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Date: 21 August 2004 10:00:43
... may I very kindly use your toilet as Tiddles is busy blocking ours?"
I love my Smudgelet - he says the sweetest things!
We had a fantastic evening last night at the finishing celebration of the holiday club. Oh to be a child again! Isn't it funny how, as adults, we build in inhibitions which seem to stop us enjoying childish things, and yet we can get so much pleasure out of those childish things if we simply let go and enter into the spirit of them. Or is that just me? Having overcome my embarrassment at the suggestion that I should make a hat and parade it in order to win a mini-Milky-Way-bar (which then melted in my pocket in good "child again" manner), I had a great time decorating the thing with shooting stars and winning a snonge token for joining in. I got another snonge token for doing the actions to the song, too, and making everyone else join in singing "we're on a mission, mission, mission, mission, mission.. to find a miracle miracle miracle miracle maker". I decided discretion was the better part of valour, though, and declined to do the "circling arms in the air like a windmill" action on the grounds that it was rather a hot and sticky evening and I hadn't had chance to shower before going out.
Tiddles has a stye on the eye and looks as though he's been in a fight. I didn't touch him, honest! I did have fun dosing him with Andrews Salts, though, to stop him "blocking the toilet".... and as a side effect giving him bout of the burps sufficient to send him flying into outer space!
Talking of which, we went to the Planetarium on Wednesday - brilliant! We learned rather a lot, all three of us.. including the tip that youshould always take your raincoat in with you in case it pours with torrential rain as you come out! We also visited the Shipwreck museum (brilliant, unless you're accompanied by a disinterested seven-year-old) while Tiddles went to his Young Archaeologists meeting. I cannot sing their praises enough. For nine pounds a year he gets a magazine every quarter, a full day's activities every month, and activities every Wednesday through August. Amazing value, and such excellent activities that I ended up volunteering to be a stand-in adult helper if ever they need anyone. This time he was doing glass-painting and ..er... fish printing. Yes, I now have to do the final touches to the..er.. lovely t-shirt he has made by painting a fresh fish and printing with it onto the t-shirt front. MMmmmm...
Today is the Garlic Festival. Shall we go?