Midsummer Update

We had a lovely belated midsummer celebration on Wednesday. We baked little meat pies inspired by the ones I keep seeing on Marybeth's solstice celebration posts. We made them a bit smaller, in a (12) bun tin - they were very cute and delicious. We also made potato salad with some potatoes from the garden and had some lovely fresh fruit from the market with ice-cream.
Cameron's friend D and his Mum came over and we went to the park although it was too hot for a lot of running around. After we got back they cooled down by washing D's Mum's car - they'd made her a little token for a free car wash too!
We took the leftover pies and salad to the allotment the next day and had another little picnic celebration up there. There are no pics of any of it as we were having so much fun.
Unfortunately I've been overdoing things at the allotment and ended up in A&E on Saturday with tendonitis in my left wrist which is no fun at all. I'm at my wits end knowing what to do with myself - can't knit, bake bread, write, hold heavy books, basically can't do very much of anything I like to do. I've ranted a bit about how it's going to set things back over at the allotment blog.
Sunday was a pretty lazy day although Cameron did a bit of running around in the back street.
Today we did some curriculum work - Cameron has decided to drop the English work as he's getting cross with it. I don't blame him at all, the questions are very obvious and a lot of the activities are busy work (text book designed for classroom use). He's still enjoying everything else though. Briefly, he is covering 2 different sets of maths, mummies and pyramids, the human body, a different art activity/technique every week, a different song every week and a recipe each week. We aren't following the ICT work book but he's learning a lot by getting to grips with his laptop. I'm sure I've missed something out but I can't think what.



This afternoon we decided to go for a walk in the woods, not the cleverest idea when it's 24 degrees and very humid AND when you have to wear a hot sweaty splint on your arm! We didn't even make it all the way around, it was so hot! We came home flushed and sticky. I just looked up the weather report for our area and it's set to stay hot for the next few days so we'll have to find some cool ways to entertain ourselves, neither of us do well in hot humid weather.