The weekend continues

Posing in new hats

After the gardening and lunch, a drive south of the river to Brixton to see the grandsons.  Nancy was out at a birthday party with the boys so we pitched in and helped Eliot clear up and get a move on with supper.  When the boys returned, clutching their birthday bags they were presented with Chilean fishermen's hats, a present from my old Chilean friend Lucila who has known our boys since they were born.   After modelling the hats, we gave the boys a joint birthday present...with which they were absolutely delighted.   It was actually the birthday of neither of them, but they are still at an age when time is immaterial and birthdays can be shifted to convenient dates!   Unfortunately we had not reckoned on the amount of time it would take to put the pirate ship together...as fast as we took the little pieces out of the packets, the boys scattered them!  Then supper intervened - a delicious meal of Sri Lankan curries (chicken and prawn), lentils and flat breads.  Eventually, and after the boys had gone to bed exhausted, the pieces were rounded up and Eliot completed the ship.

At last, ready to leave harbour!

Eliot and Nancy went out to meet some friends for a while and we babysat.   We watched a film about the Mosquito, the wooden World War Two plane, our interest due to the fact that Peter's father, a cabinet maker, worked on the mosquitoes during the war.  He was responsible for quality control.   We were glued to the screen to see if we could catch sight of him in the old footage from the factory near Watford.   No luck!