Saturday
Up lateish this morning; but hey, it’s Saturday. Oops, forgot that we don’t actually do weekends as such. Nevermind, moving swiftly on …
Olivia started on the Lego city first thing until I suggested that she have breakfast first. And as there were still acrylic paints all over the floor (lids on, well done!) from yesterdays Klimt moment, “It might be a better idea to finish the masterpiece before the Lego city gets a paint job, dear.”
We went over to Lin’s in the afternoon. Olivia and the boys watched Lemony Snicket, while we consumed loads of caffeine. Incredibly low on educational value, but really could not care less!
We bumped into another friend on our way home. Olivia was being shown a few things on her guitar by a friend who has now abandoned us for pastures new up-country; so Olivia hasn’t really touched her guitar in a while. But running into this friend (this is getting confusing!) was a stroke of luck since he is more than willing to carry on where Sarah left off. Olivia had a smile bigger than her head; me too when he said he’s still got a bottle of wine that he’s been saving for nearly 2 years now. 2 years!?! It wouldn’t have lasted 2 days in my house!
Olivia finished off her painting; and after dinner carried on with some knitting that she hasn’t touched since the beginning of December. She’s knitting herself a scarf; should be ready by next Christmas hopefully. Was that sarcastic? Didn’t mean it to be …
When the painting was dry we stuck it on the wall. I found some prints of Klimt (The Kiss and La Jeune Fille) and stuck those up too. After looking intently at the print of La Jeune Fille while listening to me read the description - I have to admit to feeling smugness at my intellectually arty daughter - her only comment was, “There’s a lot of nipples in this picture”.
“It’s art”, says I, smugness totally evaporated.
“But there is, look, there’s one there, one there, another one over there, one there somewhere, look, I counted 5 at least.”
“Yeah, alright, it’s bed now, go and clean your teeth!”
Anyway, I checked, and there’sonly two, no idea where the other 3 came from.
