Packing and Moving But Not Moving · Saturday May 12, 2007 by Abbie
We started today with a little reading, but ended up getting up for breakfast a little earlier than usual. I guess Ram was hungry enough to want to give up the nice warm bed and a book for food. Either that or he was eager to get on with the computer game!
When the Dxh arrived Ram was busy replaying Discworld 2 as we had read on an Internet site that there were ‘Easter eggs’ where if you clicked on something in the game you were shown something else.
Dxh immediately went into help. I don’t think the Dxh ever made it to the end in these games, as back in the good old days there weren’t any hints or walk-throughs on the Internet! We told Ram how we were one of the first people to get onto the Internet in our village. It is easy enough for us to remember live pre computers and Internet, but this way of life and finding information has always been there for Ram.
It was nice that the two of them could share their love of this computer game, as it gave me a lovely hour on my own in the kitchen making lunch of home-made soup and home-made hummus.
We talked more about recent history at lunch as we told Ram about his birth. We also got into a discussion of the intelligence of animals and whether they understand things as humans do. Our other dog that died a few years ago was a very intelligent dog. He genuinely knew what a mirror was for, and could recognise himself in photos. I guess it was a conversation that would go into the philosophy category of home education.
After lunch we swapped the new and old sofas around so that Ram could have the old one to muck about on, and the new one would be for proper sitting on. After tidying up a little bit, we had no problem moving the old two seater on out of the way, but when we went to pick up the new one it proved heavier than we thought. Ram came to the rescue! He simply pointed out that we could take the cushions off! He was absolutely right! It was much lighter without the cushions and we had no problem getting it into position.
I went up for my nap then while the boys played more computer games. We were not able to get the sound working in Discworld 1 because the hardware in the computer it too advanced for this old software. Never the less Ram still enjoyed it and of course it is all reading practice for him.
After my nap we did some more packing in the kitchen. We are finally having it finished after 12 years of living in the barn, and this means that I have to move everything out of the shelves so that they can put on proper worktops rather than the scraps that we put together originally. At first both Ram and Dxh couldn’t understand what I meant by ’ take all the linen and baking tins and put them in boxes.’ Eventually they got the idea and Ram enjoyed folding all the tea towels and table clothes into a box while Dxh put all the baking tins into another box. I just hope the carpenter doesn’t take too long to come round and do all the work because I have already found things that are packed away that I need. At least when you move you have a date by which you know you will be able to unpack things again!
It was a strange evening as Dr Who wasn’t on. But we had the computer game to keep us going after Dxh left. And of course there was the Discworld book to snuggle down into bed again with!
