Level 2 Chi Kung.

My turn on morning, so Nick went off on one of his long bike rides. To my surprise, Katie suddenly announced that it should be baking day, saying rather accusingly that ‘we haven’t had baking day for MONTHS!’. I was a bit taken aback by this and pointed out that I have baked and baked and baked and baked. Anyway, I had other plans and, after feeding everyone, I returned to the job of tidying out the children’s drawers and cupboards.

Nick is currently in the throes of one of his periodic bursts of enthusiasm for gardening. These usually seem to coincide with times of year when it might be considered appropriate to hard-prune things, possibly unto death (what is it with men and hacking away at vegetation?). When he returned from his bike ride, he was keen to tempt me out into the garden to participate in the pruning. He was out of luck on that score: I’m a woman on a mission now that I can see the vision of a completely tidy house almost within my grasp.