Thursday, May 21, 2009
A and S and Wii
I have discovered a new use for the Wii.
It is very useful at A&S meetings for keeping the boys busy while the girls are doing dressmaking stuff. Or at least that's what happened today. It's been a bank holiday - 'Uprising Day', otherwise known as Ascension Day or the 40th day of Easter - so given that we have Revel coming up in about three weeks time I thought I'd throw an open A&S meeting as I knew that some folks had projects with which they needed a little help.
We ended up with six of us, with the boys playing with the Wii while the girls did an assortment of new fencing armour and court garb. Except for the WiiCheer break, which the girls found terribly funny and surprisingly energetic while the boys watched with looks that can only be described as a combination of disbelief, horror and despair.
As usual, I didn't actually get anything done, but in many ways that's the point of these sessions - spreading the knowledge so that they can do things without me in future. I'm hoping to do stuff at the weekend - maybe a bit of dressmaking, perhaps a little silk painting, almost certainly some more calligraphy.
In the meantime tomorrow, though, I have to return to work. If I didn't have a meeting at 09:00 I, like many other people around here, would be making a long weekend of it.
It is very useful at A&S meetings for keeping the boys busy while the girls are doing dressmaking stuff. Or at least that's what happened today. It's been a bank holiday - 'Uprising Day', otherwise known as Ascension Day or the 40th day of Easter - so given that we have Revel coming up in about three weeks time I thought I'd throw an open A&S meeting as I knew that some folks had projects with which they needed a little help.
We ended up with six of us, with the boys playing with the Wii while the girls did an assortment of new fencing armour and court garb. Except for the WiiCheer break, which the girls found terribly funny and surprisingly energetic while the boys watched with looks that can only be described as a combination of disbelief, horror and despair.
As usual, I didn't actually get anything done, but in many ways that's the point of these sessions - spreading the knowledge so that they can do things without me in future. I'm hoping to do stuff at the weekend - maybe a bit of dressmaking, perhaps a little silk painting, almost certainly some more calligraphy.
In the meantime tomorrow, though, I have to return to work. If I didn't have a meeting at 09:00 I, like many other people around here, would be making a long weekend of it.