A different wednesday – Historyetc Excursion :)

should back chat a bit really, and say the girls did a fab at home home ed day on mon, v productive and v happily. i also achieved goal of piano lesson for sb and story of the world for both. tues i was less productive, having had a 12 hour solid day, but still managed viola . they had done pretty well with home ed again, and had visited the post op grandad who is doing v well . when i came back from work i did have a fab welcome – a pancake and also the fab company of jax and family [and bottle of wine ] . i managed to relax for the first time in a couple of days, which was lovely and ended up with me finally getting some sleep. we chatted, played with the baby, the kids didn’t really get to sleep v early tho!!

so yes, back to today. we managed to get up and out, i had storming migraine – prob due to first night sleep after v stressed – but we did manage to get out on time, find a parking space [easier for me in the yaris than jax] and meet up with everyone before moving onto the museum of classical archaeology for an arranged visit. I was really fantastic, the facilitator was excellent and gripped all the childrens attention and enthusiasm. i thought she mixed the factual elements and myths and legends really well, as well as encouraging everyone to look at the statues. the kids quickly got over all the nude men [tho being asked to check out the musculature of some of the buttocks a bit weird!!] After the session the children all had a go at drawing one or more of the statues [rather well] before we went to have lunch in a covered area nearby. one of the porters saw us [i presume that was who it was anyway ] and allowed us to eat in a small lecture hall. BB was particularly happy with this, and has decided to go to university on the basis of that

we then went to a university wind orchestra concert aimed for schools, which was also excellent, and both of my children loved it, and bb [who i had had a few concerns about! ] was great in the audience, enthralled by the music, and then discussing v nicely what she had liked about each thing. she did like the faces at the back of the worksheet [and the worksheet, but i would have prob redesigned that a bit! it was slightly shorter than i thought too, so should have thought of something else to do in town. we def would recommend, and i was v impressed by the conductor.

SO we had ppl come back to ours for a cup of tea and chat, and the kids rampaged v happily. will add pics. SB at brownies then judo, and bb snuggling me but about to go to bed, as early start tomorrow . see some of you in london!