Monthly Archives: April 2010

Hope it wasn’t the end of it too! Glorious weather this week. Not during monday evening, although it was warm. Small and I had an active day – he had a drs appt (his ears are now fine) in the … Continue reading →

When I gave up work, I gave up my car as well. (Well, actually, I gave it back when we moved, but close enough ) Since we’ve been here I think there’s been about twice when having only one car … Continue reading →

I laid in this morning – a couple of bad nights earlier in the week and I was very short on sleep. So when soa decided that we could sleep this morning I think the rest of the family thought … Continue reading →

Following lots of helpful comments on fb, here and via email (thanks all!) Big has ramped up her ideas about going into business for herself. She’s being a lot more pragmatic about it this time around, and we discussed market … Continue reading →

This post has been sitting in draft in note form for a while – fleshing out what I can remember and posting it! Tim made yorkshire puddings for tea, but misunderstood the secondhand recipe and made 4 times the quantity … Continue reading →

give or take, I wrote this post. Very little has changed. (Apart from us all getting older, moving house and having a baby. But you know what I mean. I hope.) It’s past time it did. Watch this space.

Took me ages to get going this morning, not assisted by big two kids coming and climbing into or onto bed with me and soa when they heard us moving. Conversation centred around their most recent mercenary motivation, which is … Continue reading →

Big has her first pair of jeans since she was a toddler. They are hand me downs from a friend of a friend, age 14 and sparkly and she loves them She looks gorgeous, and disturbingly grown up. Turns out … Continue reading →

Small has taken off on mathletics recently. He achieved 5300 points last week, although that only took 3 hours. and we worked through his fear of subtraction starting last Tues evening at swimming. He’s powered through 48 out of 66 … Continue reading →

I think many of my friends have been a bit lost for words following the sad events that have befallen Merry and her family, losing their baby boy days after he was born. I know I haven’t had much to … Continue reading →

Yesterday turned out to be a day full of ppl. I was up early in the morning and headed off foy my podiatrist appt with soa. As the physio said, my legs have a 1cm difference in length. She takes … Continue reading →

Got a tent out of the garage. Put it up It’s still sound, and I rather think we’ll be using our Vango Vista on our forthcoming camping weekend, while we continue to ponder the perfect tent. Our difficulty is that … Continue reading →

Big got called over to her swimming instructor on Tuesday evening and told she’s ready to move up – we haven’t had the phone call yet though, so maybe Adele is on holiday atm. If she does move up that … Continue reading →

specially for the crafty types. The Handmade marketplace book giveaway

but I haven’t let my guard down, and I’m certainly not taking a holiday I toasted our victory at 9.30 last night (mine’s a bud since you’re asking ) and I joined in the facebook celebration too. I watched on … Continue reading →

I said Dear Michael Please do not let the CSFBill through in the washup. From what I can tell there is no part of it that is not controversial, and the home education aspects in particular are beyond dire. The … Continue reading →

The election has been announced. Before we get into the electioneering proper the washup has to take place. The washup is one of the least democratic activities in the whole undemocratic process we call government.* The CSF Bill that we … Continue reading →

What a lovely ppl-ful weekend we’ve had Kirsty and James came to visit, and we’ve really enjoyed having them here. Kids have played, ds-ed, computered, watched tv and we have chatted. Yesterday Kirsty caught up with Charlotte and her two, … Continue reading →