Tag: Jonny had two apples

  • 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 were slightly displeased about being dragged away from the ‘puter but not too grotty about…

  • 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 getting slightly panicked as it passed the appointed time, but she did show, maybe 10…

  • 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 the scales so that Small could do all the weighing experiments that he couldn’t…

  • 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 while I hid behind a netbook, but the maths books went down really well with…

  • swimming, putering and HE courtesy of Tesco.

    Swimming first thing this morning, which necessitated waking up Small and dragging him out of bed. Shouldn’t have bothered, as according to the leisure centre he doesn’t exist – there was no letter for him for his next block of lessons. Eventually got to the bottom of it with A the swimming lesson coordinator. Well,…

  • 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 benefits, and he explored a lot of different things, including some excellent Lazy town…

  • 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. Anyway, we started out the morning by going to the doctors for Small’s follow up…

  • 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 purses (which she then couldn’t find) and so on, so there was a bit of…

  • and so to the weekend

    Saturday morning we re-tidied the children’s room, this time to the point that sufficient floor was found to hoover. Quite an achievement, although there was still the strip in between the beds covered in scraps of paper. Tim decided to take the kids out to Framlingham Castle, and I decided to stay at home to…

  • Friday out at friends

    On Friday we went over to see Em. The kids took stuff to play magic school, including spare wands for E and R, and I took a bag of yarn and various patterns so I could start something else. In the end, they didn’t play magic school, but it was a game filled afternoon as…