Woke up this morning, with some dismay to the sound of rain drumming on the windowpanes. Dismay not because I mind rain particularly, I can find as much joy from splashing in puddles and getting freckles of mud on my nose as I can from stretching out in sunshine and adding more real, can’t be …
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The boys and the girls
Davies had YACs this morning so we all were out and over at Glynde where they were meeting for a hill fort visit. I’d told Tarly we’d visit Raystede Animal Shelter while Davies was YACing so when we were invited to stay and join the YACs she was reluctant. So I suggested Ady stay (he’s …
Thursday and Friday
Thursday we had been planning to attend a weekly HE get together in some localish woods for den building, bushcraft and stuff. We’ll only ever be able to make it fortnightly as it’s on Thursdays which I work every other of but it sounds like a really nice gathering with a good mix of people …
Candle
July 1997 March 2009 September 2000 Ady and I adopted Malice and Candle from the RSPCA way back in 1995 after we’d lost two kittens to the busy road we live on. We’d felt we wanted cats but wanted to ensure whatever cat we gave a home to would be given the chance of a …
work, bareback riding, ducklings, badgers and brothers
Oh I’m so well rounded…literally 😉 Work this morning for me, Ady took Davies and Scarlett off to Julie’s nice and early so I spent some time trying to get my new sewing machine working. I also spent some time tending to Candle. She is now at the point of dying and I am agonising …
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Sunshine
Really enjoyed having nowhere to be until this afternoon today. I’d been awake in the night with an upset tummy and was feeling slightly delicate. Nothing more came of it although it’s been a bit rumbly all day, I suspect it was eating a big bowl of pasta at 11pm last night when I got …
Bread and flour making
A couple of events for HEors were posted up on the local facebook group recently at the Weald and Downland Museum. Every event we’ve been to there before has been excellent with passionate, enthusiastic and knowledgable volunteers staffing the museum who are only too happy to chat to interested children and adults. I didn’t know …
Preparing for summer
I had a really long lie in this morning. I think I was catching up on all sorts of early starts (including last Monday’s pre-dawn morning) aswell as resting my body from yesterdays swim. I was surprised not to be at all achey today though. I could not have managed twice the swim in the …
Swimathon and on and on
I worked this morning. It went fairly slowly and I had swimming on my mind really. Meanwhile back at home Ady and the kids spent the morning in the garden. They moved all the containers round from the patio – where the chickens have been enjoying rather more free ranging than normal meaning nothing plant …
UK Aware
I booked tickets for UK Aware ages ago as it looked like a show the kids and I would enjoy. They’ve been to several big shows, accompanying Ady and I to some of the big NEC trade shows way back when they were still pushchair age along with Eco Build and the Car Show more …
Work and a bit of coughing
I worked all day today and Davies and Scarlett spent the day out at work with Ady. It’s easier during school holidays for them to spend a work day with him as they are less visible and prone to being asked the whole ‘no school today then?’ questions. I do like the fact that they …
Dahl and Dinos
This morning Davies and Scarlett had another episode in their rather workshop-tastic few weeks with a Roald Dahl Storybook workshop at Worthing Museum. I knew Toby was going along too and it turned out another home educated friend, Alex was also there. I hadn’t decided whether to stay or not and when I asked the …
Friends and sunsets
We had a much needed later start this morning, breakfasted, got dressed, packed some food and headed up to the allotment to meet up with Caz, Bid, Archie and Eliot. There is a large field behind the allotments, bordered by the allotments on the south side and woodland on the other three sides. Through the …
Experience seeking
Details of The Brighton and Hove Childrens Festival were put up on one of the local lists a few weeks ago and I went through the programme with great excitement as loads of the events looked like things Davies and Scarlett would be really interested in. Sadly about 4 of the best looking ones are …
Really should be just making zzzzs
instead of a whole load of letters on a blog post, but a quick one and then I’ll be off (alarm being set for 4am 😯 ) Today we had a long standing, weather permitting arrangement with Mike and Rose (the not swingers) to walk across the downs to Coombes Farm, the localish farm that …
Cough, cough, cough…
Cough. Cough. That was me ALL NIGHT BLOODY LONG! 🙁 And I hate coughs. I hate me coughing and I hate other people coughing. I particularly hate coughs that keep me awake when I should be asleep. I tossed and turned, hit the pillow, got up for a drink, got up for the toilet, threw …
Thank yous
I worked this morning. It was Baby Rhyme time which I did in the style of a 60 a day smoker, pausing to cough and wheeze between Humpty Dumptying and Row, Row, Rowing my boat. I was very pleasantly surprised to be presented with a card, chocolates, flowers and bottle of wine for me, along …
Dragons, trapeze and bloodletting
It’s all going on round here 🙂 I slept much better last night. I have this horrible suspicion that my sleeplessness (I get off to sleep fine but wake in the early hours and can’t get back to sleep again) could be due to alcohol consumption. My drinking has crept up again to levels that …
Melting Pot
I worked this morning while Dad was here with Davies and Scarlett. My parents are off to China for a month next Tuesday and we’ll miss Dad lots, childcare and company both, although I am pleased they are doing this trip which has been quite a while in the planning and is something Dad particularly …
I’ve booked a couple of craft workshops at Making Space – really it is too far away (a 50 minute drive on a good clear run, could be 2 hours on a bad day) but the prices are good, they come highly recommended on the local HE list and I’m always up for travelling for …