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 [...]
we have shoes, well actually boots, for Big. I’ve lost count of how many shoe shops we’ve been in and didn’t even try to count how many pairs of shoes we’ve tried on - it’s taken 3 weekends to sort this out! And then, icing on the cake, machine refused my credit card! [...]
Blogging with Opera Mini, a mobile phone and T-Mobile web and walk. A :rant: about o2 call centre coming soon…
courtesy of 1000 Playthinks
Found this the other night when I was tidying, and decided I’d inflict it on Big. Expected her to wail and moan and wriggle, instead she practically ripped it out of my hand and we started working through the puzzles difficulty level 1. We got to one about [...]
Tonight Big read Night You Were Born (Orchard Picturebooks) to me. We got it at the library earlier this week, when they were selling off lots of books, 6 for £1. And as you know, we’ve a shortage of books here
Anyway, tonight we talked about punctuation marks, I said things like [...]
Today we went to Roche Abbey
We played hide and seek
Admired the spots on a ladybird
Threw Pooh sticks
And waited for them to reappear
… and Small has learnt to play with the stream…
Today we went to Bolsover Castle. It is only two villages away, so of course, we haven’t been there in the six years since we moved here. Signed up for family membership to English Heritage while we were there (15 months for the price of 12).
High point for Big was the tree, which is a [...]
I have only ever been on the North Norfolk Railway and to a couple of museums including a trip long ago to the National Rail Museum in York so our trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was pretty exciting for me as well as the smalls.
The railway extends south-west from Keighley in [...]
It has taken me a while to get round to blogging this. Last week I took the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off to avoid the Great Yorkshire Show traffic jams in Harrogate, which would have added several hours to my travelling time to work (which is already too long).
I had planned to take the children [...]
Apart from dictating her experiment today, Big has done lots of work on maths. Completely unprompted and with only a little guidance at that - she found a box of post office toys (tried to find a link, but elc appear to have discontinued it so as to be able to fit in more [...]
Purpose
We wanted to do an experiment to see how the sun heats different coloured things up differently.
Hyphothesis
We expected the black jar to be the warmest.
Materials.
We had three clear glass jars. A sheet of black card, and a sheet of foil.
Method.
We put 1 pint of water in each jar. We measured the temperature of the [...]
to Big reading her own bedtime story (Kitty Helps Out (Kitty & Cat Lift the Flap S.)) out loud to Tim
The hands off approach is finally paying dividends. I know she’s cracked it by herself, she knows she’s cracked it by herself, and she is getting more and more adventurous on what [...]
where would I be?
‘cos I can’t find it. I don’t need it to renew my insurance, regular readers will know that I did that three weeks ago. But I need the renewal sheet as it has evidence of my no claims bonus on it, and my new company needs that evidence. And [...]
This afternoon I got the afternoon I’d been looking forward to having yesterday, iyswim I dragged myself out of bed and mediated between screaming children (Big had decided to get dressed, which meant Small wanted to get dressed, but Big wasn’t doing it right (he doesn’t like having his ears touched much)) then [...]
Small wanted a different cd on the puter
Big worked her way through huge amounts of my scrap fabric - they work it as capes, used it as blankets, she cut and sewed, it was great. Forgot to mention that she drew a card for Small yesterday, wrote in it and everything. Bizarrely she is now doing his initial backwards, but most other [...]
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 [...]
Now, I know it’s Sunday. I know it’s a day of rest for many. I know that my children don’t know that, and one of the things they’ve never got around to learning is that education is supposed to happen 9 -3.30, Mon-Fri, within the walls of a school. I’m quite pleased [...]
Has been rather up and down. She seems somewhat emotional and confrontational atm, and I’ve been somewhat preoccupied with some work I needed to finish. It’s not a good combination
Nevertheless, we’ve had some good times today. I particularly enjoyed setting her up on the laptop to work on some more [...]