We’d arranged to visit Caz and Bid today and had initially planned to go over there for lunch but just as we were slowly galvanising ourselves into being ready to leave the house there was a knock at the door and my Dad was here. I text Caz to say we’d be arriving after lunch …
Author Archives: Nic
Green woodworking and just working
There is a local Home Ed group that I have been aware of for a while called SHE -Sussex Home Educators. They seem to be a bit freemasonesque in that nobody seems to know quite what they do or how to join them but they posted to the local list recently about a couple of …
Text book
One of those days which remind you just why you have made the choices you have :). Thanks to at least ten late nights in a row and a real inability to get to sleep early anyway Davies, Scarlett and I were all in need of a late morning. I can’t deny I am to …
Ten
As predicted this morning was an early one. Scarlett woke us before 7am to tell us it was Davies’ birthday 🙂 When Ady said to her ‘yes, go and wake him up then.’ she replied ‘he’s already downstairs, he woke me up!’ 😆 So we all came downstairs and Davies opened his gifts from us …
Not back to school picnic
Back with a bump today – poor Ady went off to work, struggling to get up and learning he has yet another new boss lined up. We were off to the local Not Back to School Picnic. I’d stuck a time and date to suit us personally out on local lists but made it clear …
Must catch up….
Saturday was an earlier start than I’d have liked really with my Dad arriving just before 9am. Everyone else was already up though I think we’d all have been better with a bit more sleep. Davies was being all pathetic and floppy on the sofa but I decided it was tiredness alone and nothing more …
Sustainability Centre Camping 2010
It was our sixth camping trip at The Sustainability Centre and once again it didn’t disappoint. We really missed absent friends, specifically those who had been before and made it a place of special memories of times spent with them; LovelyEm, Marcus & Michelle, Katy B, Ros, Chris & Helen, Ali and indeed those who …
Campcraft Sleepout
Way, way back in about March or April I told Davies about a Campcraft Sleepout course happening at the Sustainability Centre this weekend. It was pretty much perfect timing given we’d be there from that weekend camping anyway for our annual Everyone-else-has-gone-back-to-school week and just a few days before his birthday. Davies loved the idea …
Foraging
Tasha and I finally had a nice day to try and do our much put off foraging excursion. Davies, Scarlett and I had time to nip to The Range first as I wanted to get a couple of camping bits (pegs etc.). They appeared to have a 40% off offer on such things and so …
Thursday
Normally my working all day day but I was only working the afternoon as they owed me hours for the bank holiday. I did some online stuff in the morning and then popped out to the post office to send some ebay parcels. Very annoyingly two people have still not paid despite auctions ending a …
The Long Goodbye
It’s all starting to feel very real now, in a slightly surreal, still half a year away fashion. This morning we dropped in at Julie-from-Badgers as she had wanted to check in with me prior to the start of term that I was happy with the programme and knew what it all entailed. I have …
Lunching and swimming
We’d been invited to GI Sarah’s house today for luncheon. She is a work colleague. She’s not really called GI Sarah, obviously but we have many, many Sarah’s at work so they have had to adopt additional twiddly bits. One of them has a fancy double barrelled name with the intials P-J so she has …
Enhanced productivity
Feeling quite back-to-schooly here, I think it is all of the planning I’m doing for the becomming Wondering Wanderers and decluttering the house giving me a taste for being productive, which coupled with the closing in of evenings, and nip in the air is making some deeply hidden part of me yearn for new school …
Lost track o’clock
Saturday for no apparent reason I had been plagued by bad dreams all night. One where Davies had gone off from somewhere, not knowing the area and with no way of us contacting him so we were frantically driving the streets looking for him. I woke up before we found him 🙁 Then I dreamt …
Collar tips and walls of books
Work for me today. Ady took Davies and Scarlett off with him for the day and they did the rounds of some London stores taking in Ikea and Costco where they particularly enjoyed looking at some crabs and lobster. Ady tells me they also had an interesting conversation about suffragettes. They did come home for …
Rest and recuperation
I decided yesterday afternoon when feeling down myself and looking at Davies and Scarlett all shadowed under the eyes and squabbly with each other that a day at home was in order today. We had planned to go fruit picking with Tasha and co but the weather forecast put paid to those plans anyway and …
I felt quite down this afternoon, which is very not like me and I was listing all the possible reasons for it on a BK post when I realised actually there were sufficient little niggles there to be allowed to feel a bit sad, which cheered me up. Suspect I am like the scarecrow ‘I’d …
Speedy account of yesterday
Before I dash off to work and start today :). Yesterday was quail handover day. A friend had originally wanted all three, then wanted the remaining two and when we briefly lost all of them and then only regained one I didn’t tell her about the reduced numbers just in case one came back or …
Unlikely Approval
I didn’t go to bed til 2am last night. I’ve been going to bed earlier and as a result getting up earlier too but havent’ actually been sleeping all that well, waking around 5am, so I didn’t go to bed until I really felt tired last night which seemed to work and I slept much …
Weekend drifting on by…
We had plans this weekend, only plans between the four of us but plans nonetheless. But the weather put paid to them. Saturday morning I worked. Ady was planning to take Davies and Scarlett to the alllotment. We’ll be giving it up pretty soon so we wanted to dig up the potatoes, harvest the onions …