Despite having only made ANZAC Biscuits on Saturday, we started our week baking a cake. Partly because in theory Monday is baking day, but mostly because it was my BFF’s birthday. None of the other photos will cooperate and appear the right way up, so you’ll just have to trust me that Tils was heavily involved in all stages. She wielded my gran’s electric beater like a pro. We might have a bash at meringue and pavlova this summer. Yummmmmmmmy!
Cake has also been a lovely distraction from the existential crisis generated by attempting to homeschool an 8 year old and realising that you have no idea what a unit fraction, bar model or base ten are. I not only have a good Maths GCSE, I helped other people get theirs. Right up until calculus, I loved Maths at school. So how do I not understand any of this?!? Without the internet and the saving graces of google and YouTube, none of us would have got beyond the first week!
We had phonecalls from a couple of the teachers at the school to check in and see how we were doing. They seemed pleased we were both reasonably sane and doing a bit of this and a bit of that. Tilly had started watching Blue Planet and could relay some of the oceanic food chain. I felt better about the amount of TV she has been watching generally then. Oops.
Weekly floral update… My first houseplant flowered this week. I have surprised myself by not only keeping them all alive for the past eight months, but actually getting one happy enough to flower made my day.
And not floral, but it is grown by me…. potatoes! Our first attempt at potatoes appear to be growing very well. I was slightly nervous that Bindi’s new bone burying habit might disturb them, but she only seems to bury them around the very edges of the grass. To be fair, most of the bones are bigger than her head, so I guess carrying them is hard work!
We found a new purple and white flower out on our walks, currently just in one blink-and-you’ll-miss-it single patch. No idea what it is, but it’s very pretty.
Also spotted this week, a little blue birds egg. I think it might have belonged to a song thrush, having trawled the internet. Unfortunately, having picked it up for a closer look, it crumpled. It was a happier walk than the one when the twitching bunny died in my hand, that’s for sure!
Indoors, I’ve suddenly been taken by a compulsive need to sort and organise. My mother is hoping the aliens don’t replace the clone with the real me until I’ve finished the entire house! I have thoroughly reorganised the larder cupboard, largely due to the need to plan food and online shopping orders. It looks a lot less cluttered even though there’s probably more in there. Weird, huh?
Then I went on to suggest we sort out Tilly’s cupboard, and with a decent amount of joint participation, it looks amazing and she’s actually remembering what’s in there, so that was a good use of four hours. Much to my delight, she’s also tidied up her bedroom and taken to camping on her bedroom floor, so I don’t need to keep putting the understairs cupboard 3D jigsaw back together every Sunday. Bonus!
On Friday evening I finally managed to join a Taekwondo session with our online dojang. During the weeks away from training I have absolutely forgotten most of what I had learnt, but I was delighted to be trying again. Jo will have fun trying to get me back up to speed!
Maybe I felt the need to do something productive because we were about to begin our Star Wars marathon? With Monday being May The Fourth (Be With You), International Star Wars Day, it seemed rude not to revisit them. Thus far we have watched the 3 Anakin movies (Episodes I, II and III) and Solo.
I’m either very well loved, or just comfortable to lie on, because this is how we spent much of the weekend. George likes to lie between my thigh and the arm of the sofa, Bindi likes to have her head on my knee, and Tilly likes to be either in my lap or snuggled into my side. Cosy and actually pretty lovely too. From time to time I relax my personal space boundary, and they’re like iron filings on a magnet!
Reading this evening that the government are talking about reopening schools in the next couple of months was a bit of a shock. We’re finally figuring out how to make this situation work for us and now it’s going to change again? Nothing is certain yet of course, but I had been working on the assumption she’d be at home until September. I’m going to miss her terribly when she goes back, whenever that may be.
How’s your week been? Xx
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