Playing catch-up
Haven’t blogged properly since last weekend, and since this weekend is almost upon us, I think it’s time I got on with it!
Barney came home from Scout Camp very cheery, having had a lot of fun and plenty of physical activity. We stopped on the way home and picked up more fish - which turned out to be a bad move, as I thought our tank was ready, and it turned out not to be…hence we spent the next three days doing lots of water changes and fishing several dead fish out of the aquarium :-\ We seem to be over that now though, we’ve lost no more fish since Tuesday lunchtime. I also discovered that someone I see every week (when the boys do archery) is something of an expert, as she makes her living setting up and maintaining aquariums (aquaria?) for businesses, leisure centres etc.
The boys have all done lots of “work” this week - Scratchy is off most of next week revising for his exams, so we’re going to take off out of the house each day, so they’re trying to get ahead of themselves. They’ve also had the usual rounds of Ju-jitsu, Circus Skills, Beavers/Cubs/Scouts, archery, dance and - finally found the right place! 
- St John Cadets - which Barney enjoyed very much. And we solved our Tuesday-night-driving-everywhere dilemma; we discovered that the library across the road from the Scout Hall is open until 8pm on Tuesdays, so Scratchy left Toby, Jack, Freddy and me there and took Barney and George to Circus Skills, and we hung out there until it was time for Beavers. Scratchy stayed until he’d picked up Barney and George again, and then came back for us. So that was a much more peaceful and pleasant system than driving-back-and-forth-with-crying-baby 
Have been unimpressed by the response I’ve had from people who I had hoped might be willing to work on a project which will affect all of us…will make another post about that (and if you don’t see it, it will be because you’re not signed in!)
The kids wrote letters to Santa (example already posted), and Toby got a bit more grown-up 
I’m sure there’s loads I don’t remember now, which is why it’s such a bad idea not to blog more frequently!
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