life in the fast lane!

actually, i don’t drive for long in the fast lane! my days of speed disappeared with the children, haunted by visions of a babyseat rolling across the road and across the central reservation… i mentioned that to chris early on, and his days of speed stopped too.
anyway, having now determined this should say life predominantly in the middle lane with some slow when not covered in lorries, and some fast when overtaking… we can discuss how many miles i racked up!

have we got to the weekend on blog – nips off to check! oh yeah, not far anyway!! thurs i think chris did gym with the girls, and nots and tots in new venue! fri they tidied some of the house! lots of home ed done this week by both girls anyway, of both the interactive and book led kind.

fri my parents came – woohoo!! arrived home to find dad and SB battling it out on the wii, and then she started her grade 1 clarinet pieces with my mum. need to regain the initiative on clarinet and piano practice! lots of chatting too! the next morning they got a game in before leaving.

my sis not feeling so well, with an ear infection on top of other things, so some humming and hawing about whether she needed me to dash down etc. but eventually she chose sunday so we left for the science festival, though having missed the morning stuff.

we started in the maths zone and met the babs straight away!! and also gina… such a cool building! and we enjoyed the tables. SB did some enigma coding – and i think we could make our own pocket enigma codes! BB did a roman code wheel. we loved some of the games and puzzles and had our packed lunch. chatted to friends and went onto vet school. TBH i was a bit dissapointed with vet school, poss cos we didn’t get in all the bits? the xrays were good. the theatre too crowded. bb had a total melt over the food disinfectant bit, horses heart listen was cool though! we then went across to physics, but bb really had it, so a chocolate pick me up, and decided to take in a lecture byt hese guys

we all really enjoyed it, and the girls would like me to buy their book! we then went for the last bit of the day, at astronomy, and as walking heard a large kerfuffle behind us – R and D with their famous dad i think astronomy was the best bit of the day. BB and i made a spectrometer. SB and chris looked at all sorts, and got their pictures taken – so bb and i did too, as did the deependers, raindrops and famousfamily [i promise i won't use the name again!] before we were photons and then disappeared.

excitement on driving home, it was toad night! lots of signs to watch out for toads crossing, and we did see quite a few!

next day me and the girls drove down to unwell sis with pick me up nibble foods and craft kits for the kids to do! kids had a great time. sis not so good, but did persuade her to take meds, eat and drink something! took some of the pressure off b-i-l! kids made nice yellow moon easter boxes and played a lot, including dr who games and some wii sport [sb rather good at the archery] loooooong drive home! and there we are!!