well, i got up gloriously early and was up and at’em. thing is, i am not sure i can remember much of yesterday!
ermm, i know SB did some piano practice! oh, and i made some ‘stone age’ tabards out of fake fur material for the girls – yay, the sewing machine worked!! umm. oh yes, we sowed lots of seeds – sweetcorn native american [for its blue and yellow colouring] squash festival, pumpkin mars and a golden courgette. also climbing bean cobra and runner beans lady di and sunset. pea misty. so that was quite a lot of things!! we read some french, as haven’t done much there for ages Les Amis De Berthe
and built on that with a bit of conversation and description. also looked at some stone age books Prehistoric Peoples (Exploring History)
and i think just generally played in the sun. OOOH I remember!! we went easter egg hunting at ‘the big house’ [which is v lovely!] BB cycled there and back as she is ace now at cycling. she can also get herself going now. she was enjoying skidding on the gravel there, and did come off, unfortunately. the other thing we did was bribe the girls 1p for every dandelion flower they picked. this is chris’s idea to cut down on the seeds floating about. i think 10p per plant with some root might have been a better bet. this has cost us about a fiver so far!! SB did some VR [has finished the NVR book]
anyway, so to today. another fabulously warm day!! we started with porridge – always a good start, and then went out to play, filling up the bird seed feeders, and immediately getting a rush of birds. then BB wanted to paint her dinosaur volcano – the dinodorium that she hasn’t done for ages, so excavated that, and SB did some painting by numbers. Striking the HE iron as it has been quite cool for a while :blush: i read some The Story Of the World – the Middle Ages V 2 
. this was about marco polo, and both SB and BB were quite enthusiastic about it, so i read around with marco polo and The Picture History of Great Explorers
. both v happy. we did a bit more french with Space Postman/Le Facteur Spatial (I Can Read French)
, and then put up the play tent, and chris got out his spacepacker, so a fair bit of tenting and general play went on. i finished my book Postmortem (Dr Kay Scarpetta)
. actually will recommend this one The Other Queen
, that i read whilst away, and also this one Henry: Virtuous Prince
, but i left this one The Wise Woman
in the travelodge as disliked intensly – and gave me nightmares and an unsettled feeling which is no good if there is no husband to cuddle!! [i think the amazon reviewers are in agreement!]
Anyway, it being a clear evening, we finished off the evening looking at the stars – and in particular saturn through the telescope. BB was decidedly underwhelmed by the size of it!! that is 4 year olds for you!! prior to that BB and i did jigsaws whilst SB read Your Head (See Inside)
, and See Inside: The World of Dinosaurs (Usborne Flap Books)
[obviously one of BB's books!!]
HE has been a bit sparse here too, think these things do go in waves though don’t they? We always seem to do more when we can be outdoors and, lets face it, there’s been precious little chance of that recently!
I think it does go in waves, or binges, and I think that’s one of the reasons it works so well. When ppl are ready to focus and really get to grips with something you can spend that time, and at other times you can know that it’ll come around again.
we’ve slumped for over a month – picking up again now.