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We plough the fields and scatter…
A relaxed start to the day with Davies playing with some blocks while Scarlett put all sorts of clips and bows in my hair and we all watched cbbc together. Then we had a last minute rush to get out of the house on time to meet Julie, Jack and Maisie at the PYO farm. …
techie types
I’ve got firefox and have been using sage but actually it seems crap lately, struggling with feeds from some blogs and simply not picking up new posts on others. Anyone got any recommendations of anything better? That’s very easy to use 🙂
four people in one day
Had a really good morning at work; it was four of us there, Yvonne (Lancing Library’s boss), Frankie (my favourite workmate), Sarah (the stereotypical library worker) and me. Lots of laughs and lots of catching up as I’ve not seen any of them for a while as they all happened to be on annual leave …
It’s oh so quiet
Ady decided to take both children to work with him this morning to be sure of being back for Badgers later. Ady taking one or both children off was always part of the MasterPlan moving forward. We like the idea that they get a good idea of what our jobs involve (and they both reckon …
And in summary
What a blah day today was 🙁 I got loads done – sorted out piles of washing (everything in the house is clean now, it all just needs putting away) – realised today it was too cold on the concrete patio to be pegging out washing in bare feet – oh the season is achangin’. …
Final chapter of Skylark book
I emailed David Albert, the author of And The Skylark Sings With Me to let him know how much I’d gotten out of reading his book and to thank him for his inspirational, challenging and thought provoking read. I had an email back from him today to thank me for my message, to let me …
But excuse me that is actually our dinner
We have this chicken called Freddie, s/he is big and extremely noisy. Last night at about 1am Ady woke me to tell me there was a fox circling the chicken run – he’d heard a big commotion out there and looked out the window to see it there pacing up and down but couldn’t find …
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Crimebustin’
When I was little my Mum used to buy presents for Frazer and I at Christmas and birthdays and wrap them up and pretend they were from our Grandad – her Dad, Frank. This was because from being an unreliable and rather crap father to her he had continued in a similar vein and was …
Quiet day
We popped along to the car boot sale this morning. A got a few bits, some t shirts for Davies, couple of videos and a Wallace and Gromit cd rom with some games on it, but it was a very quiet week there and rain threatened all morning. Once home I made popcorn and we …
Second Guessing Oneself
It’s been a funny few weeks. Lots going on with lots of it being the sorts of things which throw me off into periods of introspection, questionning, challenging and reevaluating. I’ve been involved in a long and wearying online debate about whether Home Education is indeed a lifestyle choice or simply an educational alternative; I’ve …
Spring 2008 NicCamps
I’m thinking of organising a Spring 2008 NicCamps in Wales. I’d really like to visit the Centre for Alternative Technology and I think as yet Davies and Scarlett are too young to get enough out of a visit to their ecocabins to justify the cost so a NicCamp nearby with a day visit to CAT …
Hurricane
We went to watch the Shoreham Airshow today. We’ve watched it for years from various locations. Initially we used to camp out for the day in the layby near the airfield and one year even snuck into the field next door to the runway (you wouldn’t be able to do that now, security gets tighter …
Seven then…
And despite the fact neither of them had gone to sleep any time before 10pm last night it was a morning which started way before 7am this morning. Davies was crazily excited and by the time I’d hastily scrambled into some clothes and got downstairs he was already on opening his second present. We’d brought …
A message from the birthday boy
Can I have a cuddle, while I’m still six!
A busy day today with me dashing off to my boss’s house for 830am ready to go up to Horsham library for a training session. Ady stayed home a bit later than normal until Lucy and The Rs arrived about 930am so that Lucy’s morning started as a slightly less unsociable time ;). Wendy (my …
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Wonky radar
I’ve been really frustrated at myself the last week or so for either utterly failing to just say what I knew full well people wanted to hear, or for not managing to articulate what I wanted to say. That, coupled with way too many incidents (many of my own making, clearly some sort of self-destruct …
Hurt me Rhonda
Last week Rhonda took a peck at Davies. It was fairly small and we dealt with it straight away by both setting Scarlett on her (she shouts as those chickens in a truly menacing fashion :lol:) and Davies went and picked her up. I’ve read that all the humans and other animals who live with …
Back to September
sort of like back to school but without the school bit 😆 We all went to bed early last night and were all up early this morning. I woke before 8am and knowing I had a job list I’d made for myself last night before going to bed I got up and made a start …
You will respect me ;)
title shamelessly nicked from one of Merry’s blogposts, but I feel justified in using it 😆 So, another September, another Davies’ birthday party extravaganza with themed baking, custom made goody bags, copious staging decorations and an inappropriate for the purpose of being adult in charge of a child’s birthday party cleavage revealing top. Back in …