Oh I’m so well rounded…literally 😉
Work this morning for me, Ady took Davies and Scarlett off to Julie’s nice and early so I spent some time trying to get my new sewing machine working. I also spent some time tending to Candle. She is now at the point of dying and I am agonising over whether to let nature take it’s course or step in and intervene.
Hmm, no idea what happened there, it was a fairly long post and all there when I pressed save. Bum.
Will post about Candle later but what I had written had been the pre-decision I think :(.
So, I went off to work where I had a nice morning including a visit from Lucy which I felt I’d somehow conjured up by having been talking about her to both Ali on Monday and Julie on Tuesday and saying I’d not seen her for ages, so that was nice :).
I met Julie and all the children up at the stables. They’d been to Julie’s allotment in the morning and then to the stables for a picnic lunch which was where I joined them. The kids played and Scarlett rode Honey bareback back down to her field which she really enjoyed. Far more the sort of circus-style pony riding I think she’d been dreaming of :).
Back home the kids had a bath as they were filthy, while I put together an email for Bid about Forest School as he is leading some sessions at Etudeo for the next few weeks. He’s done some bushcraft courses himself but this gave him some ideas of what I thought had been good and bad about the sessions D&S did last year. On reading through I realised how very repeptitve some of my blogposts are 😳
We all got changed (although I got changed back again, I decided my Badger top really is too small and have handed it back to get a larger size ordered. I *think* I’m flattered that Julie must see me as smaller than I really am…) and headed to Badgers. We’re doing Adventure Badger this term as chosen by Davies. It’s his last term and he gets his Superbadger award at the end of term before starting Cadets in September.
Last night we made bicarb and vinegar volcanoes (not really sure why it fitted into adventure but it was timely at least). We did them out on the lawn and came back in. Julie didn’t intend talking through why the bicarb and vinegar reacted like that but I made them 😉 we talked about chemical reactions and also what makes a real volcano erupt. Then we did some filling out the Badgers recordss (called Badger passports) and I had an interesting chat with Daragh about how Home Ed works. He said if he was HE’d how he’d like it to happen which Davies and Scarlett told him is pretty similar to how it works for us with lots of finding things out from the internet, books, TV and even computer games. He wanted to know if we followed a timetable like at school and Scarlett explained that ‘we ask Mummy questions and she helps us find out the answers’ which is pretty much our style summed up I think. Davies mentioned lots of playing and visits to places too.
We arrived home, closely followed by Ady and Frazer who was coming over for dinner. The kids requested a sleepover so they went off to watch films in bed in Davies’ room while we chatted and had a lovely curry. I think Frazer had a bit of an epiphany moment about Home Ed when we candled the ducks eggs we have in the incubator. We’ve got 3 out of the 6 with definite movement inside, so have discarded the no good ones and were all in awe of the ones with little soon-to-be ducklings wobbling around inside. Will try and get some photos tonight, they were much clearer than any of the chicken or bantam eggs have been when we’ve candled those. Frazer and I agreed that it would have been incredibly cool to have hatched ducklings when we were seven.
I think Davies had had too much sun as he was burning up and shivering at about midnight and wandered downstairs for a cuddle and chat and was still awake when I went up to bed.
i think you may have accidentally pressed post too soon!
am going to bed, but i think perhaps intervene, if you are gaonising over it, its cos prob you think that is the best thing, but wish it wasn’t?
Comment by HelenHaricot — 22 April 2010 @ 12:01 am
that has got to be the shortest post on here ever!
why is gina ford staring at me from your flickr badge?!
very sorry to hear bout Candle 🙁
Comment by Liza — 22 April 2010 @ 12:29 am
I think if it reaches pint where. They no longer enjoy lying on sun and being petted it’s time. For us with dogs it was often around the time they hot incontinent. Not because of mess but because it seemed to distress them so
much and they got so anxious it was exhausting for them.
Comment by Joyce — 22 April 2010 @ 2:56 am