a quick one
just blogging quickly as I really need to sleep but am not managing it easily. Might feel better to brain dump this!!
Kids seem v. interested in wartime things at the moment. M woke up and spent a while looking through The Horrible History of the World
A has been asking loads of questions about various things to do with the war. Neither of my 2 really do the whole question thing lots so it’s nice to have it. We were talkign about what kids would have read and I said that they read the Beano and then we checked Wiki to see when it started. Apparantly in the war it was available on alternate weeks with the Dandy to save paper and ink. Mine love the Beano so I said they could read them when we have our ww2 week.
Although I’m hoping we won’t have run out of steam by then. I haven’t planned to do all this discussion. *I* need to plan ahead so that I actually do the ration week and know what to buy and have a general idea of what I might cook and what people might have eaten. However either way it’s good. They’re interested and happy and that’s what matters.
We did a supermarket shop in the evening and spent the whole time being bombarded with questions about whether this food or that food would be ok. A was upset when I said no to Muller corner yoghurts!!! We talked about seasonally available food, no freezers back then and not so much chicken availability too. A insists she’s already following rations this week (except the yoghurt of course!!).
Dodged the rain on the way home. I love storms so was nice to get in in time to watch one. Never seems to be enough storms.
Kids have camped out downstairs (A has made a morrison shelter (or just a den) to sleep in) and now I must try and switch off the computer 
i love yours being so enthusiastic about it. sounds great.
Comment by HelenJ — September 1, 2009 @ 11:49 pm
I’m looking forward to seeing how your week goes–what a great idea!
Comment by Elizabeth — September 2, 2009 @ 6:16 pm