Today was Open Farm Sunday and last year we simply went to the nearest farm which was at Lancing College (posh private boarding school up the road from us), this year I arranged for us to go to an organic farm. It was a bit further away but whilst Lancing College farm was great for …
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Sing a song of sixpence
We all walked into Lancing together this morning; I went into the library and did more photocopying of songsheets while Ady, Davies and Scarlett had a wander round to look at the rest of the festival stuff happening. They bumped into our next door neighbour who gave them children a pound coin each which is …
Hanging gardens of Babylon
anyone remember those days? Ah those happy days when blogging was more about influencing the google ads and not using paragraphs than anything else! 😆 There is no relevance to this, I just couldn’t think of a title by the way. A fairly quiet morning as the children were playing with their new DS games …
Beep beep beep beep beep…
I was woken this morning not by the cockerel but by Tarly and Ady under the bedroom window reorganising the chicken area. Scarlett was wearing her winter boots and a nightie 😆 I went off to work leaving them to it and came back 5 hours later to find them in the same place. All …
Wet on Wednesday
We has this plan, Julie and I, for today. It involved her not having given birth yet and the weather being nice. Given her due date is Friday and Goddard babies seem to birth early and we are at the end of May with record lovely weather for the last few weeks I thought the …
Pretending to be Home Educators ;)
More chicken news first – we have a new home for the fiesty cockerel – as an aside, Tarly calls him the ‘feasty’ cockerel as she always forgets the word ‘fiesty’ (ironically!) and if he had a bit more meat on him he would indeed be feasty :lol:. I’ve agonised over the whole thing feeling …
Chicken politics and crazy hair
Ady worked this morning while the rest of us had a lie in to recover from the weekend. Scarlett crept into my bed around 7am so my last couple of hours were more dozing interspersed with occasional Scarlett-chatter which tends to be random, fast and always requiring some level of response :roll:. It was Ben …
All came flooding back…
Ady, who is wonderful – do I ever mention that? – got us all up and provided tea and breakfast etc. this morning stupidly early so we could be out of the house before 9am. I’d checked aaroutefinder and got a journey time of 3 hours, the sat nav said 2.5 and actually we did …
Chuck another sausage on!
Today has been a day of many provisional plans which including Ady working, us going Suffolk way to camp with The Barts, Ady working again and finally Ady not working but working on Monday therefore it not being worth us going camping for one night and having to pack up early before the party tomorrow …
and the dish ran away with the spoon
Work all day for me today. Banking first thing followed by Baby Rhyme Time and then a fairly frantic rest of the morning. It all quietened down in the afternoon and at times positively dragged though. I was very excited to see British strawberries in the supermarket at lunchtime so bought a couple of punnets …
Off we go with a yo-ho-ho
We’d planned to meet Lucy and The Rs at Drusillas today and due to last minute tweakings of plans last night they ended up coming to us so we could travel together. So lunch packed and seating arrangements in the Nicmobile organised we waved goodbye to David (thank you neighbour, all I needed when arse …
So, marks out of ten…
Off to work this morning for me. Ady is away which meant it was even earlier to rise to ensure everything was sorted before we were off. Today was Davies and Scarlett’s last day at Archie and Elliots as they have got tenants for their house, bought their camper van and are off WWOOFing for …
More home education
as in staying at home rather than education particularly :). Both children were quite specific in their requests to not go out and to not see anyone today. So that’s what we did. We watched some tv, I forget quite what now although I know I got engrossed in some ‘extreme engineering’ show about building …
Yesterday….
all my troubles seemed so far away. Then I went to the dentist! Excessive weekend all round meant we were happy to have an at home day starting with a lie in. We watched some schools TV and then Davies and Scarlett sort of melted away to play. Toys of choice were Betty Spagetty, geomags …
Fine friends
I’ve just had the most lovely weekend away with friends :). I worked Saturday morning where I was in a state of complete giddyness and excitement and told everyone I met (including complete strangers who had just come in to borrow books!) that I was off to London, leaving my children overnight for the second …
That’d be Friday then
This morning we did various things including: Playing some games on the BBC bitesize literacy and numeracy that Michelle linked to yesterday. Davies was okay but not particularly interested in the literacy ones, which I could understand as they were sort of boring and a bit testing for the sake of testing but he loved …
It’s just another working Thursday
At home the children were with Ady this morning and my Dad this afternoon. Ady and Scarlett spent some time tidying up the bathroom and then all three of them moved the chicks outside. They have their own self contained residence within the main chicken run and it’s been a bit like a zoo out …
England 2 Columbia 0
Today we were mostly listening to Kirsty MacColl in the car. The children were aware of her work from Fairtytale of New York and more recently In These Shoes? but today we had some Days, some There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis, a bit of Perfect Day and our personal …
Nic Camps 2008
If you should be on the yahoo group and aren’t, if it you would like to be please let me know and I’ll get it sorted. Scheduled NicCamps for 2008 currently are: June 15th- 22nd when Ady and I are planning to camp at Shell Island with a visit to CAT during that week. Could …
Happy Birthday Ady!
44 today. I remember my Dad being 44, I was nine and he came dancing into my bedroom singing ‘I’ve got the key of the door, I’ve never been 44 before!’ which was rather out of character and now I wonder if he was possibly drunk at the time :lol:. After discussion on birthday gifts …