when you leave your laptop switched off
It’s still switched off. I’m borrowing Tim’s machine, while he’s out shopping and the grots are bathing. I’ve really enjoyed the freedom, haven’t felt that the day got away from me at all. Well, apart from the first hour or so I spent sleeping [...]
Our children are morning ppl. Tim and I are night owls. This has often resulted in the children getting up and breakfasting and watching tv on their own and us staggering down an hour or two later, which then sets the pattern for a bad day.
Wanting to break the pattern, we’ve decided that [...]
You may recall a few weeks ago that I was pondering making a few things. So far I’ve made a hat, out of really rather gorgeous wool, as I said I’d started a little while back. Today Big and I branched out into the wired bead crochet. Well, OK, the first one [...]
handy at least!
It’s not quite 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning. The tv is playing to itself (must replace it with music). Big is sitting at the newly cleared art table doing more parchment embossing and decorating. Small is doing a paint by numbers at the dining room table. Apparently all [...]
It’s been a busy morning, with Small playing happily on cbeebies with Mr Tumble, having previously done some fabric land game he found. He came charging in with instructions that he’d printed out about paper weaving, so I got him the bits he needed and he did a tiny bit of that, before declaring [...]
He’s been sleeping on the compost bin for a while, but tonight he appears to have decided to move in. If he keeps the grotty cats from next door out, it’s a deal
And in other news, well, I already blogged the SALT phone call. Pulled up Something Special on the desktop [...]
out of Merry’s book, been targetting my efforts this morning!
Gotta love those red nose readers - Big is sitting on the floor right now reading one, and Small is on the couch looking at another. They are excellent!
OK, quick round up of the day so far. Despite feeling like death only slightly warmed [...]
must be careful to keep it education, and not indoctrination! Well, I ask you. Big chose a book from the sale box at the library a little while ago, an ancient tome on Reproduction and Growing Up. Today she wanted to read some of it, so we sat together and I read [...]
And can’t help wondering if it’s because I encouraged a workbook session or two
We’re back to the Exeter maths. There’s been reading as well, sitting gazing blankly at class tv (she watched two episodes, back to back, of a spelling show!) A little more string art, this is obviously going to take [...]
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Thanks to Dora, Big spent yesterday memorising her alphabet. Or at least attempting to ;). I didn’t realise Dora was the inspiration to begin with - didn’t recognise the song, I’m afraid. And I don’t know it, so my help was limited to writing out the alphabet, lower and upper case, for [...]
It was fun
So that was the afternoon - lots of children, adults, newspapers and tape. Worked well I thought, think ppl enjoyed it. And there was playdough for children while adults rolled up paper tubes, so everyone had a chance to get messy.
Evening - went back to Barbara’s where the [...]
Took me and Big a couple of hours yesterday - some experimentation about how best to make the joints and so on, and a fair bit of time with me cutting up bits of straw, but we both had a great time.
And I think I’m in love - how cool is this house? [...]
I’ve been toying with the idea of building a geodesic dome since someone posted instructions to a list (mp?) a while back. Felt like an outdoor activity though, but I was wondering about doing it at our puddlers group sometime, where at least we’ve got a big hall.
Big is sitting watching Extreme Archaeology, and [...]