Yesterday continued to go well – Vikki came up for dinner which was really nice. She is a funny girl, very quiet and I think pretty shy but every so often she comes out with statements like ‘I’ve been so excited about you coming’ which makes me think she is keen to be friends but just doesn’t quite know how to make the right moves. It’s getting easier though and with Ady there too it always feels like it flows a bit better.
I cooked – I was baking bread anyway so make some garlic, rosemary and mozarella flatbread to go with the pesto pasta that Vikki had suggested was a good dinner for her (being a veggie and all) and Vikki brought up ice cream for pudding. It was a really nice evening in the end with plenty of chatting and finding out more about the island and how Vikki finds being here.
She left and we packed the kids off to bed and were not long behind them – it had been a very early start after all!
Today we met the ferry and got our food shopping and our first couple of Lovefilm dvds, along with a letter from TV licencing 🙂 Still no brushcutter from amazon, that is now being chased up as they are trying to say it was delivered on 10th May and I should check with my neighbours incase they took it in! 😆
Stuart Poole the headmaster I went to see last week had requested another meeting with us so I took Ady along too, all part of my Grand Plan to reassure 🙂 The reply back regarding flexischooling had been met with a no – ‘full time or nothing’ which is the best possible outcome from our perspective. I get to say I tried to keep the school open without compromising our educational philosophies, the school closes which is probably best for us as Home Educators, Morag the unpopular school teacher leaves so when the little ones reach school age in 2 years we’ll get a new and better teacher for them (my kids will both by secondary age by then anyway) and we’ve started to build a relationship with someone nice and decent with contacts. He said he will probably have a caretaker role in the school while it’s closed and visit once or twice a term and if we wanted to borrow any resources from the building and use it like a library then we are very welcome. So hurrah for that 🙂
Tonight I’m doing Come Dine With Me and the castle washing machine is now fixed so I’m off to run a couple of loads through there. The chickens and ducks are doing fine with being left to their own decices and I think we have sorted out the pig delivery dilemma 🙂
Hurrah 🙂
I wonder if Vikki has been looking forward to you coming not jusy for your valued company (I miss you!) but becuase you will all four shake things up a little which is needed before they can settle down.xx
Comment by Mich — 16 May 2012 @ 5:32 pm