And here's one I prepared earlier...

It's Egyptian Day at James' school tomorrow. He has his fancy dress costume all packed up in his school bag. He also has to take a home made Egyptian musical instrument.

In typical "last minute larry" fashion the instrument has been finalised in the last couple of hours...by yours truly. Paper, pritt stick, paint, marker pens, a prepared pringles tube full of rice and chickpeas...et voila....

Oh, and not to forget the sticky backed plastic.

I could have been a Blue Peter presenter.

Sorry about terrifying people with the spreadsheet last night. In a step almost too far today, I actually got really giddy about learning to do something new in a spreadsheet. I really am a data nerd. Actually, I was giddy because I saw the HUGE time saving potential both for me, and for colleagues (who as a result will not have to populate their own data tables ...a job that I know that they all detest!). So, setting up the template this week, and then maybe I might spend a few less hours in front of this wretched machine looking at numbers and formulas.

James is a gazillion times better today. In fact he's super lively. He has made a battery powered gadget of some sort in Design Tech today and told me in wonderful detail about stripping wires down, making a circuit etc etc. Lovely to see him so animated.

And now to torment Corin ...will it be the seating plan or the menu choices...decisions decisions.