues.  It took a while to set up, but with a helpful person to get us started that was okay and once you know what you're doing it's great.  We will definitely be playing this one again and M is going to be the ghost next time.

Mysterium

M has been baking quite a lot lately, including a chocolate orange cake specially chosen to take with us to share at Fun Club on Tuesday, as it's both gluten and dairy free so those with most dietary restrictions (including particular friends) could have some.  She also made some very good chocolate brownies and flapjack too.  Today I popped out to get a bit of shopping and came home to M in a very good mood who told me that she was inventing a cake.  She melted various things (including sugar, butter, golden syrup and chocolate) in a bowl over simmering water and stirred in others (definitely oats, possibly other things to), so seems to be a cross between a flapjack and chocolate cake, but I'll reserve judgement until I've tried it! 

At Fun Club the theme was 'well dressing', a fairly local tradition of making pictures using just natural materials, mostly leaves and petals, around wells.  The children watched an extract of a dvd about the tradition before making their own small versions on ice-cream tub lids.  It kept most of the children very engaged for quite a while, and K refused to have her lunch until quite a while after everyone else, because she wanted to finish hers.

K's tree is on the left, M's is a picture of a sunset with a cat looking at its reflection in water.

In with her birthday card from Nana, M received a letter in reply to the one she'd sent about her holiday.  I wasn't allowed to read M's letter, but Nana was happy to let us know about it.  She said that the spelling was a bit dodgy in places, but the writing was good and really conveyed M's enjoyment of the things she wrote about.