Saturday was Wildlife Explorers. After a wobble last month Davies has decided to rejoin the younger group. I was quite surprised at his wobble, particularly as I suspect it has much to do with expectations of him to read and write, just at a point where he is doing well with both and making some …
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Friday? Can it really only be Friday?
We had a plan to meet Caz, Bid and boys at the allotment this morning so we headed up there and Bid and the boys joined us a while later. The weather has meant we’ve not spent much time at all there lately but it was good to see the onions and garlic Caz and …
Debrief, seed bomb, game pie
I worked this morning, just for 3 hours which went very quickly. I did the banking first thing and then had a 90 minute debrief of Chatterbooks session with Cara (Childrens Librarian) and Russell (Childrens Services Senior Librarian). They had various questions which I rather pre-empted by presenting them both with a report on the …
We break up, we break down
Up far too early this morning even with me more or less adjusted to the hour. Ady spirited the children away to spend the morning at Julie’s while I went off to work. I had been scheduled to work all day tomorrow this week but we had the ill-fated seed bomb workshop rescheduled for tomorrow …
A Choctastic Day
Tasha and I had decided as part of boycotting packaged Easter eggs we’d do some making chocolate treats this year with the kids so today was the nominated Chocolatiers Day. We nipped into Lancing first thing to collect some cling film and paint brushes from the pound shop along with some mini eggs and arrived …
We were supposed to be on a Dinosaur Walk this afternoon in Hastings but it had been postponed due to the weather leaving us with a free day. We are still 40 minutes behind the rest of the UK thanks to our 10 minute daily increments to catch up to the whole BST thing so …
Bloody met office!
We’d rather foolishly based our weekend plans around the weather forecast. Our original plan had been allotment with friends on Saturday afternoon, Sunday all day in the garden. We amended that when the weather forecast for today was dire and arranged to go to my parents for lunch instead. What actually happened was yesterday afternoon …
Premature April Showers
I worked this morning. I spent the first hour putting up a Chatterbooks display – I’d booked the public display space and have created a display using some photographs taken during the sessions and some artwork created during the sessions by the children. I did an hour on the Enquiry Desk (most of which I …
Maybe I really never will grow up
A much needed ‘day off’ today. I’ve missed Davies and Scarlett lots having not seemed to have actually spent much time exclusively with them this week. Davies had a bad dream in the night so I woke up with him in bed beside me anyway and Scarlett came and joined us so we had a …
Adding the ‘ola’
Work all day for me today. Davies and Scarlett went out with Ady for the day and had a good day apparently. I do miss them lots on my all day at work day each week :(. I was doing Storytime today which is the 3-5 year olds session we do each week where we …
33rpm
I’ve been sleeping badly lately, which is really annoying as there is no reason for it. I was thinking the other day about times in my life when I have had reasons to keep me awake – not many to be fair, either due to a charmed life or a lack of letting stuff worry …
Books! Books! Books!
Today’s blogpost title is brought to you by Roly Mole from The Fimbles 😆 I woke before my alarm (Scarlett had come into our bed in the night having had a bad dream and had then noisily got up and gone into Davies’ room) and listened to the sound of Davies and Scarlett chatting in …
Playing
This morning was a visit to a soft play centre. Julie and I used to meet there fairly regularly when it first opened about 4 years ago and it was all new and shiny but I’ve not been for well over a year and had heard it had gone downhill, indeed the last time we …
Sunday being self-suffish preparatoryish
A day at home planned for today, particularly as the weather forecast proved right and it was lovely and warm and sunny. Everyone slept in and Ady did a fab cooked breakfast at about 10am which saw us through the day. I’d brought home a Ray Mears dvd on Friday and the kids and I …
Saturday Surrey Science Circus
It rained pretty much solidly all day long on Saturday. Someone had linked on a local list weeks ago about the Surrey Science Circus which is in Guildford, only an hour away from us. Having missed the Brighton Science Festival (expensive rather than free and on a day I was working all morning) and not …
Friday I’m in fine voice
A work all day day for me. Dad was here in the morning so having made him a coffee and had a quick chat I headed off to work. James commented last weekend at how much I look like my Dad and it is something I see ever more in photos of myself these days. …
Practically an orgo-planner
We looked at Davies and Scarlett’s pit trap this morning to see whether they had caught any mini-beasts. They’d netted an ant and a couple of tiny wee bugs so we got out the eye-clops to try and get a better look. We couldn’t operate it properly though so gave up and returned the pit …
working and paddling and that
Caz, Bid, Archie and Elliot arrived at our house this morning while Davies and Scarlett were still breakfasting and indeed Scarlett was still in her pyjamas. It was only about 830am mind you, so still early for us ;). They were here to spend the morning with Davies and Scarlett while I went off to …
One a penny, two a penny
Today I have been eating mostly hot cross buns. Hot from the oven freshly cooked and then later on toasted (using that revolutionary bagel setting which truly has changed my life). And reading. Lots and lots of reading. Davies woke feeling fine but still covered in his rash on his arms, legs and cheeks. Scarlett …
Rash decisions
feel free to groan at the lazy title pun. Let’s get the rash stuff out of the way first. Both Davies and Scarlett have had unexplained rashes over the years a couple of times each. Scarlett has rather more delicate skin than Davies and has had a rash on her hands and wrists with the …