Athletics, Housie and firemen

Wednesday 16th December: Warm and sunny early on, then cooler and grey clouds later. We schooled for the first hour of the morning while Mum and Dad went out on a walk to the White Horse Monument on one of the hills overlooking our house.
After lunch the boys played with their Hot Wheels tracks on the deck while I transplanted the sweetcorn seedlings and the tomato plants.
At 3pm we headed into town and posted some parcels to England and bought some buttons. We popped into the library to return two bags of books and went along to Junior Athletics in Victoria Park. The boys did some races over hurdles, egg and spoon, shot put and 'once round the track'. As it was the last session of the year there was a sausage sizzle afterwards so we didn't get home until after 6pm. And when we got home we discovered all three chickens scratching around the front drive, and the two lambs had both escaped from their paddock but into different places! It took a lot of chasing and arm flapping to move the lambs in the right direction but then they kept rushing off again. My final tactic was to get the two milk bottles - that got their attention and they followed me all the way back to their paddock, and then shouted very loudly when I went off without feeding them (they only have morning feeds since the weekend!).
At 6.30pm I was out to the Town and Country Club with another couple of mums from the gymnastics club to help out with their weekly Housie night. For reading back the winning numbers and delivering the winnings after each card we earn $100 for our club. However, it's not an amazing evening unless you have the right company with you. And I did. Lee (a woman) from Pompey. She's great fun. In fact the evening was improved further by the fire alarms going off 10 minutes into the 2.5 hour session, so we all had to go outside, listen to the siren on the fire station 200m down the same road, wait for the firemen to arrive there and drive their engines to where we were, declare it all safe and we got back into the warm after about 10 minutes in the car park.