Blimey, that’s a catch up and a half. Will do individual days rather than one HUGE blogpost. Don’t expect the individual days to be small or anything though! 😆 Monday morning was lots of laundry and some online sorting out type stuff. Scarlett spent about 2.5 hours in her bedroom tidying up. I did offer …
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Rare Breeds
Not Goddards though, there were 7 of those (although there should have been 9, so perhaps rarer than planned!). The Weald and Downland museum is somewhere both Ady and I remember going on school trips to as kids and somewhere we took Davies and Scarlett a few times when they were much smaller but it …
Catching up
Thursday We were waiting on hearing from Ali as to whether they were coming over and happily got a phonecall to say they were. I had to go to the post office to collect a letter that hadn’t had sufficient postage on it so suggested to Davies and Scarlett we walk into Lancing to do …
End of term
Way too early start this morning as the children were off to Julie’s for the morning while I worked and Ady insists I get up to help chivvy them along. They were gone by 8am so I did some chicken run maintenance outside in my nightie before coming in to get dressed and then adding …
To look at when I have time
Not giving up on those dolphins just yet – I will make life have a porpoise this year!
Tuesday on Tuesday, how about that then?
And it’s this Tuesday as in today and everything :). We had a fairly lazy morning which was nice and much needed. We left home about 1130 to meet up with E, M and T at Stanmer Park. M and T are two same age as them boys that Davies and Scarlett met at Forest …
Monday
Almost there, almost there! Monthly HE Pulborough Brooks walk day and the ideal chance to catch up with Tasha and Toby and Julie, Jack, Maisie and Lorna all in one go. The weather was lovely and with eating cereal in the car and hauling out of bed we managed to collect Tasha and co at …
Saturday and Sunday
Thanks to a bad night we were up later than planned and thanks to intermitant showers we were slower packing up than planned too. Ady went off to empty the loo while I dismantled the inside of the tent and packed everything up. We did take down the flysheet slightly damp (and rather sandy) but …
Friday
Our last full day. It was a beautiful sunny morning and the children all wanted to do beach and Shell Island based stuff. They went off with the inflatable boat to sit in the sand dunes and write ghost stories. Marcus and Michelle went off to the onsite shop and Ady and I went to …
Thursday
Ady only had one pair of grubby jeans and one pair of soggy jeans. Davies only had a very wet pair of shoes and a pair of jeans that we’d packed without realising they should have been in his ‘to grow into’ pile and lots of shorts. But it was raining. And quite cold. We’d …
Wednesday – now with photos (not of dolphins)
Was supposed to be Dolphin Day. After my initial contact number for Shearwater boat cruises had proved no good (boat not working) I was given a mobile number and the name ‘Jason’ which sounded a little dodgey and I suspected the dolphins might be inflatable ones. I did leave a message on his voicemail but …
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Tuesday
CAT day. I’ve been wanting to go to CAT for a couple of years now and this was the planned day out of the week. I’d negotiated a fairly good price including two free adult admissions over the phone with the educational officer but Michelle trumped that with the offer in the HEAS leaflet. The …
Monday
After a night of really dreadful weather (will concede a minor benefit of sand here, the wetter it gets the firmer it seems to grip tent pegs, unlike hard ground turning to mud) and with the promise of yet more rain meaning the sand dunes wouldn’t be being ‘enjoyed’ by the children we decided to …
Sunday
There had been some rain in the night but the morning dawned bright and sunny. The children went off exploring and soon came back to say they’d discovered the sea and could they go in. After suncreaming and swimsuit finding all the children headed off and Michelle, Suzy and I went with them. Suzy went …
Saturday
Actually I don’t seem to have blogged Friday but it was far to far away ago now to do it any justice. I worked all day. It was fine, I did Baby Rhyme Time and was pleased to have an influx of new babies rather than the slightly too old toddlers we have been getting …
Shell Island
I suppose I should get on with my blogging really, what with all this catching up to be done. Rather than sitting around playing bejeweled blitz ;). I was waiting for all my pictures to be on flickr before blogging but I guess I can just drop them in later. And actually the lack of …
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Okay so technically it’s not a deckchair and it’s not actually up his nose. But we covered perspective, creative thinking, photography and brought our new curriculum to a wider audience 😉
Kids online
The litter collection piece is now online 🙂 Link here Shame on Lancing litter louts Published Date: 07 July 2009 TWO children collected sacks of rubbish during a one-mile walk from their home to illustrate the dangers of litter. Davies and Scarlett Goddard collected the rubbish as part of their RSPB Wildlife Action Awards. Walking …
Unexpectedly home
No, not Ady walking in on something he shouldn’t have, just us being home for the day when it wasn’t our plan. Both children ended up in bed with me this morning but it was so hot we were all up just after 8am. We had been planning to go to Paradise Park with Tasha …
Buy a jumbo jet?
A new jumbo jet, depending on how it’s equipped can cost from £150 million to £260 million so it’s rather out of our budget. So we’ve checked on ebay but there don’t seem to be any for sale 🙁 I’ve researched the second hand market but it would appear there isn’t much call for them,although …