Children, meetings and a quilt

Today, as are many days this week, was due to be a busy one.  Starting with a quick visit to the nurse to look at my leg ( I thought that it was looking better - but it was a different nurse so she couldn't say), it was then onto  the craft group - unusually being held in the morning for a one off.  Carine brought her two children as it was a staff training day at their school - and one of them was content to sit quietly and read.  Ami. however, was full of beans and so I set her some "Olympic" activities to do - 100 step ups, 20 times the length of the hall balancing a  book on her head and then carrying 10 books 50 times across the hall.  We didn't see the poor thing for the rest of the 2 hour period!

After lunch, and a quick tidy up of the kitchen (more of that later), it was then onto a WI committee meeting.  They are friendly affairs but are not good for the waistline - Carine had cooked some rock buns for us - and was taking them out of the oven as I arrived!



Today is Halloween (which I really don't like and hate my evening being disrupted with little children - bah humbug!) but that means that tomorrow is 1st November - the date that I had promised myself I would put my Anni Downs quilt up.  Since tomorrow is another busy day, I cheated and put it up this afternoon!


So - returning to the tale of Mr and Mrs Mouse.  I decided, last night, to turn the kitchen lights off and shut the kitchen door, whilst then shutting us all into the lounge and watching tv.  Maybe, I pondered, I would be able to catch the kitchen mouse (I am convincing myself that there is only one more to catch!) before I went to bed.  At the end of Strictly Daisy wanted to go out so I gingerly crept into the kitchen - only to see hat the malteser had been nibbled - so its still there I thought.  As I stood by the back door waiting for Daisy - I started to hear some rustling - totally freaked me out!  It turns out that Mrs Mouse is was not a great fan of Poldark but does did like her chocolate.  As we were all safely back in the lounge watching the afore mentioned programme, I heard the trap go and, when we all went to bed, managed to get rid of trap plus Mrs Mouse.  I have set two more traps just in case I am wrong and will leave them in situ for a few days whilst keeping an eye open for signs.  I have also plugged in the mouse emitting plug - allegedly prevents more from coming in.  Let's hope that this little adventure is over!