A VISIT TO CHAVLAND

Hiya

As you may have noticed we decided to leave the safety of Gillingham today and venture into Chatham shopping centre. Hmmmm, not our most favourite of places. Not because of the shops but because its normally full of people, most of whom have screaming children that they continuous ignore while talking to their mates about their latest weekend exploits. Ok, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but that's what it feels like. Sorry Chatham.

So up and out as soon as we were able to get on the bus using Callum's free pass and into the Pentagon we ventured. First stop Game. We have a reward card and a trade in card with them and as we now know that they are going bust we thought we'd see what we actually had to spend and spend it. We had approx £24 to spend which doesn't sound like a lot until you know that Callum isn't into all the latest stuff and is quite happy with his Playstation 2, Wii and DSi. He's also very particular about the games he wants to play. So after wandering around the shop for ages (most stuff was either gone or on sale) we managed to get two Playstation 2 games (buy one get one free) which cost us the grand total £3 and a Wii game for Father's Day for £13. So £16 spent which left us with £8 still to spend. Nothing in Chatham, so a visit to Hempstead is due as they have a better selection of DS games apparently (according to Callum).

Then Waterstones; found a £5 gift voucher for there that he had been given at Christmas which we hadn't got round to spending. So one Asterix book later and that was spent. Callum definitely wants to go back to Waterstones as they had most of the Asterix books and a large selection of TinTin too.

Then the dreaded Primark! Don't go there often, but it is brilliant for basic stuff which is exactly what we were after. New socks for Callum + a selection of plain T-shirts for him (I've cut up his favourites from last year and intend to sew the logos onto the plain new ones). Also found a red stripy T-shirt and a black one with a red Union Jack on which he liked. Then it was just socks and new pj bottoms for me and we were done.

Decided to go for a coffee and cookie in Subway before catching bus home.

After lunch I got round to marking yesterday's work and today's. He did pretty well in his progress test in maths, getting 28.5 out of 33. Most of the things he got wrong were very simple little mistakes and he knew exactly what he'd done wrong.

Then Merlin the dog arrived for the weekend. Terri and her dad are going off to Cornwall for a family wedding, so we are looking after Merlin until Sunday.

Callum went back on to the computer once dad had finished painted the ceiling, so that was the rest of his day sorted.

And I still haven't sorted out the photos of the colour wheels they did yesterday. Ooops.

Anyway, cya