It's been hot, hot, hot....albeit a bit overcast at times, but the breeze has felt totally tropical! Kept our promise from yesterday, and by the time Emily got back from her ballet class at lunchtime, the pool was up and filled.
Needless to say, that's where she's been all afternoon. Judging from the shrieks of laughter which have been floating up to my window, a good time has certainly been had. She and Jon have been pretending Tudor-y, swimming-y, wet things all afternoon.
Whilst all that was going on, I've managed to list a fair few more things on Ebay, updated our main site listings and even fixed the problem with our main elysian.co.uk domain. Haven't yet started on my BBC deadlines, but well, can't do everything!
Had a very interesting sex education discussion with Emily at bed time last night. Trouble with this Tudor stuff is that it's all a bit racy, frankly!! For a six year old, anyway. Jon's been reading her Anne Boleyn and Me and last night's session had maids gossiping about the lack of blood on the sheets when Henry first slept with Anne. Ahem. Plus all the David Starkey DVDs refer to consummation of marriage, discussion of whether so and so was a "true maid" or not, blah blah blah. So someone's curiosity finally got the better of her - think we've covered all the gory bits now, lol. Much wrinkled noses and "really?????", "eeuugggh" type comments, bless.
Oooh, yes, and a Tudor Shrinkles kit arrived in the post. Emily's been wanting one of those for ages, and I couldn't find it anywhere. Eventually got one, much to her delight. :)
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Do you want some Tudor paper dolls?! I have books of them here - if you can paypal me a couple of quid and your address I'll send you one. Have a look at www.tworedboots.co.uk if you want a vague idea of what the book is like.
Where did you get the shrinkles in the end then?
Love the pool picture :)
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