02 January 2019
Dear child had some money over Christmas. Rather than spend it all, we thought it would be nice to setup a home bank with a high interest rate to help explain saving money. We suggested that we split the money in two, half to go in his ISA and the other half to spend and what remains can go in the home bank.
We took dear child to the largest nearby toy shop that we could think of in a town a few miles away to spend his money, but he could not find anything he liked. He was a bit upset, but I found an electronics set that I thought would be good. I didn't end up buying it as I thought I'd look online at the various types available.
I found a set called Hot Wires, which is much like Lego bricks.
We had to tour the local warehouse brand 'Greek God of queuing' shops until we found one with it in stock. After getting it home, it took only a few minutes to start making circuits with dear child. He was thrilled once we had the FM radio scanning and then tuned to a station that played music.
We also went for a walk every other day during the break, this was good for us all, covering a few miles and gave us a much needed dose of fresh air.
New year's eve was good, we were all asleep by around 23:00. At 23:59 the neighbour returned with a friend and there was all manner of jumping around and making noise, until around 01:15 the next day. I think they then spent the new day out. It was painful trying to sleep.
Earlier that day the same neighbour parked their car outside our house.
We parked close to them so other other neighbour could get in and both
could leave without any problem.
Instead, a stupid neighbour (two doors from us) parked as close to us as possible. Laughably, someone else parked up to their car and they were unable to exit. Serves them right. The couple who own the car were arguing and the wife overheard her say "well I wasn't expecting that to happen to us". Nothing like watching an evil plan backfire.