T-Bird Anni Rides Again

the past day or two has been consumed with seraching for and printing off a huge heap (well, okay, about  30) pictures from the Harry Potter 5 film, typing out captions for them all in "Harry P" font (it’s like the font they use for the films, all jaggedy and lightning-bolt-ish) and a sentence or two for each in a more legible font.  Once the pictures started rolling off the printer she started sticking them in a book, no particular order to them (I did suggest trying to place them in the order they would be in the film but she didn’t like that idea) taht I can see but definitely the right order according to her.  Then she started sticking the captions onto the pictures and she’s now half way through the sentences.  I need to replenish our glue stick supplies urgently! Now, promise me y’all won’t go telling her that this has required a whole heap of reading will you?   Not to mention creativity with arranging it all and manual dexterity cutting out all the bits of writing for each page.  I’ll see if she wants to fetch it to Melrose to show you Helen!  Actually it made me wonder if i could cobble togther a "reading scheme" for her based around the 5 films, you know, pictures in roughly the right order for the film with a sentence or two telling the story so she could have her own Harry Books to practice reading from.

Last night we were at a Red Cross "compulsary training course" which turned out only to be required if you provide a particular service, which I don’t.  I shall say no more except that the icing on the cake was one of the other atendees spent quite some time telling me how I do it all wrong with the Rainbows and that Brown Owl is also doing it all wrong with the Brownies.  She was a Guider in her younger days but stopped 10 years ago but naturally she still knows it all….. sigh.

Packing etc is almost ready to begin, I spent a while today edging about 20 new tea towels cut from a small bolt of thin toweling discovered at the bottom of my stash.  There isn’t a right angle or a properly straight edge to be seen anywhere but they should do good service at drying up and be thin enough to dry reasonably quickly in the dryer.  I still have no idea how we have dwidled from a huge crate of the other cloths when I first made them all down to about a third of that number by the end of the last Melrose but hey, we are re-stocked and I got rid of some stash so that’s good! 

And now, once I excavate the bed from under a mountain of clean, dry washing, I’m aiming for one of those early nights I promised myself