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Category Archives: Puters!
Sunday sun.
Bil was very organised this morning and struck the tent before the preteens were awake. Well, the second bedroom and the outer anyway. When they woke up and stumbled out he asked them if anything was missing. “Um, the washing … Continue reading
5 children, 2 puters, 1 website.
Not a particularly good combination for a harmonious morning! Despite their late night, all children were up reasonably early, although the preteens were the last, unsurprisingly. They mainly managed to play on moshi monsters – there was an attempt to … Continue reading
Questseekers and cousins.
Friday morning, we managed to locate all library books, and persuade Small that he needed to take some of them back. He was not very happy about this. He hasn’t read quite a few of them – he tends to … Continue reading
Maths, Time travelling and scanning
Can’t quite remember how I got into the battle with Big Wednesday morning over her maths, but we did. From being thrilled with the new books, she’s now back into full resistant maths is boring mode. But I put my … Continue reading
cause and effect or bribery and punishment?
First day of the new system, it appears that the children had a rather different idea to how it was going to work than I did. Our system doesn’t involve boxes per child prestacked with work – I’m nowhere near … Continue reading
Something’s got to change.
Another day of petty squabbling and far too much screen time, with reluctance to go outside (it did rain somewhat, which didn’t help) which culminated in tears at bedtime when Small wanted to play as they barely had all day, … Continue reading
Days not to dwell on
Monday was one of those days. By about 10 o’clock I was offering Big out on brightkite – she was in a foul mood for no apparent reason, and any interchange with her resulted in screaming and wailing or stropping … Continue reading
two hours on my own
although why I spent them in Sainsburys I can’t imagine! That was the afternoon though. The morning passed in the standard haze of ‘putering and refereeing small squabbles about who had overrun their turn and so on. Won a knitting … Continue reading
A little art appreciation in the morning.
It was the last day of the local art group’s art exhibition yesterday, so I decided that we were going to make it down there, and organised a family walk out. Beautiful weather – very sunny and hot again. Kids … Continue reading
and so to Friday.
Had invited Big’s friend C round for a playdate, but didn’t tell the children til this morning as I couldn’t stand the steadily mounting excitement pitch that I would have had, nor the disappointment if she didn’t turn up. Was … Continue reading
Maths in the morning, maths in the evening
a little bit of time-travelling in between A good way to spend a Thursday. Kids started the day with putering, but soon drifted towards their maths books, aided by Tim and me taking them out to the garage to find … Continue reading
Deliveries, friends and a trip to the beach.
Got up this morning to find two deliveries in the porch – maths books from Maths no problem and our new veg box from Abel and Cole. The veg box scared me slightly, so I left it in the kitchen … Continue reading
hovercraft, puters and stuff
Didn’t have a good night’s sleep last night, so was reluctant to start the day today. Am told by Tim that I missed Small strumming his guitar this morning, but there you go. Once I was down and breakfasted, the … Continue reading
Slightly soggy Saturday with science and music.
Occasionally, it rains here. Sometimes it rains quite a lot. Saturday was a rainy day – every now and then it dropped a lot of water, and then there were dry patches. Small is taking off with his Science School … Continue reading
Autonomy and swine flu
Not directly connected For the rest of the week, Small amused himself on the computer mainly. Occasionally this was very irritating, depending on what website he chose to focus on, but most of the time, I could see pretty direct … Continue reading
Balloons, science and yet more putering.
Get the feeling that when Big gets back Small is going to go into serious computer withdrawal. Left to his own devices I think he would just educate himself entirely autonomously by exploring the internet until he understood it all. … Continue reading
Swimming and MMORPG
Small spent most of Tuesday expanding his understanding of RPGs. Every now and then he needed to regroup and spent some time back with CBeebies, mainly on tikkabilla He got lots out of fusion fall, and then eventually, I dragged … Continue reading
Just one child
On Monday, Tim took Big up to Yorkshire to spend some time with L. Obviously first of all we had to have traumas as she thought she’d packed the day before, but she’d forgotten things like cuddlies, and coats and … Continue reading
Finishing off tidying
Thurs appears to have become a bit of a blur to me, I really should blog immediately after the day or even in the evening. Hohum. I know there was more finishing off of tidying – the room is almost … Continue reading
Mathematical traumas
over the weekend I printed out placement tests from Maths no problem for both offspring. Small is acquiring maths concepts in the same way he acquires all knowledge (ie I have no idea, just suddenly he knows something) but Big … Continue reading


