Keep meaning to do a photoblog, I usually do it in April and had thought today would be a good day but forgot.
Alarm woke us this morning, although it was quite late. Davies and Scarlett have gotten into a real cycle of late nights and late mornings – we have 3 early mornings in a row coming up though so hopefully some earlier nights might follow.
Off to Pulborough Brooks for the monthly Home Ed meet up. It wasn’t terribly well attended today, just five families. Us, Lou who organises it and her two daughters, Magdalen and her two for the first time (we’ve met them a couple of times though and she is lovely, her son Z is 7 and gets on well with both Davies and Scarlett and she has a very charming 2 year old daughter M who reminds me a lot of Tarly at that age with her wild and freeness and the fact she is often covered in paint and felt tip as Tarly used to be when she was 2 / 3), Kent and his two who I’d not seen for ages, definitely not this year I don’t think and a brand new to the area HEor Helen with her nearly 8 yo daughter A. They live on a boat and 3 years ago pulled their two children out of school (she also has a 12 year old daughter) to go off sailing having sold their house. They are back for a year or two to earn some cash to fund the next adventure and docked up at Chichester in their boat. Their 12 year old has tried school but decided it isn’t for her after all so will be coming back out again. Her nearly 8 yo hit it off with Scarlett and they really clicked sharing a love of animals and not being particularly girlie girls :).
I walked round chatting to Helen mostly and Davies who seemed to be feeling slightly superior to the littler kids by virtue of being the oldest by a couple of years today walked round chatting to Helen and I too which was quite nice. He did go off and play with them while we sat in the park later though :).
We stayed until about 130pm then most of us had to head off so we disbanded. We called into Sainsburys on the way home for fruit (not a good time for eating seasonal fruit from the UK :(, looking forward to PYO opening next month. ). Back at home Tarly gave the ducklings a bath, Davies did some xboxing and I wrote up an account of the ducklings so far for my self suffish blog.
I then did some baking – quiche for dinner tonight and one for the freezer, macaroons with the spare egg whites and some flapjacks. Davies and Scarlett raided the face paints and dressing up box to make themselves into Harry Potter characters. I recognised Davies being HP from book covers but have no idea who Tarly was being. I’m also struggling to spell out all the names to meet Davies’ requests – fortunately I know Hermione from a Jilly Cooper novel I read in my teens 😉 although I have to confess that until HP found fame and it became a much said name I never really knew how to pronounce it 😆
Ady arrived home just as I served up dinner to Davies and Scarlett. He gave them an impromptu history lecture talking about Nelson, Portsmouth and the navy and then they got into their pjs and I read the second half of the latest Mr Gum book while Ady had a bath. I’d made the quiches and he made new potatoes and corn to accompany while I was in the bath.
I do like days where we meet new and interesting people 🙂