i was woken up [as having a lie in] by a friends dad – the gaffer – asking me a musical question for a newspaper!! do you know, it still seemed slightly embarrassing to be dishevelled in bed talking to a friend’s dad, even though he couldn’t see down the phone! [i am assuming even the gaffer doesn't have these skills!] i am hoping i gave him the right answer anyway!
so having then got up :blush: i went downstairs to play with girls, the plan was to home ed in the morning [as we were too snow chicken to go to london for the day] and then ‘do something’ in the afternoon. the girls have both got into the swing of normalling. BB is more or less choosing what she counts as home ed. today putting stickers in a sticker book, but also some piano practice [remembering where middle c is it has been that long!] some more getty and dubay – she is enjoying letter tracing, and then we snuggled together to look at the first few pages of a street through time.
SB also been going well, and today she did clarinet prac, galore park science [light], galore park english [write a story about a treasure island ]- which after a few false valiant starts we agreed she could dictate. she also did ‘smelly spellings’ for 7-8′s.
After lunch both girls decided to go outside to play with the ice and snow – brr as far as i am concerned – for ages!! tho we haven’t had so much in the way of snow. when they came in we sat and did some ds-ing [prof layton and i got stuck for ages on the valentine choc bar!] some general cuddling/tickling and messing about, and then SB went off to brownies. Chris and BB did some diy with ikea bookcases, and then we played on the wii – waveboarding. it appears to be my sport 
BB isn’t so sure about the wii at the moment, so feeling that the present isn’t so fab for her, but am hoping she grad gets to it!! [otherwise it won't be so much fun] i also found that i am far better at mariokart using the wheel [tho the bar is pretty low!!]
when SB returned, a bit of a tidy, and BB noticed her violin, and set to playing it [anything rather than tidy] and so SB followed suit!!! she got out the violin [now somewhat small] and the tune a day, and started having a go again. i kept my mouth most firmly shut, and carried on tidying, only stopping to agree that the V were upbows, and that like jazz clarinet, a violin is best held outwards for sound. she wants it added to her choices on her ticksheet. blow me down with a feather. Am going to continue not particularly noticing it unless asked, and carry on more nagging for recorder and piano [clarinet requires no reminder]
more dsing altogether, bedtime stories and that is the happy day. [i am not being sarcastic, it was just a happy flowing day at home]
I was recently in the bath when the phone rang – ’twas a friend’s husband and I very determinedly did not accept the call!
giggle, i think bath worse, would be bound to splash at some point! I rather liked the fact he apparently asked chris for HHaricot!
I think I said Haricot to him during our conversation, but that was definitely in the context of Facebook! Sorry he woke you up though
nah, i needed to be getting up. just having some insomnia issues and massively sleep short!