Always make me smile 😉 It was Pulborough Brooks day today. We’ve not made the last two – in December it was the day after NicCamps and our mad day trip to France so we’d not got home til 2am the day before and if I recall correctly we weren’t actually even out of bed …
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Weekend
Saturday We had half a plan to visit the allotment and go for a walk along the downs in the morning. Dad arriving just as we were getting motivated to get dressed scuppered that idea. It was lovely to see Dad though, he’s been calling over fairly regularly lately and it’s nice to just sit …
Can’t be bothered to think of a title
I was off for the day being Nicola at the library. It was baby rhyme time today – we had a good sized turn out of about 15 babies and 15 adults which is comfortable capacity in the junior section. I’m trying to ring the changes a bit with the songs as I’m getting bored …
What’s the opposite of hard work?
Soft play! As part of my One Event A Month for local HEors today was a meet up at the local soft play place. I’d negotiated discount and we had a fair few people expected to come along although they all seemed to have 3 year olds! Scarlett came and assisted me in getting a …
What time do you call this?
Urgh 🙁 Ady was up and out super early this morning to go to a trade fair in Birmingham. I did wake with his alarm (5am so he tells me!) and didn’t go straight back to sleep. My alarm went off at 7am (which is at least 90 minutes before I am happy to get …
Just keep swimming
No further snow fall here so we have a few grey clumps and the rest has gone away. Apart from our never-goes-out-in-her-garden next door neighbour, who still has a perfect back garden full of it. Quite tempted to ask her if Davies and Scarlett could go and play in it! Davies was really hungry and …
Snow
It snowed steadily all night so we had a pretty good covering of it this morning. We so rarely get snow right down here on the coast so it is a real cause for excitement. I could hear the chickens going mental so went to check on them and they were clearly terrified of it …
Where were we?
Friday seems a long time ago now. In the morning there must have been DSing and lego-ing just because that is what happens round here! I know when the food shopping arrived from Asda at about 1145am they had just put Star Wars on to watch. I also recall they had second breakfasts around 11am …
Knitty Nic
I worked all day today. It was pretty busy and went fairly quickly. I went to the shop in town that sells wool in my lunchbreak and got some half price balls and some brown wool for a hat for Ady that he’s requested. I also braved the post office and got the children’s first …
Oh bugger!
I woke up super early this morning (at half past seven!!!!) and was already up and getting dressed when Ady rang to say he’d heard on the travel news on the way into work that trains were disrupted around Worthing. I checked online and sure enough there were none running from Littlehampton to Brighton all …
British Wildlife Centre visit
I’ve been in touch with them and the only Mondays they have free in March / April are 2nd or 30th March. Either would suit me, probably more inclined to go for 30th as likely to be warmer – it’s mostly outside. Anyone interested before I open it out locally? We only need 20 people …
Yay Tim!
Dear Nicola, Thank you for your recent correspondence about the Government’s consultation into home education. I find it incredible that the Government needs to hold yet another consultation in the issue of home education. This is the third consultation in less than four years; with the latest guidelines having only been issued in 2007. I …
Daviesomatic
Ady was home this morning as he was supposed to be taking some photos of the allotment and getting me to update the blog about progress there and making a mini-film about seed potatoes. I feel a bit like the allotment is being hijacked but I am resisting it and ensuring we meet our own …
Givin’ it back
I have a plan to organise one Home Ed ‘event’ a month to advertise on the local list. The aim is to have something to invite the various new HEors I get contacted by on at least a monthly basis without having to necessarily meet them one to one, to ‘give something back’ as we …
And to Sunday
More rain 🙁 Just recently the children and I were talking about the beach in windy and rainy weather and how Ady and I used to go down there whenever there was a storm back before we had children as it was such an exhilarating place to be when the elements and nature were whipping …
Spit one, hurl one…
Yesterday I was at work all day. It was Baby Rhyme time day and felt like a very long day. Due to a change round in a couple of people’s shift patterns at work I am now working more with a particular colleague who is quite hard work. In the interests of not spending my …
Engaging
Scarlett’s super wobbly tooth came out first thing this morning. She came to wake me, turning the lights on as she did and thrusting it under my nose for inspection. She then came back up every 15 minutes or so until I finally got up! I sorted breakfast – for children and chickens, cleared up …
Tired. And cold. And cold. And a bit tired :(
Feeling a bit sorry for myself today but I suspect I am being tired, self-pitying and mopey rather than having any genuine reason for it so I’ll ignore myself on that score. Mum arrived in time for me to get to work where I had a nice morning. My boss is one of these Val …
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Swimming, stressing and swearing…
I’ve been feeling quite intolerant today. I suspect there is a hormonal reason for it too but I also seem to have had various triggers to set me off too. First thing (well as first thing as we get round these parts) Davies was being annoying to Scarlett so to get him to leave her …
O.M.G!
Just downloaded the free trial for education city and D has just got 100% for the first two literacy ones he tried. First was spelling dis and un words which he did well within time – the only one he asked for my help with was ‘disloyal’. Second was singular and plural nouns. He got …