Stringbean has spent so long on this that I think it deserves a post of it’s own:
I think it is lovely.
Helen helped her set out the rainbows, becuase she couldn’t quite count/plan out how many to use for each colour, but otherwise the design and work was all her own.
Think I need to fiddle with colour/white balance, it was on a white piece of paper.
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I will let chris add in the morning as he and the girls went to the local[ish] home ed group for an egyptians session.
Your wish……
Good start to the day, BB slept through which is the first for a while – but of little benefit to us since we didn’t got to bed until 2am…. First thing SB wanted to do was finisish of the last bit of the end of the book ‘test’ in the Explode the Code book 1. So she sat and finished that and had breakfast. could cope perfectly well with the sentences they finished with. she was pleased and wanted sticker becuase she was such a good girl 
Then it was quick scurry round, getting dressed and ready to go out, we wer wout by 9.30, as we had to go via Tesco for some sugar cubes, for making sugar cube pyramids. Of course i forget that it is ginormous Tesco extra and so of course buying half a dozen items require a mile walk or somesuch. so were were about 10 -15 mins late to the hall. But all got set up, pyramid building was popular, even if some were more of ruined sort – authentic I guess. Unfortunately BB nor totally perky as she has had nasty cold and wanted a carry much of the time, which when you are trying to keep and eye on what SB is doing, help out what the pyramid builders are doing, chat to soem other parents etc. was bit tiring. Sb also made a hippopotamus out of dough, and a mummy/cask mask. All good fun, and a nice ‘potluck’ Eyptian (very -ish) lunch to finish. A few photos, not brilliant as I was more often than not distracted by something else.
On the way out we bought a sort of Triops Aquapolis from an US family who are moving back home and getting rid of various bits?
While the girls went home with Helen, I went via a couple of shops. I bought soem clocks in Argos. A couple of basic ones for downstairs and Disney Princess one for SB’s room. Relaised we didn’t really have any proper dial clocks around now, and so it’s bit harder for SB to actually learn to tell the time so easily. The two downstairs clocks are both ‘radio controlled’ – they set their time by the rugby time signal or whatever it is. Rather spooky, turning them on and then watching the hands turn to the right time. It wasn’t a feature I’d gone looking for, but the chips must now be very cheap, to find in in the mechanisms of cheap Argos clocks.
This was the Hippo
I had a fairly crappy work morning and then hurried to join them as BB very grumbly, not at all well and ravenous for a feed, so I said hello to everyone cleaning up as i gave sustenance. It is only 5 mins from where I work on Mon, so convenient for emergency feeds. Anyway, nice to see SB in the middle of a gaggle of children having great fun, playing all sorts of games together.
In fact I fed BB all afteroon, or she slept in my arms. SB a good lass though, and we played some games, read 3 different books about egypt and ancient egyptians. She also started explode the code 2 – woohoo! I read some of ulysses, and she then nick juniored.
I had a brief respite from permafeeding and sowed cauliflower autumn giant, and sweetcorn.
We finished the evening with chips from the chippy, and watched the planet.
BB has come alive a bit now – little hope for a good night!!
OK, so it wasn’t one of my better emails,but this is a nothing response!!
?Thank you for your recent email addressed to Shailesh Vara MP.
We are looking into the matter that you have raised and will reply as
soon as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Richard.
this was my crappy email!
Thursday 16 March 2006
Dear Shailesh Vara,
I have been increasingly concerned about the governments Legislative and
regulatory reform bill, and how it in a roundabout will lead to the
potential to abuse the democratic freedoms that this country has
enjoyed.
I feel that the government under Tony Blair are persistantly eroding
freedoms and curtailing democracy, but this bill is the most concerning
yet.
I hope that you do not support this bill
Yours sincerely,
Helen
last night execrable, so why am I still up?? Mostly book balancing as there is a strong suggestion our pay will be cut by approx 350 net – no reduction in hours! So rejigging budgets madly and thinking on wild schemes.
But today good. We went for a chill day. Though peversely SB did more explode the code in one day than she’s ever done before – desperate to finish book 1!
So she cbeebied, and liked the idea of bug food on tikabilla, so everything she has eaten today has been shaped – spider, octopus, butterfly, lion and finally for tea, ladybird! She watched some TV – scooby doo!. We played lots of games – dinosaur ludo, uno and set. Also she helped Chris build the propagator whilst I potted up the aubergines and artichokes.
lots of book reading too – 3 of the Just So stories – we particularly liked he armadillo, a ladybird book about the earth and various library books – she got another spongebob one – yuk! She helped me put smilies on various posts I made today.
BB has been considerably under the weather still and mostly been feeding – and how! She did play a bit with the noahs ark that SB brought down for her, and is always very interested in the keyboard – she has gathered the spacebar and left click are the best buttons to go for!
So, work for me tomorrow, and home ed group for the other beans. We will start a gardening blog I think.
We had Jax and family overnight on their way to relatives. That was fun. SB was desperate on friday waiting for them to arrive, and when they did, she Big and Small vanished. The all slept in her bedroom without too much kerfuffle as well. We adults had wine and chat…
The next day we had the odd ‘stayed up too late and woke up too early’ melting moments, but on the whole they all still got on. Some stickering as a firebreak unfortunately was not entirely succesful, as I hadn’t realised SB’s attachement to some flowery thingy stickers – bad mummy! A short pause of story reading [barefoot animal stories] restored SB’s equanimity. Its clear that Big and SB get on like a house on fire, and have many character similarities. It was also good to see them and Small all playing together inmaginatively upstairs – lots of picnics, dollies and happy street. Small was desperately cute persuading BB to play with him. Unfortunately she is post MMR and with cold, so not at her peak!
So, when we saw them, they had fun with the wacky wigglers – small was totally engrossed. Unfortunately I didn’t get a photo of him roller skating down the hallway later on.
SB and Big really enjoyed sowing seeds together [summer sprouting broc [wok brok], broccoli romanescu and asparagus peas.]
But mostly there was a lot of noise and mayhem!
What fun. SB collapsed in bed tonight with angelina ballerina stories and barefoot princess. No such luck with BB – she has permafeeded and snoozed her way through the day, and resitance to sleep very high indeed!
PS, which 8 of you are up as dreadfully late as me? few minutes after posting this, there are 8 views on the linked flickr pictures!!
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Have come across this a couple of times, passing it on for the benefit of those who haven’t.
Hint – zoom to max
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actually had some sleep last night!!
poor SB has a dreadful cough at night – nost so bad during the day though.
So, what did we do? well, i tried not to do too much TBH and have a chilled day, once the planned multi kid activities no longer required.
So what have we done on our chill day? Well we started with a bit of playing about. SB did some more hama, built towers and castles with various bricks. She then did all but 2 remaining pages and the test in explode the code 1 – woohoo!
BB poddled about – a bit grisley TBH so some permafeeding, but also read books, played with the alphabug and danced to its music. BB can make a stack of 7 bricks on her own, and has a special grumpy face for when they fall over with the 8th. SB did help her make a really huge tower though.
After lunch we went ouside and planted 2 more of the fruit trees. Lovely weather. SB running about and climbing and trampolining. Its good to get out into the fresh air.
When SB got cold we went in and she had a hot choc and bounces around the house on a spacehopper before doing some rainbows on the hama heart. we had a chat about how to do them, and decided i would do one side how she wanted, and then she could copy it. BB also did some hama and some hitting the spacebar on cbeebies. can anyone recommend any other sites where spacebar hitting is all that is required?
We finished with a tidyup, read an usbourne lift the flap nature book and why does my tummy rumble. for once we didn’t play a game before bed as it crept up on us. However, lots of fun and cuddles and tickles through the day with both my girls – good enough for me.
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SB, bless her, wondered what kind of seeds the seed bunny would bring when her first tooth fell out…
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