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Date: 30 May 2004 19:21:00
It feels like the end of a lovely Sunday. Is it really only seven o'clock? Can I go to bed now, please? I mean, the Smudgelets are snoozing away, looking incredibly sweet as they always do when asleep. They were both extremely tired today after their late night yesterday - almost eight o'clock, I ask you! - and we've had tears from each of them during the day so an early night was a must.
It was my friend B's 70th birthday today. When I told Smudgelet it was a special birthday, he asked open-mouthed whether B (his godfather) was going to be 100. I replied "nearly" and Smudgelet added that he knew he must be nearly 100 as he was so much older than grandad. Naturally I was extremely reluctant to pass this on when I saw B this afternoon - I resisted for all of five seconds!
The boys are really getting into gardening, despite having let all their seedlings die! Today we went to the garden centre and bought them some gardening gloves and some extra child-size tools so they don't have to share (fight over) Tiddles'. Heaven help our poor garden! We discovered once again that elder is an irritant, (The elder bush, I mean, not the elder child. After all, they're both irritating in their own way!), and that brambles have rather sharp and persistant thorns.
We were late for church again. My fault this time, for a change. I ... er... forgot we were in a hurry and just drove like a Sunday driver out for a spin rather than a Sunday morning driver late for church. It was an excellent service, really made me think. Then the Smudgelets made a two-pronged attack on the assembled congregation in search of sponsors. Smudgelet got a little confused on the meaning of sponsorship - he reckoned as they'd raised £100 he'd be able to use it to buy a new bike!
How's this for a way to end the day? We sat out in the sun at a local cafe, drinking banana milkshake and sharing two Icecream Sundaes with three different flavours in each: white choc and honeycomb, raspberry pavlova, vanilla, strawberries and cream, caramel, and triple choc, Mmmmmmmm. And as we were eating a beautiful yellow aeroplane came into sky above us, with a vapour trail of brilliant blue, and began a spectacular display of aerobatics, totally free of charge. My only fear was for Smudgelet's aim with the icecream while gazing up into the sky!
So now for a rest, I think, then see if my laptop will run the Church of Fools. My PC is dead AGAIN and the computer firm are moving office this weekend and thus incommunicado. I can't get at my emails from here, nor the mad tour site (goodness knows why with the latter). I feel lost!