When Nic first met Ali it was all about Home Ed ‘You do, I do it, let’s meet up’ Ali said ‘Come to my house for a visit, the kids should all get on, we can talk about John Holt and the LEA, what could possibly go wrong?’ But as time went by and we …
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Happy Birthday to…
Ali 🙂 Have a great day with lots of love from Ady (in boots), Nic, Davies and Scarlett xxx
Feels like Friday…
Mostly I’m sure due to being with Ali today when that is normally a ‘Friday thing’. Forgot to mention yesterday so I’ll mention now that Davies was playing with the xylophone yesterday and picking out the W&G tune he’d learnt on the piano on Sunday including carrying on and learning the next bit. He did …
Plan B
We were supposed to be going to a local-ish big park today with Lucy, Richard and Rebecca. But it rained. And it rained. So via text Lucy and I decided it would be A Bad Idea to drive all the way there in the rain and then walk round in the rain and then drive …
Happy Birthday to…
Jules – have a great day 🙂
Erm….
Monday Vet’s first thing to take Malice back. As expected she had to have her eye removed. It was a straightforward procedure and they unwired her jaw at the same time. She now looks very beaten again as she was shaved around the eye, under the chin and on her leg for various tubes and …
Cool clothes
This rather wonderful company sell fab and funky kids clothes. If I get a big enough order they will sell to me at wholesale (which is half price) plus p&p. Anyone interested in ordering anything? Have a look at the website or even request a catalogue. Julie has loads of their stuff for Jack and …
Cycling. With shoes.
My Dad’s birthday today. He is 68. That sounds terribly old – even to him, he tells me. I think he had a nice day. We’d wanted to go over to them today really – it’s just so much easier, there is way more room, we get to go home when we want to rather …
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Happy Birthday to…
Karen B 🙂 Have a great day!
Meaner than a junkyard dog…
A highly productive day today. 🙂 First thing the plan was to sort out the playroom. It started as one of those mammoth tasks that half an hour in you wish you’d never started as the first task was to go through all the dressing up stuff, bag up anything outgrown ready to be cleaned, …
Some photos of stuff this week
First of all Lucy on her birthday in the park with her cake. Ben, Beth, Davies and Tarly sitting playing with a magnetic drawing toy. Davies was telling the story and Beth was illustrating it. It kept them amused for ages: Yesterday at Ali’s Ali made bath bombs with the children. We used the little …
Ffffriday
A mixed bag of a day really. Last night I noticed that Malice’s very bad eye (the one that had been sewn shut as opposed to the one that simply doesn’t work) which had been a bit discharge-y for about 24 hours had stuck shut with gunk. I bathed it open and realised it was …
Books, books, books…
This morning for some odd and unexplained reason the children played with the Bob the Builder toys. Well actually they didn’t really, the BTB toys (as in the plastic versions of Scoop, Muck and Dizzy and Roly too, Lofty and Wendy join the crew etc.) are in the same box as a set I picked …
Is it just me…
Or is anyone else sniggering slightly that as soon as the schools break up and children can start to enjoy all the lovely weather we’ve been having, it stops! 😆
First the worst, second the best, third the one with the hairy chest!
Yep, it’s the school summer holidays and the school children are out in force everywhere! 😉 Eavesdropped with mild amusement to all the chants, goading and teasing I recall from my own playground 20 odd years ago. So, a catch up then. Monday Barbara, who we affectionately know as ‘The Babs’ and family were coming …
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Some Scarlettisms
We’re listening to Terrible Tudors lots still and have learnt the words to the Henry VIII song that Poppy sang at camp. Except Tarly, who has not had occassion to come into contact with the word eighth before insists it is a song about ‘Henry the Wolf’. Is doing lots of math-y stuff. Yesterday morning …
And….
For anyone who doesn’t obsessively visit all the links in the side bar of my blog go and check this site out. I don’t often recommend links and given I was a ‘plus size lady’ even before I had children and OK with that I don’t want anyone to think I am justifying obesity or …
Back later with more but….
We’re watching Seawatch and I’ve just volunteered as a volunteer or organiser for our local bit of beach for Beachwatch. So, anyone want to come stay with us and join in 16 and 17 September? 🙂
Feed animals in the zoo, and then later a movie too…
I can’t manage this blogging infrequently business, I forget all the tiny trivial bits that make up my normal posts! The days seem to merge together (oh yeah, two of them did :lol:) and I forget all the details. Friday I wanted to do some baking so I made a few batches of banana cakes …
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