and a merit for grade 1 recorder goes to…

SB! woohoo SB, well done love. She is really pleased as she wanted a ‘merit or extinction’ [glad we got a merit!] and practiced really hard before the exam. She has now started practicing some grade 1 clarinet pieces to take to gina. bit more worried wrt scales, as i can’t find anything for her on the clarinet, and will say the wrong named note if i don’t concentrate, as it is a transposing instrument.

So today, well chris has worked hard, and the room of doom not so doomy! ‘parently bb and sb went in and said ”ooh a table, we can use that for craft” which was the plan, about 5 years ago! SB did some painting of her craft kit, which we bought a while back at centreparcs in the sale, rather than our usual craft emporium. I think the usual emporium prob cheaper than a holiday to centreparcs plus a sale purchase, so would recommend it!

BB did some painting by numbers, and they both then made an easter basket. i got given the easter basket of BB later filled with spring flowers from the garden so v happy! they moved on to a mixture of normals type things including some of the nallenart l’art de lire for SB and bonjour mes amis 1 vid for BB [she likes the cat and singing frere jaques!]

then sowing a variety of seeds – i should have reminded chris that those potatoes should be planted from the potato council! ph, and chris has hacked back the vine in the conservatory ready for the rebuild. we are v much hoping it stays alive! a fair bit of playing outside, looking at spring flowers and ladybirds.

SB did some clarinet and piano prac with me before off to swimming. BB didn’t want to go, but as i had fallen down our stairs rather than walking them, and really pulled my knee, i didn’t want to go with them. massive kerfuffle, and she didn’t swim in the end.

Home and delish veg casserole and dumplings watching monsters we met part 2 – we are enjoying these, tho i prefered the first one with the clovis