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Optician's appointment for me, Linnea and Emer, using the voucher from Lucy. My glasses are going to be very expensive but come with a two-year no-quibble guarantee. Linnea is fine and Emer needs to be retested in six months, because she might need specs non-urgently or she might just have been bored.

We got to see awesome photos of the insides of my eyes.

Then we met Gideon for lunch and went to the Museum, where we saw the Eagle of the Ninth (the actual Eagle which inspired Rosemary Sutcliff to write her book) and the children and Gideon dressed up in Roman Garb and we also looked at ancient biscuits and listened to fossilised accents on the educational films from a hundred years ago, more or less. It's a really great museum for small children, our local one. We're very lucky. When we looked at the Victorian Classroom, however, I realised how little my children know about modern-day classrooms, really.

After that we popped in to see Becky, and then on to the park - they went ahead and I brought Astrid and TWO PAINTINGS to the post office and POSTED THEM at long last - and then the big girls were vile and objectionable and ran away and hid and ran away taunting us and refused to leave to go home nicely until we came over all heavy and strict, bah. But it was fine.

The train home was crowded but we met a friend from across the road, and then Rob was home a little earlier than we're used to, and the evening was fairly nice. Linnea is still too socially exposed and spent much of the evening alone in her room, including eating dinner there. Then she had a chamomile bath and she's asleep now.

I started writing child development posts but haven't finished any and haven't even started Emer's. Oh well.

We had a visitor! Dani from The Literary Gift Company came over to show me the babygros with A Modest Proposal frontispiece on them and they are AWESOME (there are two others, too - Tristram Shandy and David Copperfield first pages). That was lovely and I managed only to force two books on her before she made good her escape.

Yesterday Maria told me about http://us.service.lego.com/en-US/BuildingInstructions/default.aspx and I've been saving likely-looking instructions and am hoping to sort enough Lego to know what we can and can't make.