Her ballet school is pretty strict (branded everything! Eurgh!), so my careful watching of how to do good buns over many years has paid off and I can produce something quite impressive with Thea's slippy, thick hair. This is not evidenced in this photo which was taken after a day at school with french plaits!
Nathaniel has had to have new clothes too, this time for scouts!
He has joined a newly formed group down the road and is loving it! He is going climbing in a few weeks, a weekend camp including a water park visit, and has even enthusiastically signed up for the night hike! We drop them in a village at 7:30pm on a Friday night, and in teams they hike to a campsite 5 miles away (encountering several challenges on the way), where they build shelters and bivvy over night. Nathaniel thinks that this sounds excellent.
He's going to have to learn to sew on badges though - he was invested this week and already we have four to sew on!
Other things have continued more or less the same. Nathaniel has gone up into the Under 12s hockey squad and is playing for their C team. They played a very, very wet tournament last week and returned looking like drowned rats.
I decided all this activity was much too much like hard work and escaped for a day's walk at Flamborough Head while everyone was at school and work. It was lovely as the sea was blue and the sky was blue and you can't help enjoying yourself on a beach.
Bit of a first world problem.
And it enabled me to restock our east coast pebbles pile for painting. So there was good in it.
