very tired!

well, i guess it’s poetic justice that I worked this weekend following kessingland, and its been the busiest weekend I’ve worked for ages. In all daytime and called all night. So today I decided to leave slightly early from work and have a short nap. 30 mins later, SB woke me up as they were back home.

it was sports session this morning – must ask Chris whether SB tried the older group? She loves the sports sessions, and BB also likes the careering around she gets to do with Daddy. After it, they went back to the deep end’s new abode. Chris texted this to me, but i must have been at a superlatively busy moment and missed it! Anyway, they had a lovely time, BB was frightened by a cat – we have 2!

both girls did some colouring with chalks on black card to start with – very lovely. SB did do some firework pictures – nothing like being topical! bit of a tussle over BB purposefully squiggling over SB’s picture.
We inspected the garden – i didn’t get to see it at the weekend. french and runner beans shooting up, and some flowers on the runner beans. the broad beans had loads to harvest – so we did that, as did the mangetout. the girls ate them in thier playhouse. still more strawberries and also our weird not quite plum tree – as yet unidentified, but prob if i could be bothered would be! has some ripe fruit that the girls ate. Sweetcorn looking most unhappy – far to wet and miserable for them. things in the greenhouse on the whole happy – toms romping away and some ripening fruits. BB could only be persuaded that the grapes weren’t ripe by eating one.
SB happily did some singapore maths – adding hundred tens and units, whilst BB and I podded broad beans for tea and read books. BB fell asleep on my lap eating dinner – so whisked up to bed, and we’re hoping she will stay asleep.

Sb and I read our birds book from the DK animal series – part of our book people order. She also read the penguin lifecycle book as we read the inroduction and she chose penguins. We followed this up with a bit of david attenborough and his flying with birds [or whatever!] first episode.

Thinking home-eddy thoughts, in part brought on by hearing a girl shout at her mother IN FRENCH!! what a skill. must start thinking more seriously about approaching modern languages and poss latin. [whether i do remains to be seen. hoping that the possible local jolie ronde group may get set up in the location of the possible leader's home as v conveniently located!!]

DfES guidance for Home education

go on, filll in the feedback. doesn;t take long. either do it yourself, ot use the freedom for children to grow’s breakdown

Thank you for responding to Consultation on Home Education Guidelines.

If you have requested an acknowledgement we will send one to you as soon as your response has been processed.

Your response identifier is xx.

Department for Education and Skills
Consultation Unit
Area 1A Castle View House
East Lane
Runcorn
Cheshire WA7 2GJ
Tel:??? 01928 794888
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Email: consultation.unit@dfes.gsi.gov.uk

If my number [xx!] is the number of respose they have had, it isn’t many!!

another Kessies snippet or 3

We have Chloe’s brush btw. Chloe, SB and M were playing hairdressers in our tent. SB and C discussed different parental hair brushing techniques, but we are apparently both OK at it [rofl!] M thought her parent could do with some lessons [rofl rofl rofl]

this was relayed to me this morning as I put SB’s hair in a bun, so veracity cannot be authenticated.

And I have unfolded monster’s picture of a dalek he drew for me so that I can put it in my office. Thankyou.

BB and Josie were being very friendly, and hopefully will be a good pairing in the future. Joanna got the only triplet shot though – so waiting for that on flickr!

Actually SB did play with a wide range of people, which is lovely to see considering I was always so entirely hopeless. Hero worship of Violet continues, with a secondary place going to Abbie. SO she was delighted to stay up late at the fire with Violet as well as Chloe and M. Her previous camp strong friends also remain strong friends, and she was sad that Barbara’s oldest wasn’t there.

Kessie blog

Kessingland, well, what can I say! It was really wet, we had to move the tent due to flooding, but there were friends there, and fun to be grasped!

Highlights

Children still having fun. SB played with loads of different friends over the week, few spats, lots of laughter. She did stay up way too late a couple of times!

Sparky?s was a great hit for SB this year, she hadn?t been much before, and she loved it.

Both girls enjoyed swimming ? we went a lot to warm up!

BB?s excitement on seeing a real lion!

BB?s excitement on running, jumping and falling into muddy puddles!

The valiant craft sessions that still went ahead ? we have new tie dye, bits of air dried clay, an aquabeads thing to grab from merry and some gods eyes.

SB going off with friends and their parents happily to the park and to the beach [there was a lot of swapping children!]

Friends ? for chocolate, compassion, cups of tea and chitchat ? weather permitting! Thankyou lots and lots all of you, as particularly the first few days I was lost in a work world of misery.

Meeting New Home edders

Negatives

Well, the biggest was the boggy muddy pondy field.

Rain ? though it actually was only bad a couple of days, its effect on the field was awful!

Not getting to sit out as much to chat, while keeping a loose eye on children

Not getting to know people on the other side of the boggy quagmire!

The swimming pool changing rooms [perhaps that should be higher up on the list?]

Other things

I got 2 sparky?s certificates ? one was for my dancing skills ? rofl!

My mitts and camping socks from t-bird Anni were truly fab

The new airbed also far better than the old!

Doug makes a good fire

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When we flickr, I will link here. And I reserve the right to add to this things I think of!

It’s just a gadget….

The Apple iPhone has gone on sale in the US.

Some people queued for 3 1/2 days.

Some people’s brains seem to have become addled by the whole experience:

“Nothing matches this – it’s like going to a rock concert. As I went down the stairs in the store I was thinking ‘this is what Sting feels”

I’ve no idea if the iPhone is really any good, but that’s not really the point.

It just seems very sad that people respond in this way, when it probably won’t be long before there loads of the things about.

back

will blog sometime. it was v wet.

I ‘heart’ – old fogey moment.

Spotted in a comment on another blog earlier, but I notice it popping up here and there more often. What I mean of course is the:

I heart XXXX

kind of thing.

Now, using the heart symbol as shorthand to mean ‘love’, is fair enough. But then to write ‘heart’ instead of the symbol in it’s place, when you could just have written ‘love’.

Sorry, that’s plain silly.

sympathy from daddy


sympathy from daddy

Originally uploaded by Scrumbledelicious.

OK, so kessie weather worsening

aargh, but I will still have great fun, SB and BB won’t notice. the pool is good!

SO into work this morning, reasonably smoothly, but 1.5 hours longer there than planned. Met up with chris and the girls in town, and he had picked up my new glasses. I put them on and SB immediately laughed, told me I looked silly. Apparently they are too noticeable and go perrr-chinggg at you. sigh. that was good for the ego. Have been wearing them all day to get use to them. After lunch in town we left chris shopping and came home.

We did violin practice.SB has cold feet over playing the violin at kessie, and it is prob too wet anyway! so she will prob make up a dance. we did lots of playing outside and made up an adventure course – great fun for both. in breaks, I read some more SoTW – augustus caesar, and also some of our emperor book. SB read me a life cycle of rabbits book. She also did some maths and reading whatever took her fancy.

I did some weeding, planted spare beans in the gaps. the girls helped me with watering – always good for a laugh!!Actually SB very responsible at it, BB watered weeds, SB’s feet etc etc! I think we may have glutted ourselves on strawberries! and also bought cherries today.

Chris was sorting out camping stuff – yes we will bring poles! and girls aslo helped him and pottered about in the hayloft. what else? oh yes, BB and Imade some nice sausage rolls. I think that is it.

difficult day anticipated at work tomorrow. will def have wine at kessie!!

weather

splashing fun in the sun


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Originally uploaded by Scrumbledelicious.

the prob with delayed flickring, is that you don’t get to stuff photos in your blog in the right place!