Welcome to the madhouse!!!

And I bet my freebie corner is full up already again !!!

They did a big story about Popi the clown going through different lands trying to find a friend amongst all the different creatures. Each class did two dances - Sophie was a duck and then a night monster (the ones in white bin bags were the day monsters - I was expecting nightmares after all the talk of monsters at school but it seems ok !!!)

The duck dance

The one in the green shirt is Stanislas the bully !!!

Sophie's teacher on the left

Getting ready to go stage !

The night monsters

The day monsters

With one of her classmates Adrien !

It was boiling hot in the hall

"Look, look, that's my sister up there !"

There's a blast from the past, remember that Granada (or whatever the company was called then - Box Clever?) advert on TV ?!! Anyway, Juliette had a bit of heat rash on her neck last week. This afternoon it turned into four or five big liquid-filled spots and as the afternoon progressed, a few more appeared on her face and tummy. No doubt about it, she's got chickenpox ! There's a bit of an epidemic here at the moment as various kids at Sophie's school have had it and I saw a kid on the bus with it too. She'll probably be covered head to toe in spots tomorrow when we get her up. (I'll skip over the bit about me clearing up a big puddle of bright orange sick because you might be eating your tea !!!)

I felt like something out of Sesame Street today because it was a gorgeous day so I told Sophie to go and grab her big chunky chalks and we went over to the car park to draw pictures on the pavement. Suddenly next doors kids stopped playing football and came over to join in and it turned into a big event ! You spend a fortune on expensive techie toys and all it takes is a tin of chalks to keep all the kids happy !

Did the laundry today, and decided to fold up one load while the other (half , to be on the safe side !) load was washing and it came out almost bone dry after the spin ... which meant that it came out of the tumble drier red hot and dry as a bone when I checked it "mid-dry" (going by usual time) so the filter must have been pretty clogged up for ages on the machine. Just call me McGyver. I bet we'll save on the electricty bill now because it's cut down the drying time by half. Hmmmmmmm I wonder what else I can fix now !!!