you may have noticed, but my blog died! well,it lost connection with its database. before tht the server was part of some crash or other, so the blog was deactivated. sigh! so, i don’t quite know where the blog is, and plan to ‘go back in time’ with posts until i hopefully meet myself coming the other way [and DH finds whats wrong with the database]
This week has been a busy week for BB, she has worked quite hard at reading and also better at getting the 20 things on the ticksheet. These things are of variable length, and none long. it is just to try and develop structure we can build on. She likes the new organisation of ‘fact books’ and has been happily reading them.
Evening activities have restarted as well, so back at swimming and cubs. Judo had a miss as this weds she tried out for swimming club and has been put in the pre-racing group. v happy about that 
tho that means we now do something on a fri 
. This week some of the local home ed group stuff was going as well – the regular multisports on the thursday, but also a new thing – orienteering – on friday. She loved it and was happy with her group of friends, even though they mostly walked and ambled rather than being made keen to finish first [maybe DH has some pictures?]
on the weds front we had Weds4Ed, a perhaps not so snappy title! For me this was slightly messed up by a requirement to attend a very urgent work meeting in the morning, so jiggering around, gave DH to young engineers stuff to sort out. kfish also had a day out to take l to Ypres [see their blog] as far too good an opportunity to miss . E and B then got the day going, with chess, as quite a number of the kids are interested to quite serious about it, and animation. When I got back, the creating the storyline was going full swing v happily . Pasta for lunch and then some balloon rockets with young engineers. worked initially much better than expected, zooming along the string! the dual balloons not so good, but interesting how they twirled around [as not equal sized] and then the booster rocket ended up being predom adults only, keen to make it work! E and I took the interested [2] to do some general musicianship, starting easy and working up which was fun, and E and I then played some piano duets together – more fun – whilst the kids had some playing time, taking turns doing their credits animations. 4pm is the games hour, so some joined up to minecraft together and e and i played board games. think this will work well, as BB loves minecrafting with small and R , many of the other kids like boardgames
SO in all, a good week. BB still misses SB a lot [as do we] , but is shaking into new routine, and we are trying to keep busy busy.