Which leads me to…
Monday - Over to Home Ed group via filling the car up with petrol which prompted a conversation about why it needs it, where it goes and how it works. Which meant Monster is now in as much possession of knowledge about car engines as I am and will therefore need to get any further learning about such things from someone with a far greater idea about it than me - or I’ll need to learn with him. 
Home Ed group was fab as always, there was finger puppet making with lots of felt bits to glue on to the puppets, I’d brought some playdough, there was stewed apples to eat with yoghurt, painting. Oh and of course the requisite running around like loons shouting their heads off
Badgers for Monster in the evening where he chose not to join in with the making a group newspaper as they said he couldn’t bring it home to show us as it was a group piece of work and would have to stay there. He did a lovely card for me with a picture of he and I holding hands on the front, lots of ‘M for Mummy’s inside with his name written and plenty of kisses. 
Tuesday - Lucy came round with R &R, A worked from home and the children variously played, shouted, played and interupted Lucy and I. All good fun though. In the afternoon I had a phone call to offer me a job I’d had an interview for and been told I’d come a close second to being offered. Turned out close second was good enough when the first choice turned it down .
Wednesday An at home day with plenty of X boxing, geomagging, general wombling about and so on. Internet surfing for me and a lovely long chat with my friend Jim who moved to Ireland two years ago and is much missed.
Thurday - The local soft play centre to meet up with SIL, J & M, Em with R & E and Lucy with R & R (initial city!). We all had a fab time, the children get on well and simply disappeared into the brightly coloured foam blocks with the unmistakable aroma of socks, nappies and wet towels while the grown ups sat and had lovely long chats. We broke for lunch and then went back in again. Em and Lucy came back to my house for further playing. Monster and Em’s R went off to play castles and dragons and princesses, Teeny and Em’s E played with the dressing up but seemed to be more side by side than playing together.
Friday Over to Ali’s for the day. Had a lovely time there with the children doing all sorts of things including stickers and drawing, X boxing, general playing and plenty of furniture clambering and leaping.
Saturday A quiet morning with lots of drawing and X boxing, I walked to the post office and did some baking. After lunch we headed over to BIL & SIL’s where we went off for a walk round some nearby fields which had massive hay bales we all took turns at clambering on and jumping off (yes, adults included!).
Sunday - a ridiculously early start to go to Ernest from HEMUK’s sixth birthday pottery painting party. All had a fab time and it was lovely to catch up with several other friends there at the same time. A left us there for the night as he had an early start the following morning. Alison’s parents came over to join us in the evening and we had a great time combining adult chatting and laughter with children’s entertaining.
