All up early today as Davies and Scarlett had a workshop at Making Space this morning. They’ve done several there and we’ve been really impressed with them but the most recent one done in August was billed as ‘Maori Pendant Making’ and I booked that alongside today’s ‘Cuttlefish Carving Keyrings’ and a four day animated …
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For my lovely friend, Alison
your mother was a hamster…
am drinking elderberry cordial with white wine, standing shoulder to shoulder with a fellow up-late twitter mate who was debating more elderberry cordial and rum and as she was the supplier of the elderberry cordial in my fridge I agreed to join her. So I googled for a quote about elderberry cordial as I knew …
Contains immortal phrase
I set the alarm last night for this morning as I had a work friend coming round for coffee. She invited us round for lunch a few weeks back and I’d been meaning to reciprocate so when we bought the van we arranged for her to come over and see it but have had to …
Experimental
Friday was my all day at work day. I got up early enough to chuck some stuff in a bag to bring away, issue Ady with a list of things to do / chuck in the bag too and told the kids to bring 2 sets of clothes and 1 set of pjs each. Then …
Hope the today to hope once north
Today’s blog post title is brought to you by the following random generated method: First word : seventh word of the seventh brightkite post down on the current front page Second word: seventh word of the seventh facebook news feed item on my personal feed Third word: seventh word on the seventh post down on …
Badgers revenge
Just liked Jan’s title so nicked it 😆 I worked this morning. Ady took Davies and Scarlett in with him and they did some store visits. We are just a few weeks away from me working at the library for four years – I know, four years how did that happen?! Childcare remains an issue …
Sometimes I stumble
One of the key reasons I Home Educate is that most of the time I honestly believe I am the very best person to be around my kids most of the time. I really do think that in the main I am pretty bloody excellent at being Davies and Scarlett’s mother. I know them really …
Things we have done today
Davies has: tidied his bedroom including clearing out the void underneath his bed. He created three piles; one for landfill, one for recycling and one for sale. I’m not sure what happened to the rest of the contents and suspect the worst is not yet over in terms of the kids bedrooms but he made …
Quack. Cough.
Scarlett woke in the night and came into bed with me. Ady got up and tried to sleep in her bed but didn’t get much sleep, I lay beside her and tried to sleep but didn’t get much sleep either. Scarlett isn’t a great bed partner at the best of times; wriggly, noisy and prone …
Vanning It
I worked this morning. It felt a bit like winding down as I was preparing the Reading Group folder for next year and realised I only have two meetings before we go next year. Davies was supposed to have YACs today but came to me quite upset to say he didn’t want to go. He …
A taste of the future
Caz and Bid have been doing Friday Volunteer Days at Willow Organics, operating on the same basis as WWOOFing with people coming along to work for the day in exchange for lunch, cake, maybe a bag or two of salad leaves and a hefty slice of getting in touch with the land. And that. We’d …
Nic Nick
It was my working all day today. The manager of Shoreham library, Nick, has been sent to work at Lancing on Thursdays so he was in charge. He is very jaded by working for the library service man and boy, very sarcastic and most amusing. As his age and his length of service combined total …
Strategic planning and getting stuff done only second to a Chilean mine rescue operation
A backdrop to our day, as I suspect has been for many others has been live and replay footage from the mine rescue. Tear jerking stuff. Utterly loved the second man up who brought stones up as gifts for his rescuers. 🙂 We waited in this morning as some dvds I’d sold on ebay were …
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes
About 6 weeks ago there was the usual rash of Educational Visits being planned on the local lists to coincide with the Back To School rush. I have not been organising anything other than Camp and WOOFing so decided to join in with some of the other people’s clipboardiness instead this year. So along with …
Getting there….
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Electrical fish in t’sea
The word efficiency always reminds me of that advert from years ago. Up with the alarm this morning as Lance the mechanic was coming to collect the van for a service. I couldn’t remember if he’d said 10 or 1030 so at 1010 I decided it must have been 1030. At 1130 I decided he …
Loving Living Today
I had a really bad nights sleep, I think it was too warm in the bedroom which threw me into a really heavy sleep that I then kept surfacing from and feeling really groggy. I had some very vivid dreams, mostly about the ducks including one where they had flown back to our house. I …
Ducks to water…
This morning was very focused on decluttering. Ady did a couple of runs to the tip, Davies and Scarlett played with the ducks while Ady moved their house into the car and I went through the ensuite bathroom clearing stuff. I now have a pile of stuff to use up before we go, a pile …
Workin’ 930 til 6 what a way to make a livin’
Davies and Scarlett were off with Ady for the day today and they dropped me off at work on the way. Ady has worked crazy long hours this week so was able to finish for the day after lunch and spent time getting the van battery on charge. We’re hoping to get it running over …
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