Big day yesterday, we went out to a medieval festival for the day, lots of fun & gorgeous autumn sunshine had by all. Missy E managed ok without a sleep but predictably was a bit on the cranky side today & rewarded me with a lovely pants poosplosion, which with a complete lack of poo-wrangling skills on my part lead to an extended toilet-bathroom-change-table-laundry cleaning spree afterwards .

I'm having trouble corralling DD1 into her early-term project work , they have to read 4 Colin Thiele books & do all this stuff about them and so far she has picked the longest hardest book (with the greatest yawn-factor) and - no surprises - is only 10 pages into it. ARGH I feel like history is repeating and I don't know if I can withstand 7 more weeks of riding her back about it . I have politely but helpfully pointed out that she should rummage around in the box of books and find the shortest books that will take the least time to read - astonishingly given her track record for shirking this hadn't occured to her at all .