still not doing tax return

getting into a habit – but planning to ring and harass about doing it online when their offices open. i can’t work out the self employed bit. i will obviously need to make up some ‘books’ will a word doc do?? luckily i can put total expenses in a box as earnt so little. had bloody tax returns!

anyway, today we had another lazy day, with the girls watching way too much tv in the morning. must kick myself going sooner tomorrow! SB did a good violin and piano practice too, and she made up a tune for me very merrily on the violin – which i encouraged. i think her perfectionist streak makes both violin and recorder difficult for her at times – ie when the notes don’t come out perfectly. the piano isn’t as stressful in this respect. as promised, i did a piano practice too. that fast hunting songs without words.

we did some quick maths – well allegedly because sb was somersaulting and back bridging longer than doing the maths, so it took a while!! BB was quite focused, as she is v happy she has nearly finished earlybird 1A. SB nearly finished 2B. we did lots of making train tracks, and when they all got shouty, we had enforced book reading on my lap so we looked through the farming through time book, as they both enjoy that, and sneakily did animals in french!! we then did some french – lucy chat a la plage before SB went off to read one of her own books, and BB and i read kicking king.

then we went outside to feed fish, enjoy the sunshine and inspect the veg. we were desolated to find thaat something had been nibbling too much at our biggest and best pumpkin – aargh, so picked all the others, as well as plentiful sweetcorn. we also picked and ate lots of grapes in the conservatory.

finally collapsing in front of the tv again [naughty] to watch first merlin, and the house on the prairie. just SB and its the baby dies one, so lots and lots of discussion there. SB then chilled with fantastic contraptions