Where the rest of the days went

Tuesday

We went over to Nic's for the afternoon, which was lovely. F only had one waily moment and that was right at the end. Mixed with the Beans, a Screamteamer in 'sans enfant' mode, and the Lifer and of course the hostess with the mostest. It was a really good social afternoon - Tuesday is the new Friday for me at Nic's, very relaxing but then Wednesday morning is always a bit of a shock. The room rang with Twittering and the hall glowed with Crocs. F had a really good time, putting Sparky and Chief with Davies' Cube World people and playing outside in various combinations until the very end when she wailed, just as we were leaving.

On the way there and back, we talked about washers in taps and battery hens - F had been trying to whisper to Nic's chooks that they could escape and go live in the park, so I told her that they are pretty well off for space and seem happy and healthy and made the comparison with battery hens and broiler chickens, not seeing daylight, having no space to flap wings, getting diseases, having very shortened lives and generally not living the life that any living creatures should have. She seemed to take this in and accept it, so here's hoping she won't be trying to 'liberate' any of N's birds ALF style any time soon.

Also talked about deafness: she saw a man with a dog in the shop and wanted to pat the dog so was asking him if she could, but the man was deaf and the dog had a 'hearing dog' coat on, so she didn't have much luck. I explained that the man couldn't hear because he was deaf and she got confused with 'death' and that made her think it was all a bit scary that he couldn't hear her and maybe he was from some kind of 'death world' etc. An imagination like hers can be a curse as well as a gift!
Came home all tired out and had curry.