we had a nice day today 
We all got up a little earlier than usual and mooched about all doing different things - except Hermionie who wanted to do whatever anyone else was doing! Natalie has been drawing some lovely chalk pictures - inspired by SMart - she drew a fruit bowl and lot’s of yummy fruit in it then she moved onto playing with her Moonsand and sculpting a ‘cliff’ out of it. Both Hermionie & Natalie spent some time on the LeapPad and the many books we have for it (excellent for ‘educating them’ on the sly :-)). We checked the caterpillars and all but one has now turned into chrysalises, some are still twitching which freaks me out!!!! We also seemed to have gained a bright neon green-ish caterpillar from somewhere - I can only assume that there where eggs on the cabbage we were putting in and it’s hatched??? - still need to try and find one of those cheap netting laundry pop-up hampers to put them in - our little 12″ x 12″ isn’t the nicest surrounding for the butterfly’s to emerge into. Girls played outside for a bit.
Anyway… we offed out to Fareham Town Centre today, which we haven’t visited for a while - more little independent shops have closed (and a few larger ones!!) - it’s beginning to look just like any other High Street, just like Chichester now does and Petersfield is going that way too! - Grrrrrrrrrr …so yes, Fareham - had a McDonalds (naughty - but always get them grilled fresh - so nice!), Alex took kids to look around Woolies (more transformer oogling me thinks!) while I tried to find more educational book goodness in WHSmith and found a pack of Horrible Histoies Sticker Books (6 of them!) for just less than a fiver - who doesn’t love a good sticker book from which to remember a cunning fact or two? :lol: - saw lot’s of other lovely book goodness but me don’t like paying full price so always take a quick snap on my mobile of the cover and will scour the charity shops and school fetes for bargain copies!!
Both girls had taken some of their piggy bank money (we don’t give them pocket money - yet!) to treat themselves with - Natalie saw some lovely horse & princess figures in ELC, not much really going on in Woolies for them so after a quick trip to Boots to buy budegt blusher & lippie with my Boots Advantage Points, and a feet check in Clarks (OMG they both have bigger feet than I thought - must go shoe hunting in the loft!!) … we popped off to Toys r Us (another diversionary tactic from Alex to see if they have had any more Transformer deliveries :roll: ) - anyway - Hermionie chose the Peppa Pig Swings to go with her ever-increasing Peppa Collection and Natalie spent 3/4 hour int he Sylvanian Families aisle doing all sorts of sums about what she could afford - but more importantly how much money would be left for another day :roll: ) - so…onto the slippery slope of Sylvanian Families we go with a Nursery and a baby something-or-other (I’m awful - I really should pay attention - shouldn’t I?) to go in it - I think I know what’s going to be on a certain 7-year old Christmas list this year!
Came home and made pizzas for dinner - kids (well mainly Hermionie!) watched some Peppa Pig whilst playing with her new bits and Natalie was trying to make a Nursery out of an old box (drawing wallpaper and making slides out of cardboard).
That’ll do me for now - nite!
and dropped the girls round S&G’s while Alex & I went to pick up Natalie’s new bed (off eBay) and then we went back to West Quay, picked up a MacDonald’s for the kids on the way home. 
) and I have been trying to publish my now-updated 
(well only 2 and a donkey!) - they’re usually gathering in masses here - so we drove on to find some more to satisfy the horse-freaks in the car. Hermionie found a keepsake stone to add to her collection.
kids found it hilarious. 
) Alex wondered whether she should be at school? Natalie would not! I think it was more about the fact that she knew she wouldn’t be sat on that cold hard floor in the hall come Monday morning, not able to talk freely to her friends!
