We had expected a very boring day yesterday, having no car, but it turned out to be very full and fun.  Our crocs arrived very early and Flopsy put hers on straight away and has only taken them off for bed since!  Mopsy’s not keen on hers - I think she can’t get over how loose they feel and refuses to keep wearing them to get used to them.  Fingers crossed she does soon!  Cotton-tail’s are too big, but we’d expected that.  I can’t decide if mine are too big or not.  They’re certainly bigger than the website says they should be, but I seem to keep meeting people who wear theirs as big as mine are and find them fine.  And I’m fairly certain that the next size down were too small when I tried them on.  They’re very comfy though, and despite a lot of walking yesterday, came home with no pelvic ache at all, which just about never happens nowadays, so they’re clearly not too, too big.  I might go and try on a smaller size anyway, which will either reassure me, or I’ll buy a smaller size and someone suggested keeping the larger size to wear in the winter with socks - or I could sell them on ebay.  I wore them for too long yesterday to really send back, unfortunately.

A friend and her 22m old came over late morning to see the chickens and have lunch with us, and then another friend texted me to invite us to join her and another family at some free children’s street theatre that was going on in town in the afternoon.  We knew we’d have to the get the bus, so I was a bit reluctant knowing how tired my back gets, and not knowing if I ought to wear my crocs or not, but my friend persuaded me to try them out for the day and sell them on ebay if they didn’t work out.  I took my merrells with me anyway, just in case. 

So we got the bus into town and met up with the other families to watch the most fantastic street theatre.  It was 50 minutes long and the children managed to stick the whole thing out and really enjoyed it all.  It was like a silent comedy movie, with someone playing an accordian and making sound effects and three other actors playing 8 characters who were involved in some way or other in the theft or recovery of a stolen Mona Lisa at a station.  It was very funny and very slapstick with lots of people falling over and being put in dustbins and hanging from great heights when ladders get taken away etc.

Then we all went to get the children snacks and a drink, which took us to 4pm.  Two of the children begged us to take them to the ‘dinosaur museum’ - a lovely, free city museum that has a very small dinosaur section that our children all love - so we went there until it closed at 4.45pm, got the bus home and then played with the chickens until DH got back. 

Mopsy has suddenly worked out how to pick the chickens up - something I worried about at first, but the chickens don’t seem to mind at all, so I stopped asking her not to.  Flopsy’s not quite so brave and will only pick one of them up.  Cotton-tail keeps trying, but is not at all gentle so we have to keep rescuing the poor chickens from her.  I’ve just noticed they’re short of food, so will go and top them up.