It was absolutely heaving, with very few parking spaces left
and no picnic tables, how am I supposed to enjoy a cup of tea while the little
monsters play with no table to sit at and to tie the dogs to!
Alex was having a bad day, and was feeling very tired and
emotional to start with, in fact I was tempted to give her away after the first
half an hour of moaning. Luckily the fresh air and wait for nanny to arrive,
seemed to get her into a much better mood, thank goodness.
There is a very real reason why Aidan calls my mum “sweety
nanny”, and after two chocolate bars from her bag I had to cut them off from
the sugar supply. This is usually a struggle with nanny smuggling them sweets at every opportunity, but today it was relatively east.
Aidan is currently very keen on ropes and spends every
moment he can playing with any rope he can get his hands on. Today the rope was
mainly used as a pulley system after he climbed a tree, and as a pull cord to
drag along a massive dead tree.
It’s amazing how a lad with no concentration, who struggles
at school, and won’t try at anything academic, can spend over an hour hauling a
dead tree stump up hills and over lumps and bumps. This activity was carried out to the extent that he even ended up with sore and blistered hands. At one point the lads even
combined the two activities and tried to haul the dead tree up to the top of a
very big and very much alive tree that they had climbed!
The girls opted for the much more sensible activity of riding
a large stick and pretending they were horses in need of sugar lumps and
apples.
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