Since we've moved to a nation of shopkeepers I thought it appropriate to build a pretend shop with Oliver and Pip.
The 'Frog Supermarket' (Oliver's choice) is resplendent with real, empty food containers to purchase and a very snazzy till complete with Tannoy system, scanner, money and credit card machine. We've also got baskets and a price board. There's no messing about with half arsed efforts in the Sweetwater household. ;-)
Oliver keeps asking if I want to be the shopkeeper and is getting very adept at paying by credit card, although is struggling with the idea of change. He wants to give you money whether you pay by cc or cash. Mama thinks his is great business model and Oliver could have a very successful, if insolvent, business on his hands. He knows to scan the item and then press the plus key and total it all up the end. What you have to pay always bears no resemblance whatsoever to the actual total, but he deserves a little grace right? Maybe there's a career in Waitrose for him after all? Mmmm, staff discount thinks Mama.
Pip on the other hand wants to eat the money and open and shut the very springy till draw that is so wonderfully designed that whenever you open it all the money flies out.
Moving on, we'll build the kitchen next; to replace cardboard box kitchen that is sagging under the weight of the pots and pans. Just waiting for Dada to buy himself a jigsaw to cut out the washing up bowl circle. Quite how it's gone more than a day without him buying it, when he has full licence to spend money in a hardware store, I'm not sure....
