Boomerang Boy
Barney went off to Scout Camp last night, as I mentioned yesterday. He isn’t due home until tomorrow. But this isn’t an ordinary Scout Camp: boys from many different packs camp together, and during the day they’re bussed off in groups (each group a mixture of boys from all the packs) to different locations to participate in a variety of activities.
Barney was bussed to our local leisure centre 
Scratchy went to play basketball there this afternoon, and was a bit surprised to hear someone yell over the balcony “Hey! Daddy!” 
He’s having a good time, apparently. Scratchy says he has bags under his eyes (heh, it’s the second day of Scout Camp, of course he does LOL), but he’s enjoying himself 
The others have mostly just hung out today, though George did some maths (measurements) this afternoon, and Freddy learned to tell the time. Yep, just like that. He had a vague idea of it being “something o’clock” when the big hand was at 12, but didn’t get that the small hand decided the “something”; now he’s got it all figured out, in both digital and analogue form. I sat about, since I can’t really walk yet; my foot is feeling better, though looking worse as the bruising increases. Toby also has a pretty bad bruise on the back of his head, though it doesn’t seem to be bothering him. Jack complained of a sore stomach this morning, brightened throughout the day, but got very whiny and pathetic and flushed around dinner-time. He made a valiant effort to eat, but only managed a very small amount of rice and a tiny bit of ice-cream before falling into bed. His breathing sounds a bit laboured now, but he’s asleep - probably the best thing for him.
The ice-cream came from the ice-cream van - they finally made it. Every night this week we’ve heard the chimes while we ate dinner - except for Wednesday, when they all stood at the door waiting, and it never came! But tonight it arrived just as we were finishing up - and I’ve never seen Freddy move so fast He bought ice-creams for himself and George, and they each gave a little bit to Jack. I don’t like to think about what Barney will do when he finds out they made it while he was away, after all that waiting
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