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The fire is lit

as it is sooooo cold! and i have got soft with a few days in my parents’ lovely warm house. we had a lovely time. lousy weather though! at least sat not so bad. we went to the chiltern sculpture park. having been to the yorkshire one, it is a bit low on sculpture scoring, but a really great walk in the wood. my sis and her 2 were there too. all the kids had a wonderful time running around, climbing trees, interacting with what sculptures we found. photos to follow
i had told Sb about how much fun i had cycling in the block and cul-de sacs where i grew up, so we took her bike, and she took what opportunities she could between torrential downpours to bike about. Also lots of reading, drwing and games. 2 violin practices. mum thought she held the violin well [phew] but was uncertain about the playing frere jaques in time. we will continue to practice! it will be slow!

BB and cousin E were having great fun together playing games . BB surprised us all by counting down the stairs to 14 – how did she learn that? Also trying out te alphat – poisson rouge! no idea of colours though.
t-bird – my mum has never heard of cutting down violin strings in all her years as a violin teacher.

back home, and beans squashed flat by winds, but sure they will pick up. chris’s parents have been past and done a bit of a tidy for us – thankyou v much to both sets of parents this weekend!

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from rainbowsandshukr

You Are From Saturn
You’re steady, organizes, and determined to achieve your dreams. You tend to play it conservative, going by the rules (at least the practical ones). You’ll likely reach the top. And when you do, you’ll be honorable and responsible. Focus on happiness. Don’t let your goals distract you from fun! Don’t be too set in your ways, and you’ll be more of a success than you ever dreamed of.
hmmmm sad indictment

Happy birthday fran, eve and rei

apart from dentistry, we went to a party in ipswich, and very enjoyable it was too. SB loved the slide, though it was a bit scary! She very carefully took BB round a couple of times too – what a sweetheart. lovely company and lovely day, thanks Em. will flickr.

girls screamed all the way home – sigh. neither asleep yet either

guessed it would be nadine

though actually she wasn’t worst in task.

bb still awake :roll:

dentists

how is it that you go in with your teeth feeling fine, they poke about abit and suddenly something hurts so you have to go back for a filling?

its still hurting!

Having seen it on Merry’s blog

i wondered how to get to my aunt’s house – rofl!! not quite sure why we go through france either??

fiddling with the frantic gardener blog

chris has been playing with the template. think this looks quite good.

blah some more

bur SB has had a good home ed day with Chris – maths, reading, playing, colouring. She made me a present too – bless.

We did violin together – how fast does Joe play frere jaques then? we are at dirge speed with various tuning issues!! At least she is getting used to the bigger violin size now. And it is recognisable!
BB and I had lots of cuddles. SB did lots of ball catching practice. I had promised SB a maths experiment yesterday to show why I knew she was cheating at uno, so we did some probability with coins. We grasped the half heads half tails chance = 50:50, and then threw 3 coins at a time. I got SB to work out how many different patterns there were. We considered how likely we were to choose certain coins out of the pile. At the end of this we looked at the idea of how many uno cards there were, and how many 2+ and 4+, and although we didn’t do the maths [ernest can!] it was quite clear that the chance of a hand of all 2+ and 4+ very unlikely! So there we go, a good start a probability.

The coins were grubby, so we have set up the salt and vinegar to clean them, as SB remembered how good this was at cleaning last time.

Girls now using stencils and colouring in.

I am being grumpy on ‘puter

Relaxing day today

we did a bit of reading – see below! lots of messing about, jigsaws etc.

Also a lot of playing about outside. I did some stuff on the veg plot. The girls ran about, bouncing, swinging, trapezing, pond dipping etc. helping me on occassion.

We came in and watched bic cat programme, tea, played games [SB cheated at UNO!!!!!] and the girls now safely tucked up.

I am still in blah mode though, so chris cooking me a curry.