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Having seen it on Merry’s blog

Posted on May 21, 2007 by | 1 comment

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

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fiddling with the frantic gardener blog

Posted on May 21, 2007 by | 1 comment

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

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blah some more

Posted on May 21, 2007 by | 6 comments

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

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Posted in art and crafts, Butterbean, General, literacy, music, numeracy, SB-PE, science, Stringbean's HE

Pea too!

Posted on May 20, 2007 by | 2 comments

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Originally uploaded by Scrumbledelicious.

but I think ros did it too.

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Relaxing day today

Posted on May 20, 2007 by | Leave a comment

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.

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Mars backtracks.

Posted on May 20, 2007 by | 4 comments

Masterfoods have said that Mars and the other chocolate bars will be going back to being veggie again.

Whether or not the calves who are still going to end up dead anyway as a by product of the milk production required think this is any better is not reported ;-)

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Feeling blah

Posted on May 19, 2007 by | 7 comments

hmm, i spent most of last night awake or having parent type nightmares, so not full of any joys today, and have found it hard to engage. this on its own annoys me, as i have so little time with the family that i should use it to the full.

Girls did painting and playdough, handstand practice. SB can do that climbing up doors thing that Pea did with the portico walls a couple of years back. SHe read a DK book called time travellers, we did the roman and viking bit, then went to the exploration of america book about the vikings, and the eric the red and leif the lucky sonlight book. [i read those]. girls did lots of self directed play whilst i mooched.
piled out into the garden. chris mowed the lawn, i planted out some runner beans, and the girls helped/hindered each of us in turn. I mostly snuggled bb as she didn’t like the unaccustomed noise of the lawnmower!

thats about it. i made up a bit at bathtime and bedtime though. Sb and I are having a break from britannia and reading roald dahl

forgot, Sb has been goign on a bit about improbabilty of tooth fairies. and she noticed that father christmas seemed to have got some things from yellow moon. So she begged me to tell her the truth about tooth fairies. i temporised, but now after several days, with a direct tell me the honest truth, i have. so much desolation.

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New Laptop Keyboard

Posted on May 18, 2007 by | 1 comment

it came under the category of essentials! Hoping for good weather this weekend. In end of week totally shattered mood – have already fallen asleep 2ce – once with SB, next time on sofa. should wander to correct bed!

Thanks to Jax for introducing us to numb3rs.

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Boughton House Open day

Posted on May 17, 2007 by | Leave a comment

We all went with the not very local group yesterday to the open day of Boughton House – looking at how an estate works. weather so so! Very interesting.

The girls particularly loved the dogs I think, gun dogs and hunting dogs, sheepdogs etc. They stroked ferrets, grassnakes and slowworms as well as all the dogs, and also some owl chicks and an owl [all supervised!] SB was v good at asking questions, whether it be about dog training, bees, logging or sheep shearing! There was a good not quite enactment of the problems with the enclosures act – something not commonly done, and sparked a few conversations. SB was most happy to get a freshly logged mushroom! Good chris comment – you know the dog chap sounded scottish [yessss] well, thats because he came from scotland [duh!] Apparently chris meant their scottish estate! I chatted to what was prob the duchess about the wonders of home-ed whilst BB played with her dog.
Anyway, pictures to follow on flikr.

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We got home and SB did her violin practice and read books. We britannia-ed at bedtime and read when the tiger came to tea.

Today BB has been to baby gym, they have shopped, and SB has been to ballet and done violin. not sure what else. We had lychees and asparagus for tea [separately] 2 treats! yummy. Game playing and more britannia and tut’s mummy at bedtime. we are with sir francis drake in the first, and about to enter the tomb in the second.

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Help Find Madeleine McCann

Posted on May 16, 2007 by | Leave a comment

Madeleine McCann went missing from her hotel room in Portugal on 3rd May. It is believed she may have been abducted in order to be trafficked for adoption or abuse. Please publicise this photo on your blog or flickr accounts in the hope that someone may recognise her. She has a distinctive right eye flash which may help identify her. The international number for Crimestoppers is +44 1883 731 336

Help Find Madeleine McCann

I’m not sure my blog has a wide readership at all. I’m not sure that this will help, but cynicism certainly wont. It’s simple to do so I urge you to do it too. Photo from flickr by searching for her name. First seen at Patch of Puddles Blog.

There is a new flickr group called missing children.

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