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It’s been a day of getting things done

I exercised first thing this morning. Mornings are the best time for me to exercise; if I leave it until later in the day it gives me too much time to think up an excuse for not doing it But mornings are also quite a difficult time to fit in exercise, because Toby wants me quite a lot and I’m usually trying to get the others through breakfast and cleaning up afterwards without too much trauma. Today though, I somehow managed it, and felt very virtuous about it too

Then we all sat around the table in the conservatory and did some work. It’s really nice working in there: lots of light, and now that both leaves are in the table, it’s probably the biggest flat surface in the house too. There’s just the small problem of it being cold Actually I’ve recently put a small fan-type heater in there so we can use it to eat in the evenings, but there are radiators in there and if we’re going to use it more during the day, I might even turn them on I don’t suppose the extra energy consumed by the radiators in there would be balanced by not needing any lights turned on though, so it might be more economical to just keep using the fan-heater. Jack wrote lots of “f”s and drew lots of flowers, while the others did bits of science, geography and French (Barney); maths, English and geography (Henry); geography, French and writing stories (George) and maths and geography (Freddy). There might have been something else in there too, but I can’t remember what just now. The story that George wrote was particularly entertaining; all about a king, a hero with a pegasus, and something called a Nobgoblin

The afternoon was a bit less productive; I was tired (too much Kakuro-ing and not enough sleep) and Toby was grouchy so I went and lay in bed with him so he could sleep and I could rest. I collected Scratchy from work and we eventually got dinner on the table, then George went to Cubs. At 7.40ish, everyone else climbed into the nightmare MPV car, and we went to get George and left Barney and Henry at Scouts (and got a Scout shirt for Henry, much to his delight), then drove across the city to collect my new car :-D

Scratchy had to drive it home though, because I’m the only one who’s insured to drive the nightmare MPV hire-car He’ll have to drive it tomorrow too, when he’ll be off work and we have a special outing planned… there will probably be no post tomorrow, but lots of photos soon afterwards - watch this space