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Swimming at 9 this morning - and it’s amazing what a difference that extra half-hour makes The later time does mean that George has to hurry to get changed after his swimming lesson, because trampoline starts 15 minutes after the swimming lesson finishes. He managed this morning, which was surprising, to be honest, because the rest of this week has been a very difficult one with him - meltdowns at every turn

Barney caught up on some studying he hadn’t got to during the week - in fact he was already doing maths before they left for swimming this morning At one point after George got home, Barney was writing, George was planning a story, and Freddy was blogging

Later on I headed for the spare bedroom with the older three - having had everything I found on the floor chucked in there for the last few weeks, it was a bit of a disaster area. We’d resorted to bribery, and said that when it was all tidied, we’d buy the latest Harry Potter DVD, so they were fairly willing. In fact I was very impressed - all three got stuck in and we got far more done than I’d expected. Freddy in particular just got on with it; it’s interesting to watch him and George, because they have such different styles. George wanders about looking for something interesting to pick up, whereas Freddy just grabs a handful of whatever’s closest and walks around the room putting things where they go We didn’t completely finish, but we’ve sorted everything and now it just all needs put away - shouldn’t take much more than half an hour tomorrow. One factor in how much we accomplished was the fact that Jack wasn’t there “helping” - he and Scratchy had gone off to collect a freezer that came to us via Freecycle. We’ve had a small chest freezer for ages, but it just isn’t big enough anymore, and I’d posted a couple of weeks ago in case anyone had a bigger one they wanted to offload, or wanted to do a swop. I got no replies then, but today I got an email from someone who was just about to post her 14 cubic feet freezer on Freecycle, wanting to know if we’d found one yet, and would we be interested in hers - well no we hadn’t, and yes we would!

It was dark and raining heavily by the time they got home though, so it’s still in the back of the car