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With less than two weeks to go before Barney and Henry leave for France, it’s proving a little difficult to organise things without actually thinking about them. Barney and I went shopping again this evening to find shoes for him - with Freddy in tow, because he needed new trainers too. I think we’ve got everything on the list now; I just have to actually find the list before I can be sure

Oh, and just before I continue, I’d like a small moan please. Barney really dislikes getting new clothes, new shoes, etc. In fact he only tolerates getting clean clothes, never mind new ones. So while he’s accepted that some shopping is indeed an essential part of the preparations for going to France, he’s keen to have it over and done with. So it doesn’t really matter what I suggest - he just says it’s fine. He disappears into the fitting-rooms and comes out ten minutes later to say that everything is excellent (translation: “so can we go now?”). It makes shopping for him very difficult.

Henry, on the other hand, is quite the opposite. He knows exactly what he wants, and won’t settle for anything else. So after visiting twenty different shoe-shops and having considered every possible design (it seems to me), he does a sort of verbal version of the Gallic shrug and says “Ah, I’ll wait.” It makes shopping for him very difficult.

But anyway. I did have a nice birthday, thank you to those who sent greetings My friend S came over with her children, and her four-year-old, on hearing it was my birthday, asked what my cake looked like. Well, you know, if you’re four, birthday=party=cake, right? We did have a small cake stashed, so when Scratchy got home everyone sang to me and the cake was cut and eaten.

Tuesday evening brought Beavers; we made thank-you cards for the police who arranged our visit to the station last week, and for the people at the marina we visited three weeks ago. I delivered the cards yesterday morning, then we all went to the library to return the many many books that we’d accumulated. I wish they’d just issue us with one card for the whole family; it would save me a lot of logging in and out on the library site to see what books we’ve got!

In the afternoon another local home-ed mum and her son came over to visit, and in the evening George went to Cubs, taking Henry with him, to talk to the Cubs about France, at the request of Akela. He also took his friend R, who lives across the road, but whose family is moving once they sell their house - they’re only moving a few minutes away, but George and Freddy aren’t very happy about them going. R had a great time at Cubs and plans on returning, so at least they’ll get to see one another once a week even if we (the parents) don’t manage to organise get-togethers.

Today was spent at our second home, aka the science centre. Blog-post and photos will follow later, once I’ve got myself a bit more organised