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Date: 31 March 2007 21:08:25
Aha... I think the third of the third three may have happened. Celebration time ;) Would you believe that Smudgelet was using the laptop this afternoon and discovered that Tiddles has been messing with it. Whether it is down to the latter or not, the thing locked, refused to give the new encyclopaedia CD-ROM back that I'd bought for Smudgelet to use, refused to close down refused to cooperate in any way, shape or form whatsoever. Still, it gave Smudgelet an unexpected treat in that I took the risk of letting him borrow my work laptop, a really swish and up-to-date model which he really rather enjoyed using. The other one is getting on in years, it has to be said, and was a hand-me-down from my brother when he upgraded, but it's a bit of a pain to be without it. But it focuses you in a bit on what classes as a need and what classes as a luxury, and we managed many a year without a laptop without any needless suffering.
Enough of the moaning, though. Today has been fun, and so was yesterday :D
Smudgelet had an interesting time with Honorary Auntie M this morning. For some strange reason they went to Thorntons. Goodness knows why. ;) Then he went with her to order flowers for the Easter Garden and to help build it too. He had a great time and she commented on what good company he was. On their return we noticed that it was about lunchtime and, seeing as I had money that was soon to be gone, I thought we ought to celebrate the fact and go out for lunch to the nearby cafe that had just re-opened for the season. And so we did. It was a rather long lunch - amazing how long an omelette and a tub of icecream can last when there's housework waiting for everyone at home!!!! We bumped into another old friend there too, and Smudgelet was sent on numerous research errands into the neighbouring garden centre, ostensibly to assess the various prices of tomato seeds and to purchase some for Honorary Auntie M, but also partly to buy us a bit of gossipping time without the draught caused by a pair of waggling earlobes! To his delight we also invested in some sunflower seeds and, thanks to a generous Honorary Aunt who provided a bucketload of potting compost, Smudgelet was able to plant them up in pots and put them in the greenhouse. Goodness, a greenhouse at Smudgie Towers actually used for growing things rather than just for storing them in! Wonders never cease. We have full expectations of them growing to be extraordinarily high, of course.
This afternoon I did some housework. Yes, housework. Not an excessive amount, you'll appreciate - well, I don't want to run the risk of becoming tooooooooo houseproud, do I? And I was rather engrossed in reading Smudgelet's school report which arrived through the post. Oooooooooh.... the delight of torturing the small boy by repeated sharp intakes of breath and occasional shaking of the head.... mwahahahaha. The general tenor of the reading? "He does really quite well in school... shame he's a bit too busy talking to do as well as he might!" What? Smudgelet? Surely not! ;)
He, meanwhile, spent the afternoon glued to the laptop, doing a self-motivated project on powerpoint of the trip we did yesterday. But let me take another blog space to bore you with tales of our adventures...