In the words of Nanny Macphee *ducks and runs away from Alison* My aim for the last 2 weeks was to get some sort of calm, rhythm and structure back into our days. I feel like we’ve achieved that, i think everyone is much happier in general. next week i’m starting up our “timetable” – […]

Of a not very still life. This was the scene of the top of my fridge this evening and there seemed something so “home educating family with 4 girls”ish about it, that i wanted the photo; ballet school, tap shoes, cheque books, car keys, fruit still in its net bag, fish in a vase in […]

My house is clean and tidy from top to bottom and i hardly did any of it. Gosh that makes me feel so good 🙂 I love Lucy 🙂 I am just SO much less stressed now, it makes such a difference. There is just a layer of general crud being slowly lifted away from […]

Is how it was today, ironic really as i wasv forced to make a dentist appt to have my root canal tooth looked at, as the back has snapped at the gum line and currently flaps about at anything up to 90 degrees from the rest of my tooth. Yum 🙁 Dunno what went wrong […]

One of the first things that happened today was a text from my mum to ask me if i had heard the AB of C’s thoughts on childhood; she followed it up by telling me how proud she was of me for protecting and valuing my childrens childhood (or that was the gist anyway.) I […]

2 bits of good news – of which the first is that my friend has had a scan which hasn’t shown up anything untoward, which tells nothing much in itself but does mean that she has something positive to hold on to for the next few weeks which they wait for screening tests to come […]

Involved another trip to Ikea 🙄 But i think we have every storage solution going now… Involved a lot of tidying, sorting, parcel packing and organising. Involved a certain amount of refereeing children 🙁 I went for a cycle and we mostly managed to ignore the weekends worth of biker campers 🙄 Had a lovely […]

carried on with normalling this morning; Fran was remarkably motivated by me telling her that Gwenny had started the same MPH books as her so she burned through a load of MPH3A/2 in an effort to keep ahead. Oh well, friendly rivalry and all that. She got the hang of vertical multiplication pretty easily anyway […]