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We did some painting yesterday with the lovely new poster paints R got for xmas.

Not sure who was more excited with it all, especially when we got down to the technical stuff ie. red and blue makes ? red and yellow makes?? blue and yellow makes??? Amazing stuff. I get a bit distracted putting the newspaper on the table because I’m reading all these headlines and articles mostly for the first time and it reminds me that there is actually a grown up world going on out there somewhere. Talk about “yesterday’s news”. More like “3 months ago’s news”.

After lunch we had to get a scoot on because we needed to wash and dry some stuff at the launderette (pipes to our machine frozen as it’s outside in the lean-to) and fit in a carwash and trip to the swings, all before time to make tea. Believe me, with the worlds most talented dawdler in tow (R’s quite slow too!) , this is a challenging list of errands.

It set me thinking that despite us spending most of our time together, mine and R’s world’s are so totally different. Her version of the afternoon would have read something like: Mummy says I have to turn off my favourite programme. She says we can go and see imaginary friend #1 in the launderette and take him to the swings. Imaginary friend #2 is coming with us too so I have to put his boots on and help him with his carseat buckle. I want to walk on the pavement by myself like that other girl. Why do I keep banging into big people? Mummy pulls me too quickly into shops. What happens when I move all the little boxes off this shelf? There’s a robin. My face looks funny in the washing machine. There’s some big boys at the playground!! I want to go on my swing and fly high in the sky like a bird! And so it goes on. It’s amazing that we manage to get anything done at all together seeing as our agendas are so different.