Is what Tarly wants to know, having listened to the song on the way over to Ali’s today she got out of the car, looked up at me with her big blue eyes and asked ‘Mummy, where did all the good ‘peoples’ go? Davies paraphrased yet further and said they were on the TV shows. …
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Christmas Card List
About to send the list out by email but wanted to offer to any last takers. So far we have: Me, Alison, Kirsty, Joyce, Sally, Merry, Helen, Karen B and Sarah. Basically its on the same principle as the MP one, send me your address and I’ll add you to the list, then you send …
Learning to love Lidl!
Kids not up for much at all today. They were still on Reading time last night and didn’t go to sleep til about 9.30pm but still managed to get up by about 6.30am. Davies steadily declined throughout the day and by mid afternoon it was clear he was not just tired, he also has Boyflu …
This amused me greatly today. Infact I really did LOL
Recipe for a lovely weekend,
There should be friends, singing, laughter, plenty of alcohol, lovely food cooked, drunken and riotous behaviour (which to really qualify as drunken and riotous must be offensive to at least two other people), no objections from anyone to children remaining naked or pj clad for the entire duration of the weekend, a touch of voyeurism …
Birthday Monitor Says….
Happy 8th Birthday Poppy Pip 🙂 Hope you have a great day! From all here: Ady, Nic, Davies, Scarlett, Chris, Alison, Poppy, Tilda, Elijah and Lula xxx
Okay so he went back to autonomy again ;-)
Not interested in learning about weather from a book he demanded his pirate ship be brought downstairs to play with so he’s been using his imagination all creatively with that for about an hour, watching Lazy Town as he goes. We did learn a bit about weather and temperature anyway as we suddenly had lashing …
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What was it I said about temperatures?
A fairly educational day here today although I really should be following a few things up with Davies as I promised instead of sitting here 😉 First thing the children played with playdough while watching Class TV. There was a really good programme on about an apple tree which told the story of the seasons …
When good autonomy goes bad!
Just been reading the Dr Seuss Book of Sleep (or some other such story) as a bedtime story to Davies. It touched somewhere on the concept of minus two and he roused from his near-asleep state to ask what that meant. Erm! Very easy when you know but one of those situations where I am …
Backyardigans…
Is what we have mainly be doing today 🙂 The children, Davies in particular love it, so we’ve watched it, played the game on the nickjr website and then made some playdough and made all the characters from it. Well I say we, aside from entering the competition via the website and making the playdough …
And because they deserve a post each ;-)
Happy 10th Birthday to Chelsea 🙂 Double figures, wow!
Birthday monitor truly on the ball says…
Happy 9th Birthday Miss Poppy Price 🙂 Hope you have a lovely day tomorrow, a fab birthday treat on Thursday and we’re looking forward to seeing you at the weekend 🙂 Lots of love from Ady, Nic, Davies and Scarlett xxx
Education – what a departure ;-)
I’ve been pondering education, autonomy, our approach, where it might all end up and so on recently. I’ve been involved in several conversations with people who have asked questions which I have had to really think about to answer and then ended up thinking about lots more afterwards. I’ve read odd remarks here and there …
Grr! Ebay amateur :-(
Every time I have an ebay frenzy I always get the postage wrong. I have previously wildly over priced postage and then felt awful at the post office when it is clear from the sticker that I have made a fortune from overcharging. The next time I ebay I am mindful of this and go …
Unremarkable…
Would probably best describe the day really. The man came to look at my laptop so that’s in hand but I failed rather miserably to make any of the phonecalls I had planned. Davies and I were on TV – which was the first time I’ve seen myself on TV aside from home videos which …
Should probably mention…
that me and Davies will be on TV later today. The show we went to London to film a couple of weeks ago will be on The Baby Channel (Sky 285) from 2.45pm. Feeling quite wobbly about how I’ll come over (and how I’ll look – oh shallow Nic!) as I’ve never been on TV …
I’m Tiredy
As Tarly would say! Stayed up til nearly 2am this morning chatting online, which had so not been my plan but was nice anyway 🙂 Need to rouse myself to unpack from the weekend, sort out some washing as it’s a nice bright day and might even dry outside, get myself and the children dressed, …
The Weekend…
Don’t think I have the energy to do a blow by blow account of the weekend really – we arrived home having taken at least an hour longer than expected due to some traffic jam (which we never found the source of) meaning we did the first 40 miles in 2 hours 🙁 Tarly had …
Birthday Monitor Says….
Happy 1st Birthday Alys! Lovely to be with you on your birthday 🙂
Beaning…
Arrived last night to a rapturous welcome from Elinor, wine and beer from Chris and a guided tour from Helen. The house is simply gorgeous – a real dream home and the peeps out of the windows this morning look it to be a lovely little village too. The children ran around until at least …