God what a tedious week it has been. We were supposed to be in London on Monday, meeting Helen on her boat on Tuesday, at home ed book club Wednesday, working yesterday and meeting friends today. Instead with the exception of Tuesday, two trips to the doctors and several outings in sunglasses to various chemists …
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Today, today
what a novelty! I woke at 4am and my face felt on fire. Ady was snoring, I was lying there awake itching and getting crosser and crosser so I got up, had a drink of water, examined my eyes in the bathroom mirror to see my eyes were so swollen I could barely see out …
Disfigured of Sompting writes…
Monday I’d set my alarm early for London but having woken with an even more itchy, rashy face with added puffy eyes I decided London was not going to happen after all. Quite apart from not wanting to be out in public I thought the heat and contact with all sorts of other potential allergens …
Mr Blue Sky
Friday Work all day for me. Ady took Davies and Scarlett to work with him. I was still feeling a bit rough from my cold and there is an odd atmosphere at work at the moment. Yvonne, my direct boss has gone part time so she only works the first half of the week which …
Excitement all round
not all in a good way 🙁 Alarm waking again this morning. I always have a mental tally of how many mornings left before the alarm doesn’t need to be set. This week it won’t be til Sunday, so roll on three more mornings :). We packed a picnic and headed off to collect Tasha, …
At least the filling was nice!
I’ve had a boring and tedious sandwich today with only the middle bit being enjoyable. I’m sure it’s mostly down to feeling rough and therefore incredibly intolerant and impatient. For years and years I hated Wednesdays for various reasons and today was just a pants Wednesday I guess. Work in the morning – Bid was …
Junk Modelling and modelling junk
Up with the alarm again this morning as we were off over to Bognor again. Thanks to a facebook group we have gradually gotten more involved with a load of Home Educators locallyish that we first met several years ago but lived just that little bit too far away from to see regularly. Having joined …
Nature, baking, stuff
Keep meaning to do a photoblog, I usually do it in April and had thought today would be a good day but forgot. Alarm woke us this morning, although it was quite late. Davies and Scarlett have gotten into a real cycle of late nights and late mornings – we have 3 early mornings in …
Saturday I worked in the morning. The upside of my slightly longer all day shift each week is a slightly shorter morning shift each week. Enjoyed talking politics and green issues with James the Saturday assistant who’s doing similar A levels to what I did and has similar ambitions to the ones I did at …
46 and dancing
Thursday I worked all day. The first day of my new shifts since the opening hours changed. My all day shift each week is now 930am-6pm rather than 9am-5pm. This does mean my morning shift each week is a mere 3.5 hours rather than 4 so I probably shouldn’t complain as that will sail by …
Wednesday
We had two potential plans today – one was Amberley working museum which has a local residents discount offer running again and a group of HEors were going along with a loose plan to meet up for coffee. The other was meeting up with Caz, Bid, Archie and Eliot in the woods. But when I …
Safety and Swimming
We went to Safety Day today. We went two years ago and it’s a really good educational day organised up in Berkshire for HEors from various South East corners of Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire and more. It’s one of those events that looks good on paper, is nice and cheap and nicely encompasses the sort of …
All about the ducklings
Today was an at-home day so Tarly could bond with her ducklings, Davies could bond with things you plug in and I could get several loads of laundry processed. We all slept in – much needed and then Tarly set about getting to know Lucky the yellow duckling and Sploosh the black duckling 🙂 She’s …
We all reek of it despite baths and hair washes :). And my gorgeous camping blanket smells like camping again, after a winter draped over the sofa losing all it’s scent. Friday I’d intended to stay up late but like many people once the exit polls started to look pretty accurate and I got my …
Polls, sheep, lambs, friends, sunshine, axes
We did sleeping til we woke up this morning. And yes we all always sleep til we wake but we don’t necessarily wake naturally. We breakfasted, packed sandwiches and checked addresses then headed off to Brighton to do Lookering. Nine sheep all fine, the water needed topping up so Tarly did that from one of …
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Early mornings late dinners
I worked this morning and Caz had Davies and Scarlett. Due to my haphazard style of airily saying ‘we’ll talk online to confirm’ when Caz and I parted last week I’d not been fully confident it was properly arranged and had been texting both Caz and Bid last night with no replies. So I rang …
The plan was a lay-in for all Goddards not getting up to go to work this morning. But Miss Goddard woke just the same and having gotten bored watching Ady unpack his car and decant it into the playroom she came and tried to wake Davies and I up instead. I did wake, Davies didn’t. …
Deersglade and Bewilderwood
Saturday Work for me in the morning – Ady ran me in and I pottered about ordering in more top up books for my rather successful dinosaur display, sorting out the Reading groups folder and then covering the desk. One of the resident ‘characters’ is a man who claims to have written a book about …
Digging and packing
Woke with my very late set alarm this morning and had to rouse sleepy children. We’re so rubbish at mornings :). Caz had already sent me a text while we were still breakfasting, then Archie rang and I said we were about to leave but then we had a drama involving Davies’ phone and the …
Work
Ady took Davies and Scarlett to work with him today. He is doing it fairly regularly and while I suspect the three of them spend most of their day in charity shops lunching at McDonalds and he often comes home rather exhausted by them I think this is in general A Good Thing. I do …