Sunday xx

We had a lovely day today.

This morning Mark cut the lawn in the back garden.  Anais and Roman each did their homework and then played "schools" in the summer house.

I finished the crochet ripple premmie blanket.

Roman's homework was to design some packaging for a new chocolate bar.  We melted a bar of chocolate down and set it in a silicone mould to create small heart chocolates.  Roman sprinkled them with "Eton Mess" sprinkles - dried strawberries and meringue.  He then designed a box to put them in - red to match the sprinkles and put a ribbon on it.  There is also a bar code, a best before date and a warning to keep out of sunlight!

Lunch today was a smaller version of our Christmas dinner as Anais and Roman have been requesting pigs in blankets for a while.  We had - 
pigs in blankets
stuffing
boiled new potatoes
sweede
carrots
parsnips
yorkshire pudding
onion gravy

After lunch we decided to go for a walk around the Lickey Hills.  We left approx 1.15pm.

There were 3 trails to follow, red, yellow and blue -  Roman wanted to do the red trail as that is his favourite colour.  We walked for a long time, up hills, down uneven ground and through mud!  Everyone got tired and we decided to go back to the car via the park.  We walked approx halfway through the red trail - the lower half of the map below.

It was approx 5pm when we got back - crusty bread rolls and salad for tea, followed by baths and a nice relax after all that walking!

Roman has been triop watching - nothing as yet.

Last night we watched (and recorded) "Jane Eyre" on BBC2 which Anais enjoyed that much she watched it again this evening.  When the kids went to bed we watched "The Fifth Estate" about Julian Assange.