The girls have just discvered that, rather like covering a budgie cage with a blanket, you can stop Josie making her patented squeaky sound if you smother her with a blanket…. Hmmm…. must get off the computer.

Because the only way i can live with this is because i have easy access to this. otherwise i would have gone mad already! Anyway, the girls have played this this afternoon and evening, all at the same time and had a ball. They’ve been very co-operative and worked it out a lot. We’ve only […]

I think it would bve fair to say things are a bit fragile around here, mummy not least. However, i won’t dwell. What has been good? Maddy doing a lovely illustrated story, with foam sticking pictures, Fran playing with Josie beautifully, Josie talking away to us all. Amelie and i spending time sat down doing […]

No, its okay, i’m not about to burst into song!!! I thought i ought to just quickly round up yesterday, which wasn’t all me ranting about birth choices. Incidentally it got far worse after that, when someone decided to announce to the world-in-small that if you have a caesarean you don’t give birth to your […]

***I give you fair warning, this is a birth stories rant and i make no apology for it. Those of a delicate disposition should look away now. This rant is not at a single person i know, but its boiled over in me with the anger i felt at some list conversations i read today. […]

Fran spent much of the day on this very handsome set of gentlemen. Now, interestingly, or interestingly for me anyway, these are the pieces for a board game she is devising, the rules of which are unclear, except in her head. But she is clearly thinking a lot about it. She has done a couple […]

Ahem… no guesses who sat down and did this little selection of bead patterns today then? I think Maddy has got it bad… ;~D Well, today has been largely irrelevant in terms of home education. The kids have lego’d all day and aside from two very lovely sit down meals together, i’ve hardly seen them; […]

We have snow. And its coming down fast!

They come home with a rabbit. Meet Smarty, shortly to become under-the-thumb toyboy for Button. Of course i am utterly paranoid that there is a lurking flea somewhere so he is confined to sterile barracks till i get him to the vet on monday. Cute though. And its supposed to be me who does the […]

First of all, a couple of book references for Nic and someone else. Can’t remember who though! Come Look with Me – that art book… All the Tales from the Ark – the Noah Book. Actually, i’ve not got the first one, it was Alexia’s. I do like it but i have a fair few […]