Clouds

Sunday we woke to grey clouds and it was cold!  Poo!

We were all a bit tired from yesterday - didn't even manage to get down to breakfast until after 9.30.   Tom was full of hay fever, it looked like he was coming down with it last night, so I got his tablets out and the pollen filter, but we are too late, he is full of snot, watery eyes and can hardly breathe poor thing.  Today is going to be a slow day.

First thing was to finish off his Victorian invention.  Tom was given homework over Easter of coming up with either a working model or blue print of an invention using Victorian engineering.  True to form, he didn't tell us about it at all, I found out on the playground on Monday and went to see the teacher on Tuesday to find out more, along with a long queue of other parents.  Not only did they have to do that but also have to dress up as a Victorian - oh joy!

Tom has come up with a clockwork trampoline, where you use cogs and gears to adjust the tension of the canvas to choose how high you want to jump.  I love it, no way would an adult come up with something like that.  Obviously we aren't doing a working model, just a blue print - most of which has come from google.

Matt is playing his first game of cricket today, so he had an early lunch whilst they watched the snooker, then Tom and I had a small lunch and went quickly round the village to buy some mushrooms, we are back to mushroom dinners whilst Matt plays cricket - yay!

Then a game of Rummikub (Tom won) and Uno (Tom won) before watching Lion King 3.  Then a hot bath before mushroom pasta tea.  Not an interesting day, but one which was needed.  I'm zonked and can't wait for bed.

Oh - Ingleton lost at cricket, but was first game of the season and freezing!