Nobody is really up to par even today (with the possible exception of K who was sick for about five minutes on Tuesday afternoon), so we haven’t done much. B didn’t go out to the farm on the grounds that … Continue reading →

B woke in the night with a fever, and she’s still mildly feverish this morning but seems happy. She got up before any of us and was reading Goblet of Fire in front of the heater when I got up … Continue reading →

The gap in my blog last week actually does have a reasonable explanation this time – I had the lurgi first. Thursday morning we did do a bit more maths – B breezed through another repetition of the Smartkiddies 4-digit … Continue reading →

B has the lurgi so stayed home from pottery today. She spent a fair bit of time on her puter searching Youtube (mostly for Goodies episodes, I think), and playing Rune Scape, but also tucked herself up in bed this … Continue reading →

ABA meeting in the morning meat it was 12pm before K and I were doing anything together. We built a tall marble run and had fun with that for ages. Read lots of books. Took a nap together (and for … Continue reading →

fed chickens did the Quiz at the end of Module One on Smartkiddies (scored 9/10) read 1 paragraph Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (HPGF) – she hated reading aloud, so sat and read to herself and asked for … Continue reading →

In draft form because I’m knackered. May come back and expand some other time… Monday: out at farm all day and overnight because she had a brief tummy bug on Sunday night while she was out there. I don’t think … Continue reading →

On Friday morning we spent ages wrestling with reading. Her feelings of being scared of books came up to the surface and I tried to get her to process them (not sure how successfully). She said she wanted to try … Continue reading →

The knitting day was lovely, if a bit slow to start. We early arrivals huddled around the fire as Graeme struggled to get it burning, but eventually it warmed up, more people arrived, and everyone could relax into the knitting … Continue reading →

In possibly unexpected news, we actually did do the Acid Rain experiment this morning! K slept in, so I suggested that we do it before she got up and decided to “help”. B was not terribly excited when the darned … Continue reading →