Golden Slumbers

"The Star" Golden Square, Petworth, West Sussex. A witch has mis-judged this gap. My children thought she was brilliant. My swinging trio

Golden Slumbers

I am not a major Beatles fan but I do love this song. Only the first 1:30 of it though, stop listening to it after that, it goes right off cue. I can recall owning it on a vinyl record as a child and rushing to lift the needle so as not to have to have the moment ruined.

The glorious decadence that can come from a Monday following the school holidays was somewhat eradicated today by the uber early start of one of our number. That did mean though that we had word game, at his request, done and dusted shortly after 6am!

O was brilliant this morning, regular readers will know he loves jigsaws, and he completed one of Lightning McQueen with a, totally unprompted, "Ker-Chow!" at the end.

S was funny too, shortly after waking up she said "In my dream you sacked the cleaner and I was in heaven because we didn't have a cleaner." S is not keen on the cleaner, well, that is not totally accurate, she likes the cleaner herself she just detests having to clear her bedroom floor and coming home to find her stuff all moved.

So, before 11am S had painted some fashion designs, played a game with O called "bedtimes" and co-oped me into helping with a mermaid project from her Usborne Mermaid things to make and do book (but I am not very good at painting on aluminium foil and mixing glue and food colouring was harder than I had anticipated) and E had turned his knights castle into a Halloween party.

Everyone seemed pretty happy at home but I felt some fresh air might be appropriate (I know, I can't help it!) so we popped over to the nearby Medieval town of Petworth for a play and the park and we spotted this witch who had crashed into a building. The Smalls thought she was great.

On the drive over to Petworth we called into the Southern Harvesters tractor shop. We used to take E there so often when he was two that I one stage I suspect the owners thought I was casing the joint! They have a great forecourt of new and used Claas tractors and implements which O just loves to see. Strewing for 2 year olds, taking them places they like to go. S & E were looking at books in the car so they didn't mind too much. Pleasing all of the people all of the time..........

As we were walking back to the car we saw the most enormous pile of dog poo on the path, seriously, it was bigger than my poo! and we alerted an elderly gentleman to its existence, he thanked us, complained about the state of the nation and then asked the children why they hadn't gone back to school yet. As he asked them not me I let them answer which they did and then he looked to me for confirmation. "It's true" I said and he just picked up the pace, started whistling and headed off. No questions about: social life, sports, legal entitlement. Nothing. Why can't every GP encounter be so pleasant!