HE christmas parties and snow!

thurs i think chris and the girls tots and notted, and did some rehearsal for the christmas party nativity and some recorders, and then i think they had multisport – that pretty much took care of the day. I had a training day in Bradford, and so when i awoke to snow deep and crisp and even, i was slightly concerned that the rail links would let me down. they didn’t, had a fab training session and a safe return. the car park certainly felt like siberia though, with the wind containing blades and snow coming horizantal at me. certainly made for a very interesting drive home!! [ok, so i was a little bit scared and went v slowly, but i did discover a special effect! if you drive slowly through snow blowing horizantally directly at you and put full beam on it kinda looks like space wormhole special effects] I obviously didn’t drive like that all the way home, else i might not have made it!!

Friday dawned with a fair wallop of snow on the ground, and the girls rushed out to play in it. bless them, they took their sleds, though our garden is as flat as flat can be. never tried a spirit level on it, but still guessing flat!! we let them play for a bit before piling in the car for the home ed group christmas party. we had great fun. It is a shame so many ppl were stopped by snow, but said hello to all and sundry. unfortunately i was migrained to the hilt – prob due to the v long day previously with only an occassional snack to keep going rather than proper meals. But lovely ppl brought me cups of tea, and i snuggled BB whilst watching the fab nativity play, and then the cabaret. lots of great music and some poetry too. I do enjoy watching kids enjoying showing their skills in such a non-pressured and appreciative audience way! Sb played a carol on the clarinet – she is v happy with her clarinetting, and it shows in her keenness to get it out. she also had a go at sightreading some carols from her 0-1 upgrade christmas special music – done v nicely. yummy food, and children playing outside all quite merrily. we finished with dave on the hurdy gurdy [quite jealous really] and then a rousing carol singing.

Katy suggested we go back to hers, with the temptation of free skating at a local park! so we went. it was freezing cold so we all wrapped up v warm. it was plastic not ice, but the children all loved rampaging around on the ice, and BB in particular was suitably fearless, showing the others how to twirl, run etc… Bob and I kept each other company, and tasted the hot chocolate. Back to katy’s for chippery tea, good company and conversation. BB let the tone down considerably by repeating what SB had read her on a very ‘blue’ card that must have been within reach at the post office. :blush: my head seemed to be finally better [typical!] so home and bed for us all, more or less!!