Ok, Party's Over

Both parties, actually. Poor Sid has been feeling dreadfully left out - after all, if both boys get parties, why shouldn't she?

Kit required his guests to bring water pistols and a change of clothes, and in spite of the gloomy evening, and the fine rain already forming, the eight children spent a very noisy half hour getting drenched before forming a very cold and bedraggled queue for the shower. Suddenly having three shower rooms in the house was barely adequate. The girls beat the boys in the quiz, but were rubbish at pass-the-orange, and Jeremy's twist on the spoon-and-string game was that the spoon had spent the afternoon in the freezer. Hee hee hee.

Beri's party also involved quantities of water - in his case, a water slide with a paddling pool at the end of it. More wet children, these ones muddy as well. Lunch was pizza, hula hoops, slices of apple, and chocolate cake *hangs head in shame*. One girl ate the hula hoops and a slice of cake, and one ate only the hula hoops. I learned later that her mother had given her a sausage roll before the party, on the grounds that she never ate her lunch.

We are in our last week before term starts, and before Jeremy starts his new job. I don't know that any of us are much looking forward to either of those things.