Saturday morning I worked. It didn’t feel much like work to be honest, I was very much in holiday-mode and as there were plenty of staff in I was given the whole four hour shift to mess about with various displays. I put up my 12 days of Christmas display, which I’m pleased with, it …
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Somewhere over the rainbow
weigh a pie. We had a nice leisurely start to the day and while Davies and Scarlett played / DS’d / watched TV I pottered around doing various unexciting things like laundry, washing up, putting a loaf of bread on ready for lunch and then got totally distracted by tidying and ended up clearing out …
Festive. And Fun.
I was working a 12 hour shift today and thanks to my Mum being akward generally about childcare at the moment Ady made a decision to take Davies and Scarlett to work with him for the day. She’d really upset him yesterday on the phone (which is actually quite a feat, I might be easily …
More pieces of paper. And quadruple booked
When I went to bed last night – at 2am -it was with the knowledge that I didn’t have to be up too early this morning. The kids were awake just after 8am though and being noisy. I yelled at them twice to be quieter and then gave in and got up. I then had …
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Pieces of paper
A necessary late start this morning for the children and I. We’d already decided on the way home last night to have a day at home today to recover but as Tuesdays are mad enough with nothing other than our regular ‘after school’ things that still doesn’t make for laziness ;). Breakfast, dressed and things …
Another day in The Smoke
or ‘black bogies r us’. 😆 Back up to London again on Monday, train this time. Ady was with us again as he has a few odd days holiday to use up before the end of the year so he’d booked some days off here and there where we already had plans he could come …
Sunday Rainbow Warrior
Oops, getting really behind here. I’m out late three nights this week too so need to catch up now otherwise I never will. So Sunday then. Someone had posted to our local list a while back about Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior being docked at London for the weekend and boarding passes to have a tour being …
Livin’ in a cardboard box then
Saturday A fairly slobbing about start to the day. High wind and heavy rain overnight had trashed the garden so Ady spent some time outside righting things, Davies spent some time on the pc playing online Wallace and Gromit games, Scarlett made potions with a perfume kit I’d picked up earlier in the week at …
Livin’ in a box
will be the title of todays blog post, I just won’t be getting round to writing it til tomorrow. Which might actually be later today given it’s already 2am, but then again, given my history it may well be properly tomorrow after all. It will however include shouting, rain, cars breaking down, me eating lentils …
Blast from the past. And the morning after the night before with added nursery rhymes
Thursday We were supposed to be going to London for the day as a local HEor had gotten tickets for the Maharaja exhibition at the V&A. I’d already thought on Wednesday that we might be better off having a day at home but set my alarm to get up, make picnic lunch and rouse Davies …
Tell me why?
Super early start today which is always just horrid. Actually it probably isn’t early by Normal People Standards but anything before 8am, particularly involving alarm clocks is early for Davies, Scarlett and I. I got up first, staggered around with no clothes on but contact lenses in and got them breakfast then went back upstairs …
Penultimate Mad Tuesday
This morning we went off to Bognor for a new Home Ed Book Club. There are two groups being run together in someone’s house. A 6+ group in the kitchen and a 12+ group in the conservatory. I signed us up when it was first mentioned as I thought it would be a good way …
Monday is washing day
Shockingly despite three days at home last week we ended up at home again today. I had planned to go out but the weather looked grim again (in the end it cleared up but it certainly didn’t look promising at 10am when we were chatting about what to do today), the children were both up …
Sunday
I slept pretty badly thanks to reading various Home Ed lists last night with varying degrees of horror and then going off to bed thinking about it all. The wind and rain were still howling around the house, which felt both appropriate and annoying… Which led to a late rising this morning, for me at …
Speedblogging
Work for me this morning. I did various things, can’t be bothered to type them all out but it was a good morning:). Back at home Ady and the children had tidied up the downstairs bathroom and then the kids had got art and craft stuff out and were applying glue and glitter to paper …
Joy and laughter
A soggy start to the morning. Last nights rain had continued all through the night and there were puddles and flood all around the place. I nearly slipped over and got soaked just going to let the chickens out. We were car-less and utterly without motivation to go anywhere in such dire weather so we …
Crossed wires
I often feel really uninspired blogging on the days I work all day each week. Not because I don’t enjoy my job, I do but it feels like a tiny thing I compared to the rest of my week. I hesitate to use the word ‘respite’ because that indicates I need some sort of rest …
Quiet competition and foiled efficiency
I slept in this morning so everything was much later than it should have been really. We had no plans for the day until Badgers this evening and I offered a few choices but both Davies and Scarlett were happy for another day at home really. We watched Evacuation together which we’re all really enjoying …
Busy doing nothing
An at home day again today. Days at home are always the ones that have me fretting about my laissez-faire attitude towards the kids Home Ed. Is it neglectful? Would it stand up to scrutiny? We tend to have a pattern of getting on with our own things when we’re at home, which in the …
Autumn Walk
A welcome break in the rain yesterday although the pay off for sunshine and clear skies was bitter cold. Winter is really in the air. It always seems sudden in November when October is still so often T shirt weather. Yesterday was Pulborough Brooks Home Ed walk and we were hoping to catch up with …