Up close & personal

We're just so cool we dared to throw toddler time off the schedule for today and replace with Soccer Tots. Get us, and our crazy outhere-ness.

Not done SoccerTots before but I was full of high hopes. Especially as 2 of J's cousins have played for the England women's football team and West Ham. It became clear within the first five minutes when L picked up the ball and lobbed it at another kid that maybe I should lower my expectations somewhat. She may still make a good west ham fan rioter yet though.

Joking aside, she properly loved it. She's normally a bit shy and refuses to look at new people, even covers her face to avoid them but she was really chatty and cheeky here today. They gave her a sticker which she guarded all day so she could show her sisters when they came home from school. She even took it off her top and stuck on her belly during bath time. :-)

Noteworthy weather today. It was fubloody freezing! Converse do not work well in these temperatures, they felt like ice knives cutting into my toes. Fingers so cold I could barely open the clasp on Ls buggy to let her out for a run around to warm up.

We fed the swans in the very flooded lake. Normally we have to go down some steps to get to them, but the lake was so high they were at street level. Hence today's super close up, and slightly terrifying snap. The underpass that is normally for people and cars looked like a canal. We seem to get so much flooding these days. What's that all about?

Suppose to be going to see my grandma tomorrow. She's been really run down and getting panicky about feeling unwell and unlike herself. I think part of it is anxiety and also lack of exercise as she doesn't like driving anymore and feels vulnerable walking alone as she gets less steady on her feet. She's just called me to say she has impetigo :( my brother gets married in 9 days so we can't risk catching it. And now I feel bad for not being able to visit her while she's in this state. It's been months. Going to make an effort to schedule biweekly visits from now on.