See now this is what this Home Education lark is all about!Have spent a lovely morning at Julie’s with two other Activeo families. Stuart and his son J, who I have met before at another event when J was with his Mummy instead, and Becky and her twin girls, A and R.J and A&R are …
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Gonna find myself a passionGonna get myself a causeGonna have an opinion on everythingFrom sushi to dinosaurs Gonna get myself educatedGonna strive to be more well-readGonna dissect and repeat verbatimWhat the great philosophers said Gonna pepper my conversationWith topical facts and quotesGonna study Latin and ancient GreeceAnd learn Shakespeare by rote Gonna read all the …
A lovely weekend…Saturday night Mum and Dad babysat while we went for a really nice meal here with Lynda and Stuart. Monster was a bit clingy about us (well me really!) going out and insisted I gave him his milk before we left (which when he dribbled quite a lot of made me think it …
Sunny Saturday spent in Southsea…So far its been a lovely day today, the sun has shone, the kids have been on their utter best behaviour and probably what’s put a big spring in my step – for probably the first time ever when I came downstairs from getting dressed this morning, Ady glanced at me …
we’ll try that again then shall we…Very. very cross with blogger about this one, it was a post i had been sort of composing all night and now a lot of it has gone as once i had typed it i ‘let it go!’ think Joyce’s cunning plan of doing it in word then copying …
middle of the night musings…
Pooh day so not going to dwell on it too much…Everyone was tired after a long and busy week, I had a headache, took the kids to Boots for a few bits where Monster was doing that little kid thing of touching everything – and I mean everything, trailing his hands along the shelves, smearing …
Hmm, never been stuck for a title before…Uneventful but in a good way kind of day really. Up – well pretty much all night, but early, lots of playing went on with the small people while I spent a bit of time on the computer – starting to get out toys for them instead of …
and the rain came down in torrents!what a dreadful night! It rained, it blew, it thundered and lighteninged, at one point all the upstairs windows blew shut, and throughout all this drama Teeny was awake and wriggling! Went to bed at about 11, read for an hour, so went to sleep at about midnight – …
so that’s it then… google ads – gone!fun trying (although even I knew it was futile really) to influence said google ads – gone!not sure why some of the blogs still have them though… is it midway through a changeover? have the ones to get the blogger bar been randomly selected? have i been spookily …
FYI – from the blogger site – is there any point in going on??? What is the Navbar?The Blogger Navbar replaces the default ad block formerly inserted on blogspot.com pages with a more useful navigation tool. Navbar features include:Blogger: takes you back to www.blogger.com.Search: searches the blog you’re viewing, via Google SiteSearch.BlogThis!: a popup for …
Right then Home Education!Today we have ticked off the following in our quest for a rounded, enjoyable and adequate education:Socialisation – we spent the afternoon at Rachel’s house where the children were ‘exposed’ to three other children. Two the same age as Monster, one a boy, one a girl and a small baby. Aside from …
picture the scene…Nic’s blog, a tumbleweed blows gently across the dotty background, the incidental music kicks in, a guitar being plucked in a melancholy,bluesy, have no purpose to my day type tune, Nic’ wanders into shot kicking a tin can mindlessly which cannons off of the blogger toolbar type thing that’s replaced my google ads. …
Today I washed a Pteradactyl!and I believe it to be a good example of the unfit state of my mind that I looked at the plastic toy for ages, utterly convinced that it had been much bigger before going in with the whites on a boil wash and had somehow shrunk…until I went to the …
there’s an old piano and they play it loud behind the green door, when i said ‘Joe sent me’ someone laughed out loud behind the green door, wish they’d let me in so I can find out what’s behind the green door… ever wander what happened to those childhood heros and idols – or worse …
A lovely day… spent in a rainy garden (not dissimilar to that hanging one, what was it called again?)Awoken from a very peaceful dream at 4am by the rhythmic chanting of ‘Mummm-meee, Mummm-meee’ via the baby monitor Teeny came into our bed where she proceeded to change positions every two and a half minutes, kick …
waving at the helicopter (and the pilot waved back! why isn’t it wove?)
a nice one of M and Teeny – anyone else reminded of Abba?
Ady and his little clones! Play up Pompey (not particularly luck inducing mind, they drew!)
the ‘fluke’ nice shot while trying to set up for the chaotic group shot!