… i’ve got so behind on blogging that i wouldn’t know where to start. We’re having a very odd time just now, which started pretty much instantly we got back from our truly excellent and enjoyable holiday with Chloe, Michelle and Marcus. I will blog it, even though Michelle already has. Home educating is actually […]

I’ve now got, somewhat to my surprise, 3 readers, more or less. I say surprise, because i was confidently expecting Amelie to do the ‘sometime between 7 and 8’ thing that the elder 2 have done, becasue i’d got to the point of assuming that either that was genetically or socially normal for my children, […]

Red is the colour of poppies that bloom, Orange the shade of the late evening moon, Yellow for sunshine that beams in the sky, Green are the trees that grow really high, Blue is the colour of the river that flows, Indigo wind just blows and blows, Violet for dawn at the end of the […]

Shan’t bother to catch up, too much has happened. Some lovely days with Claire, the Beans, Fran has been away with another friend etc etc etc. I’ve spent quite a bit of time helping out someone nearby, which has occupied my mind a good bit. We’ve had some time away visiting grandparents and so on. […]

Despite the fact that currently my friends rate me as highly on…. being generous, talkative (!), creative, artistic, a good listener, easy to live with, likely to succeed, having dinner with, better friend, kind, funny, nice smelling, organised and useful (some of which make me wonder who this person you know is!)… i have never […]

What a week. I left Fran behind on Sunday night to spend a week with Claire and Charlie in the New Forest; they’ve clearly had a rather wonderful week which i imagine Claire will flickr and blog most fulsomely. Extremely strange to be without her for the 5 days, the others were rather subdued at […]

While at the doctors for assorted items of interest today, my lovely doctor picked up my head, cracked it sharply to one side and after a few clicks, put it back down on my spine again. Result? For the first time in 10 years i can lift my arm up above shoulder height, look all […]

And even avoided twittering it…. however…. “Merry spends Sunday in Claire’s Knickers!!!” I really did 😉 (Must learn to pack better.) 😆 Friday we spent down at the OldManor, which Michelle has blogged beautifully for me. Had a lovely day, kids were all rather lovely and entertained themselves beautifully, while Michelle infected me with the […]

I shall focus on the positive of all this today 🙂 It was that sort of day 😆 Started off with everyone doing music practise. I shall have to get teachers for them sometime soon i think, but money is tight just at the moment, so i’ll be waiting until the new year i think. […]