T-Bird Anni Rides Again

We went to a local adventure playground instead!  Was a very pleasant way to spend a morning   Slightly marred by them contaminating my very scrummy strawberry and chocolate ice cream with banana ice cream which I didn’t realise until waaaaaay too late but hey, serves me right for not insisting on the scoop getting a bit more than a swirl in a couple of inches of water before serving me really (why is it that your average ice cream seller things that a few inches of water in a jug is sufficient to keep an ice cream scoop clean all day anyway???)

We shopped in the afternoon and I got talked into "picnic tea" which basically means spending a fortune on cheeses, meat paste, crackers etc which we then eat far too much of (because it’s all spread out in front of us so we keep dipping back into it all way after we have really eaten enough)  Nice though!  She did want to swim (well, new floats needed water testing obviously) but by the time we had got the shopping home, hunger got the better of her and then there wasn’t time before Brownies.

Education happened, as did TV, but, alas, not room tidying.  Brownie badgework was discussed, but nothing much seems to be happening there either as I’m insisting it is driven by her, as in I will do the Googling etc for stuff but she has to ask me what she wants, this appears to be challenging her.  Am I being mean?  There are 4 she really wants to do, most of which are project based ones and would be great HE things but really, I do feel that she’s big enough now to direct things a bit!

And then the really exciting bit happened…. well, I thought it was anyway….. the other day Duke killed my huge dinosaur of a laptop.  Or at least, it died during major surgery (memory transplant) which may or may not have been directly his fault but I figured guilt tripping him may expedite it’s replacement! Anyway, Duke spotted a small Dell notebook on EBay, very pretty, adequate spec, re-furbed unit, very cheap.  He bid on it in the last seconds of the auction and got it for me  so hopefully by the end of next week I should have a netbook!!!!!   Is very excited! 

Less exciting is that I’ve declared the mooncup MIA.  I couldn’t find it last month and it’s still not turned up so I’ve wandered round EBay and have bid on a lilac one and a pink one :LOL:    I’m expecting mine to turn up the day after the new one arrives…..  Actually, to be fair, mine is a size B and is over 6 years old so I am due a new one really!