there was another repatriation yesterday, the number of people that lined up to pay their respects was amazing according to the bbc from basset to Oxford people where lined up. There is a little video of it on their site. The WW1 memorial has flowers piled up on all sides.

All but one of our appletrees are apple less. the twins keep taking them of conviced they can eat them only to find out they are nowhere near ready and end up feeding them to the chickens. the courgettes are being enjoyed by the slugs and so far only the potatoes and oca's seem to do ok.

We've had some real luck at the charityshops for James's birthday. he really likes his rpg's and quite a few of the boardgames that where made are now very collectable. We picked 3 games up for only a couple of pounds each and each of them are worthwel over 50 pounds now. He's also fond a local rpg group which is nice he really has missed his weekly gaming night.

I've almost finished my july minisock swap sock so hopefully I'll be able to send it to its destination in Scotland this weekend

Birthday party story painting

So squish and I did a paining session this afternoon. We painted the birthday party story.

It is blues birthday today
Paint big blob of blue in the middle of your paper.
Blue has invited some friends over to celebrate. before his guests arrive blue ensures the room is ready.
paint over the paper as if blue is walking around the room.
Blue finished getting everthing ready and waited for his guest to arrive
knock loudly on surface.
someone knocked on the door its yellow. Yellow comes in and congratulates blue. yellow goes and looks around the room, he looks out of the window and walks over to the table with food on it.
paint all over the paper as if yellow is walking around.
Suddenly there is a loud knock again (knock on a surface) its red! red comes is and starts chatting with blue. after a little while red goes and says hello to yellow. she walks over to get a slice of cake and some juice.
paint all over paper as if red is walking

Can you see who red & yellow brought to the party?

Euan loved it! its was really nice to spend 10 minutes or so painting together. it was just long enough to hold his attention and not get bored

The first one is Euan's


And this is mine

Our postcrossing map

Red flag are cards we sent blue cards we recieved and the green one is us :)

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