i really need DH to blog. I have no idea what happened for lots of last week, but i am sure that they were out fairly lots?? the usual home ed type stuff, some concentrated working for SB grade 3 music theory, general bits and pieces of going out and about, new glasses etc.
They spent a day with the local HE group fossiling and then pond dipping, which was great fun.ppl from le ciel rouge and patch of puddles were there too. Loads and Loads of fossils were found, mostly ammonites and belemnites. We had remembered to take along the geolog hammers and chisel, and BB in particular was in her element. I haven’t been along to a home ed thing for so long that i definitely had a bit of eek outsider feel! luckilly group v friendly, and i did know quite a few other people too.
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took a ginormous packed lunch out that got ravenously eaten. in pond dipping came back with quite a few fish and beetles, so satisfaction all round. SB also did some bird watching from the hide
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We returned in time to send BB out to judo, which she v much enjoyed, and is happy to go again. Sensei wasn’t enthusiastic about having periodic extra children tho, which is a shame. SB had judo afterwards. I do like both girls doing a martial art as think at various times it might have been useful to me to have learnt.
thursday was a tidying and gym day, and some home ed thrown in for good measure 
and then friday arts award. Made more exciting by the fact there was a chemical spill near where we live, so the girls couldn’t return until all over. it turned out not to be that dramatic… They did some fab art, and i enjoyed getting to see it on my return from work. My cousin’s partner sadly passed away from her brain cancer.
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and then we hopping in the car and drove down to sussex, but i think that might be another blog post