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I love this hot sunny weather!

On Monday we did a bit of work in the morning, but not much. Then the boys played outside for most of the rest of the day, while I read emails and blogs - all with Toby in my arms though, so not much commenting going on.

Monday evening brought jujitsu; Freddy was convinced that he was doing his first grading, Scratchy was convinced that wasn’t until next week. Freddy was right, and came home proudly bearing his certificate and his new belt

Today the oldest three were booked into a “Come and Try Day” at the leisure centre. The day didn’t get off to a great start when George wandered into my room and said “Do I have to go to the leisure centre?” (Answer: yes, you *** do - you said you wanted to and I’ve paid for it!) but that was only a temporary hiccup. They were there from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., and in that time they got one hour on each of five different activities: tag rugby, trampolining, soccer, cricket and hockey. Lunch was also provided, so that made for a very easy day for me All of the activities except trampolining were outdoors, so they were all hot and sticky and exhausted when I collected them afterwards - but they all said they’d had a good time, and when I asked if they wanted me to check if there was room on the other Come and Try Day, they all said “yes” without hesitation. And there was, so they’re going back on Thursday to do it all again

As for me - with only two children, I didn’t know what to do with myself So I invited a friend over One of her children has a tendency to… er… well, let’s say he takes “getting into things” to a new dimension - so we all went outside and locked the patio door behind us The kids could get into the conservatory, but not the rest of the house, which made for a much more lazy relaxed day for the adults, who sat on the patio and chatted, with occasional forays indoors to deal with children’s needs for food and drink and other facilities

On the way home from the leisure centre, a request had been placed for ice-cream, so after dinner Scratchy went off to the shop. We originally thought to buy cones too, but then I thought that ice-cream sandwiches, with big soft chocolate-chip cookies, would be good. They didn’t really work though, as the ice-cream was too soft - but messy or not, they tasted good Despite that, we discovered later in the evening that the kids had raided the leftover junk from Sunday’s party, and lollipops were retrieved from under various pillows and mattresses

I’ve had a headache all day - I’ve been waking up with a headache nearly every morning recently; I don’t know what’s going on. Today’s eased a bit during the day but was back with a vengeance by early evening, so I took myself off to bed after the ice-cream, and fell asleep for two hours. My friend H says I need to eat more lemons; if I’d thought of it, I’d have asked Scratchy to pick some up at the shop this evening. I do always drink lots of water, but maybe I need to up my intake even more. I tried today to stick with fresh fruit and veg all day until dinner - for breakfast I made a fruit smoothie, for lunch I had lettuce (which I could claim was home-grown, but it would be a lie slight exaggeration, since we only bought the plants on Saturday ;-))

The weather forecast for tomorrow is hotter and sunnier than today, but after that it’s going to get cooler and cloudier again, so we plan to make the most of it. Hence my inflatable birthing pool has been retrieved from the garage and inflated, and is currently sitting on its side in the conservatory (and the door between conservatory and kitchen is shut, to keep the cats from exploring the pool LOL) The plan is to fill it tomorrow morning, and by the time it gets hot, the water in it should bring a welcome relief and plenty of fun