On Friday Fives for 20th April
Apr. 20th, 2018 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danieldwilliam1) I had the day off yesterday and spent it at the cottage doing a bit of gardening and light maintenance ahead of the summer high season. A very pleasant day, warm, hot even, and sunny. I'm a little sunburnt perhaps. Certainly the best day so far this year to take off and spend outside. Got all the jobs done quickly and efficiently and spent a nice day with MLW. The village and the cottage were looking very pretty in the sunshine.
2) Home from the cottage for an unexpected coffee with my oldest friend, unexpectedly in Edinburgh for a work conference. Sat outside in the sun. Had a coffee and chat. He seems a little jaded. I think he's working too hard.
3) Then off to touch rugby. 7-a-side this week which is a good number. I was exhausted after last weeks 4-a-side. Scored a try which was nice. Played okay, thought the fitness was a bit better. Managed not to have to go to the full planning meeting for the mini-tournament at the end of the month so got home two hours earlier than I expected.
4) I am looking forward to the weekend which will involve football and rugby with the Captain and not much else. MLW is giving her TED talk on Sunday so the Captain and I are flying solo. I can see us watching some films on TV after rugby but I shall see if I can persuade him to play some board games or even to go outside with me.
5) The Captain walked to school on his own for the first time on Thursday. He's been aggitating for this for some time. His good friend J walks to school on his own (his GFJ lives next to the school and has a younger brother who goes to the same school so what actually happens is that GFJ runs ahead of his mum or dad but never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Anyhow, the Captain walked himself to school with me following discreetely 50 meters behind. He did very well, checking carefully at all the right places, keeping up a good pace, not getting lost. I'm sure he will be fine but MLW is concerned that if we let him walk to school on his own in P3 we will be shunned by the other parents and reported to social services. I say, let them take him if they can. Also, the walk to school is when you find out what is going on at school. He'll be put through a few more tests and I expect P4 will see him walking to school on his own.
2) Home from the cottage for an unexpected coffee with my oldest friend, unexpectedly in Edinburgh for a work conference. Sat outside in the sun. Had a coffee and chat. He seems a little jaded. I think he's working too hard.
3) Then off to touch rugby. 7-a-side this week which is a good number. I was exhausted after last weeks 4-a-side. Scored a try which was nice. Played okay, thought the fitness was a bit better. Managed not to have to go to the full planning meeting for the mini-tournament at the end of the month so got home two hours earlier than I expected.
4) I am looking forward to the weekend which will involve football and rugby with the Captain and not much else. MLW is giving her TED talk on Sunday so the Captain and I are flying solo. I can see us watching some films on TV after rugby but I shall see if I can persuade him to play some board games or even to go outside with me.
5) The Captain walked to school on his own for the first time on Thursday. He's been aggitating for this for some time. His good friend J walks to school on his own (his GFJ lives next to the school and has a younger brother who goes to the same school so what actually happens is that GFJ runs ahead of his mum or dad but never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Anyhow, the Captain walked himself to school with me following discreetely 50 meters behind. He did very well, checking carefully at all the right places, keeping up a good pace, not getting lost. I'm sure he will be fine but MLW is concerned that if we let him walk to school on his own in P3 we will be shunned by the other parents and reported to social services. I say, let them take him if they can. Also, the walk to school is when you find out what is going on at school. He'll be put through a few more tests and I expect P4 will see him walking to school on his own.
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Date: 2018-04-22 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-23 08:37 am (UTC)I think what we're mostly dealing with here is the social politics of communities and NLW's social anxiety.
I had a chat with one of the other mum's after football on Saturday and she thinks that several of the Captain's peers are already walking to school. P4 will be the big walking year I think.