The run up to Christmas is always hectic here, it comes with the toy shop ownership territory. We looked forward to the Xmas break but for the very best of reasons, it was never going to be. Christmas, visitors, a wedding, decorating – it all added up to a holiday that passed by very quickly […]
Wibble wobble, all fall down.
Sometimes being a home educator is completely brilliant. Sometimes is just one extra thing to beat myself with. Right now baby Ben is asleep in bed, which is a good thing as last night I somehow put my back out and, despite costly trip to the osteopath this morning, I can barely move at all. […]
Easter Holiday Occupation
Wow, what a busy few days we’ve had. Ben has had his first night away from home, I’ve had my first day fending for myself in the real world with a baby (!), we’ve had baby jabs and gym competitions and goodness knows what. And we are still dealing with the hopeless reality of BT […]
Building it up with Lego.
Like I said below, I’ve been setting the girls little Lego challenges over the last week. I hadn’t seen the Legoquest blog someone linked to in the comments below which was exactly what I was looking for to inspire me (doh, I am hopeless at successful google-ing); I wanted a Lego equivalent to Sketch Tuesday. […]
Gonna build a house.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been setting the girls a daily Lego challenge to try and stretch their ingenuity a little. They love their Lego but tend to want to build to plans from kits or make floor plans of buildings and play within those. That’s fine so far as it goes, but […]
Lego Friends Range Review
There has been a good deal of debate recently about the new Lego Friends range, a role-play style, very pink range of Lego aimed primarily at girls. Much of that debate centred more, in fact, on the decision to alter girl magazine subscriptions to a girl version, which didn’t go down well, but the Lego […]
Lego challenges and face drawings
Max and I went to register Ben today, something that, for simplicity, has to be done in the next town. I wanted to do it here, in the one that the girls were registered at, as only Freddie was registered at the other one and i thought it would be very triggery but in the […]
Maddy is 12.
I planned Bens birth, well, his virtual birth, as carefully as I could so as not to affect Maddy’s birthday but Ben had his own ideas and so we were home and back. Luckily I had done lots of early buying, but things didn’t arrive on tie or were wrong. It all felt like, as […]
We could open our own Lego Emporium by now!
They say that families with children are split between being either a Playmobil or a Lego family. In the early years, we were lovers of Duplo, then strayed away to the other side; my girls have always been rather ‘immediate play’ children and ready made pieces seemed to suit their style better. Then a couple […]
This week we learned….
That Maddy is a stop motion animation genius. There are 700 photos in that clip, all taken on my iPhone with no help (and only a Lego built stand for it) and all the timing comes from her singing the song in her head as she did it. I put it into Windows Movie Maker […]
