Much like last year, well, the beginning of it, the girls seem largely content with a diet of skill gathering and story based information at the moment. The Antartica thing was nice and has captured their imagination briefly, but i think having explored the basics of the geography and some map work, the animals, the […]

Well today would be thrice argh! I’ve had a hugely entertaining day, spending my time and irritatingly my own money, making calls to sort out the cock ups of three separate companies. 👿 First off was the letter from Royal Mail in answer to MY letter asking why they hadn’t changed the address of my […]

Pah and thrice pah. Life is never simple; i’ve gone from 2 helpers back to one, next week i’ll have none, i’ve got complicated decisions to make, things to change, systems to create and all manner of malarky. I’d sell up like a shot just now. I really would. It all just feels way too […]

Amelie is acting out a wedding ceremony (surprise!) and has just comeout with a classic vow: “Dearest girl, dearest boy; do you promise to stay together untill you divorce? :LOL:

A Nokia N73 – i’ve no idea if it will be any good but it was free and it’s pretty. Doesn’t have sat nav, but appears to be able to ding and dance in a manner to rival Michael Flatley. I managed to figure out Bluetooth long enough to swap my numbers across, which may […]

So – thursday mainly consisted of tidiying up in the morning, sining tunes from the Muppets Treasure Island and some basic normals from everyone. Maddy read me half of P&J 3b, making it clear even to her that she can in fact read 🙂 Everyone was reasonably happily occupied and that left me time to […]

Look how popular i am 🙂 😉 😉 😉 Would that make this a good “lurkers unlurk!!!” moment? Hellooooo out there, please say hello!!!!!

But there is a lot that is good about ordinary 🙂 Marshalled the children early and got some work out of them; EC for Fran, a whole P&J book from Maddy (woot!) and then some Studydog, some Fimo and writing from Amelie (and Josie… “i do my maffs mummy..”This, along with bits of blogging, some […]

No parcels to do myself meant that i had done stuff with the kids, jiggled the very cute Baby-Flower for a while (up to and including putting her down for a nap which was rather lovely because she didn’t require me to lie down and feed her for 30 minutes first… if i ever do […]

We’ve just read the next chapter on the Rise of Islam from Story of the World and as i’ve heard some remarks from Linzi and Hannah about it not being very accurate, i just want to check a detail before i go on further with the girls. Did Muhammed send his men out on to […]