Quick run down of the Easter weekend
End of term festivities at the kids' school was slightly impacted by the rain - the Easter Bonnet parade was cancelled but the kids still managed to snaffle an egg each in the egg raffle, so spirits were high when I got home after work on Thursday.
Friday was intended to be a fairly quiet day and so it was; I think that taking them out to the local park for a run-around while trying not to get too wet was about it for excitement that day. I was surprised that the local hardware store was open on Good Friday (which Kid B kept calling "Good Luck Friday") and so I bought a couple of odds and sods there - light bulb for the oven hood, bracket for a dripping gutter. Until the evening, that is - I'd got a yen to eat Chinese food and we ended up going to The First Floor restaurant on Cowley Road, a multi-cuisine buffet reachable by bus ride from our place. Pretty good food, but more importantly one which the whole family enjoyed (Kid B pronounced the initial trials of thai fish and the chicken in ginger and spring onion delicious and had lots of subsequent helpings - Kid A wolfed down some chicken korma and naan).
Saturday was a normal market day and we usually go to the East Oxford Farmers' Market, which we did, but then we ran it straight into a playdate for Kids A and B, followed by a trip over to Mum and Dad's almost as soon as the playdate had finished. Poor Mum was feeling under the weather when we got to theirs - having not totally recovered from a viral attack of some sort a few weeks ago - but it was still lovely to be there.
On Sunday there was a small egg hunt (just one bag of the small foil-wrapped chocolate eggs was enough to be fun for the two kids and enough chocolate to start them off on the day). It was a lovely day actually, lots of beautiful sunshine. Again not much in the way of planned activities, mostly just a walk to the ice cream parlour and some playing in the garden. Dad gave the kids £1 each for helping to stack some logs, which they did a good job on actually. My main achievement was starting and finishing a t-shirt for Kid A:
She was very happy with it and wore it today, when we went to Slimbridge WWT (I think that stands for Wetlands and Wildlife Trust?). Good place to go (well, assuming you like birds of course) with lots to see, though the obligatory tick-off-the-items-you've-seen hunt was a bit over-long by the end. The flamingos in particular were visually astounding, but I liked the little touches best, like the insect houses. The food on offer was quite good and the tat shop at the end was high quality, so no complaints from me.
Now home, and glad of it.
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Friday was intended to be a fairly quiet day and so it was; I think that taking them out to the local park for a run-around while trying not to get too wet was about it for excitement that day. I was surprised that the local hardware store was open on Good Friday (which Kid B kept calling "Good Luck Friday") and so I bought a couple of odds and sods there - light bulb for the oven hood, bracket for a dripping gutter. Until the evening, that is - I'd got a yen to eat Chinese food and we ended up going to The First Floor restaurant on Cowley Road, a multi-cuisine buffet reachable by bus ride from our place. Pretty good food, but more importantly one which the whole family enjoyed (Kid B pronounced the initial trials of thai fish and the chicken in ginger and spring onion delicious and had lots of subsequent helpings - Kid A wolfed down some chicken korma and naan).
Saturday was a normal market day and we usually go to the East Oxford Farmers' Market, which we did, but then we ran it straight into a playdate for Kids A and B, followed by a trip over to Mum and Dad's almost as soon as the playdate had finished. Poor Mum was feeling under the weather when we got to theirs - having not totally recovered from a viral attack of some sort a few weeks ago - but it was still lovely to be there.
On Sunday there was a small egg hunt (just one bag of the small foil-wrapped chocolate eggs was enough to be fun for the two kids and enough chocolate to start them off on the day). It was a lovely day actually, lots of beautiful sunshine. Again not much in the way of planned activities, mostly just a walk to the ice cream parlour and some playing in the garden. Dad gave the kids £1 each for helping to stack some logs, which they did a good job on actually. My main achievement was starting and finishing a t-shirt for Kid A:
She was very happy with it and wore it today, when we went to Slimbridge WWT (I think that stands for Wetlands and Wildlife Trust?). Good place to go (well, assuming you like birds of course) with lots to see, though the obligatory tick-off-the-items-you've-seen hunt was a bit over-long by the end. The flamingos in particular were visually astounding, but I liked the little touches best, like the insect houses. The food on offer was quite good and the tat shop at the end was high quality, so no complaints from me.
Now home, and glad of it.
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