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It was a rainy cold Sunday here. I spent the morning preparing bits and pieces for Beavers investiture, which takes place the-Tuesday-after-next, but we need to have the Beavers practice some things this week. Scratchy made a huge pot of minestrone soup which we had for lunch - quite a spicy minestrone, but good for rainy day like today.

Henry’s parents phoned and he talked with them for a very long time, but there were no tears as there were last week. I think he was too busy nagging us to take him to Tesco so he could buy Yugi-Oh cards

After lunch some of the boys went out on their bicycles, but they didn’t stay out long - it was too cold and wet, I think. Henry fell and bashed his leg and his took a chunk of skin off the palm of his hand. I felt bad making him wince as I cleaned it up, but there was some gravel stuck under the remaining skin and it needed to come out. Their friend R arrived; he was here yesterday shouting because he’d left his Yugi-Oh cards here and he thought they were hiding them, but today he came to tell them he’d found them - in his pocket.

We’ve done hardly any formal work at all recently, so I sat everyone down with workbooks; Freddy was less than impressed at doing maths on a not-a-weekday; he manages to pick and choose the rules of life very selectively Once he got into it, he was fine. George found a question in his maths book that wasn’t written very well: one of those things that you think looks straightforward but when you take the question literally, it’s a different answer. Hence George wailing “I don’t know whether to multiply it by 32 or 33!” The book wanted him to multiply by 32, but actually he was quite right, and answering it as it was worded required multiplying by 33. Henry seemed to be having trouble with decimal fractions, but I think he’s got a hold on it now, and Barney did a page of stuff on congruence and similarity. Meanwhile Jack “read” some his Superphonics book with Scratchy.

We made a huge amount of food for dinner, and it’s quite astonishing how little of it was leftover In the evening, T, my Beavers co-leader came over so we could do some planning together, bringing her own children, so mine, who were on the verge of getting into bed, got their second wind and they all bounced about until they were just too tired to bounce any more. Meanwhile T and I got the planning done for Beavers up until Christmas, so feeling quite good about that

The only thing I wanted to do today that I didn’t get to was working out. I’ve been hovering at the same weight for over a week now, and I’ve really slipped in my exercise since mid-September. Really must make that a priority this week.