we have had a busy and productive day here chez haricot. i had today off work – yippee!! and having worked the weekend, decided to use it well – ie stay at home. really i should have gone into town and done some fairly urgent banking stuff, but don’t know where the forms are 
SO we thought we would start with a bit of normals. SB keen to show me she had moved onto the next piano piece [i am trying to play this v cool - cf violin!] and she has played it v nicely. BB was a tad jealous, so brought me her maffs to do – so we did that, and SB went onto Junior English Book 1
both girls wanted to do some science, but ‘on their own’ and bb chose to investigate magnets and sb an eino burglar alarm that she has done before. after this they fancied craft. BB chose air drying clay and initially made more fossils. SB looked at a Middle Ages Activity Book (Crafty History)
and chose to play 3 mens merrels. we decided it was a fun game, so she has made a board and counters out of air drying clay too. then they have both spent ages sticking jewels into air drying clay as middle ages treasures!!
Now BB is watching magic school bus and SB is at ballet. plan to make some scones when chris comes back with cheese. actually chris been gone a while – might have forgotten and gone into hayloft. hayloft currently has a dead animal aroma [something of a concern] so he is investigating!
edited to complete! we made cheese scones – yummy – as planning to visit science museum wed unless things go pear shaped! BB did a short nice recorder practice and then a v long hideous one, so banned to the stairs!! SB grumpilly did 5 mins recorder practice, and then decided to make up music for me to copy, and then made up some more etc etc so did about 40 mins in the end!! i love the fact she is so unthinkingly confident about making it up, and also often modal rather than modern tonal. much reading – she is working through the roald dahl books she happily got for her birthday.
BB was particularly spectacularly ‘not tired’ at tea tonight and after screaming and shrieking in the pantry for about 10 minutes while we all pretended she didn’t exist, came back and let me feed her before falling asleep at the table – so not tired! tho she woke up and pretended she had been pretending and was again not tired, so we got the whole rigmarole 2ce!
circus is quite a nasty one to try and look up in an ordinary dictionary – we used the Ace Spelling Dictionary at school, which was very useful – we tried to buy one for Big recently, but they are about to put out a new edition so we thought we’d wait for that.
And I think you may put ppl off sleeping in the hayloft you know
am thinking about the galore park english book, might hold off and look at in real life in a few weeks
Was going to say we’d sleep in the hayloft. Need to scout out the place for when we surreptitiously move in. Not so sure now…
Ah, was wondering about bagging hayloft for C and me – on the basis that it might be more cat-free than the house? (C having only just realised (i.e. when I told him) that you have cats – assume they are still there?!)
ah, i do have cats still. will hoover everything into oblivion. the dressing room [if not already taken] is kinda cat free. they never go in the dining room at all.
Hayloft is a possibility (even tho there is an odd smell at the mo), but it is used for storing lots of stuff, which does tend to spread around, so give me enough time to organise it back into a pile. It’s been converted into a room, has carpet lights, and even a handbasin (cold water), but it’s pretty cold in there
It’s pretty bloody cold in our loft too, but C and I have toughed it out all winter – we could bring our huge pile of covers and a camping heater with us! (Perhaps we should sneak the dog up there too for extra warmth – had promised him he could snuggle up with Nic
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(Nic, before you start hyperventilating, he’s not coming
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i thought it had an electric heater hidden behind the boxes chris?
modal vs tonal is really common I think. The music classes we go to are kodaly/colourstring based and the music they start with is modal and folksong ish. The first book for the class is pentatonic which most kids seem to fairly naturally be able to sing, and the third book is minor, but natural minor (as opposed to melodic/harmonic, hmm which mode is that aolian? I forget) Confused me because the scale starts on La.
OMG hadn’t even considered he might. Glad I didn’t read inbetween your two comments otherwise I’d have been frantically typing my excuses!
Yeah, I’d gone away and thought I should come back and add the second! Helen knows he’s not coming (he has a weekend away with his his dogsitters – if he could anticipate things, he would be bouncing with excitement), but realised it might not be quite so obvious to anyone else
I didn’t think there was a heater in there, but can’t remember really. But could put a fan heater in there. Though I think it would be more of the bit nippy quick into bed rather than arrgh it’s freezing type temp