tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229512019189457492024-03-14T04:58:14.974+00:00HOMES'COOL'!!A home educating family's blogHomeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-43848760812043741732012-04-14T23:22:00.003+01:002012-04-14T23:22:57.893+01:00A trip to London : Tate Modern<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
First of all I feel I must start with a general catch-up. Only two posts in the last two months.</div>
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This is down to the fact that:</div>
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N has been permanently tied to the laptop and only leaves it to go play out with her friends who are on Easter break!</div>
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I don't have a car at the moment and this has restricted our whereabouts.</div>
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We have been decorating again....</div>
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Eating chocolate....<br />
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N has been on two activity days with Autism Family Support which she thoroughly enjoyed; a games day at The Mish and ten pin bowling at the Kassam stadium (where she unfortunately left her bag on the bus but we won't go into that). Hubby and I spent 6 weeks agonising over the completion of N's disability living allowance form - filling that beast out was draining.</div>
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We lost one of our guinea pigs:(</div>
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We've had some great weather so we have been pottering about in the garden and trying to make the most of it. Me wearing shorts in March?? fabby.</div>
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Today we were off to London. Hubby had an interview for Cricket Without Boundaries....</div>
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This is his nervous look. He's hoping to go to Botswana next year for two weeks to coach cricket and raise HIV and Aids awareness.</div>
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We dropped him off here........</div>
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and went along to the Tate Modern.... ta daaaaaaa</div>
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we saw a picasso</div>
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and the less exciting Richard Wentworth (sorry to any of Richard's fans but seriously it's two chairs stacked with two balls hanging off them)</div>
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I was super excited to see the Damien Hirst exhibit. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside as I was informed when I got caught taking a few. So here are a three I managed to download from the internet......</div>
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Lovely, and something I am so glad N and I experienced.</div>
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Not to be forgotten is the slide that plays violin sounds as you go down. </div>
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After Hubby had finished his interview we met up for some well earned food....</div>
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After seeing 500 people with M&M shop bags we couldn't resist taking a look, if only for the photo opportunities alone. Lets face it - we can't afford to buy anything in there.</div>
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Our trip home - yes you can sit next to Daddy, you've asked me 3 questions a minute all day and my brain needs a rest! Cue N doing the platform announcements for the whole journey Baker Street to Hillingdon.</div>
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I can't believe how quickly the time is passing, although I do feel like I am always saying that so I should be used to it by now. Still I haven't found the time to post since Pancake Day!</div>
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We feel like we have been really busy......</div>
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most of N's time during the day has been spent tidying and re-arranging her room. Here is how it looks at the moment - super tidy bookshelf....</div>
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N - very proud of her tidy room</div>
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super tidy surfaces - every thing is strategically placed....</div>
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N has also been spending hours reading, at the moment she likes Louise Rennison</div>
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and Marailyn Kaye. N does most of her reading to herself but we decided to make a concious effort to share a book together, which mainly consists of N reading it aloud to me - she does let me have a go sometimes! Anyway I have really enjoyed it. It is definitely something I have missed now N is such an independent reader. So far in the last 2 weeks we have read </div>
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The Worst Thing About My Sister by Jacqueline Wilson</div>
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Better Late Than Never (Gifted Series) by Marilyn Kaye</div>
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at the moment we are reading The Raspberry Rules by Karen McCombie.<br />
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N had a particularly emotional few days last week, and she was feeling very sad about having Aspergers. Bless her she really is remarkable how she has just accepted it all but it must be hard having already lived almost 10 years before finding out you have the syndrome. Anyway I decided to cheer her up by going to watch.....<br />
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The Muppets at the cinema. It has been out a long time now so I felt fairly comfortable that it wouldn't be too busy for her. Anyway she loved it and we were both giggling in the cinema. N kept checking to make sure I wasn't crying at the sad bits!</div>
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We have also started to decorate the kitchen - which has got as far as N painting the contents of a tester pot on the wall! We really must finish it off, lets face it, it can't possibly take long to paint such a small room!</div>
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After Maths and English this morning we decided to play cards. I left N to set the game up and came back in the room to be greeted with this......</div>
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"We are playing a game with every single one, Mum" she said!! We didn't get through them all before lunch, but these were my new favourite. N had bought them for 99p from the clearance shelf in Waterstones the last time we went to the Ashmolean Museum, and we hadn't had a chance to play with them yet. They are a must for any Jacqueline Wilson fan!</div>
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three times a day. It's the brush that the occupational therapist gave us to help with N's Sensory Processing Disorder. We have to brush it down her arms and do pressure massages on her head, shoulders, elbows and wrists. I've had to set an alarm on my ipod to remind me to do it, morning, afternoon and evening, but hopefully it will help her.</div>
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Lastly, this is Ralph's new haircut for the warmer weather.</div>Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-74841355057028349632012-02-21T18:35:00.003+00:002012-02-21T18:35:47.398+00:00Pancake Day (a little early for us)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There was some expert flipping.....</div>
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they all had fun, and it was a really lovely moment I won't forget and joking about my small kitchen aside - it was really special to see it filled up with family.</div>Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-33839278982117990802012-02-21T08:33:00.002+00:002012-02-21T18:27:06.363+00:00The Maths, The Witch, and The Soda BreadN's performance on Friday of the White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was great, (despite screaming hysterics on Friday morning that she couldn't possibly do it!) and I managed to watch it without crying!!<br />
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We started off our week yesterday as we mean to go on with cookery and maths. <br />
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Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall had inspired me with his ever so simple soda bread. I thought it would be perfect for N as she loves making and eating bread, but waiting for the dough to rise needs so much forward planning. This recipe really is so simple for children to do all on their own.<br />
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However M was the only person who actually liked the bread, it was a bit too stodgy for N and Hubby. I vow to make a gluten free version to see what its like!</div>
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<br /></div>Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-38950357374578955562012-02-15T14:50:00.000+00:002012-02-15T14:50:26.126+00:00Ebay, Pepper and DramaI'm still not keeping up with my blogging, I am struggling to find the time. N has been sorting out more things to sell on Ebay, (seriously who knew she had so much stuff).<br />
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Pepper has been feeling unwell, but Ralph has been on-hand to make her feel better......<br />
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N is at a drama workshop in Oxford - Put On A Play In A Week - The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, we are very excited about seeing the play on Friday.</div>
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N really enjoyed the tour, her favourite parts were; the canteen!, the new music block and of course the library. We have filled out the application form and just need to wait and see now if she will get a place as we have missed the first round of applications.<br />
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It will be such a major change for us all, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.........(fingers crossed for a happy ending!)Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-91078287325229237652012-02-04T15:15:00.000+00:002012-02-04T15:15:54.010+00:00first wish completed & M moves in.....I haven't posted recently, we have been so busy.<br />
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N decided she wanted to buy herself a double bed, and set about sorting out mountains of things in her room that could be sold on Ebay in order to pay for it. The last 10 days we have been drowing in a sea of parcels to send off, yes we made the mistake of listing 70 items all at once. It seems like a good idea at the time until all the listings finish on the same day and need sending off!<br />
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All of this means that N was the first person to complete a wish on the wishing wall.<br />
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M (N's 20 year old brother) has moved in with us this week and we are all really excited about it, M & Hubby have worked really hard to get all of his belongings squeezed into a VERY small bedroom, but it does help that he is super tidy!!<br />
<br />Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-47072277567891136422012-01-24T21:44:00.001+00:002012-01-24T22:08:34.015+00:00First post of the year (shame on me)I can't believe that I haven't sat down to write a post since mid-December. It is true that Christmas rushes by as a blur of parties and merriment.<br />
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N has a new blog at <a href="http://www.quirkygirlfromjupiter.blogspot.com/">http://www.quirkygirlfromjupiter.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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Early January we decided to create a Wishing Wall (inspired by the pinterest at Winding Circle). Each of us (moi, hubby, M and his girlfriend E, L and N) wrote down our wishes for 2012. Things we would like to do, achieve, see or experience. Once a wish has been completed then the wish is taken from the wall. I wonder how many will still be there in December!<br />
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We have been to Egypt on holiday for 11 days of (in theory) sunshine! N had a great time at the water park going down all of the slides, she didn't quite achieve her goal of going down all 32 in one day though! N took 6 books on holiday with her and by the 4th day had read them all! I had taken Harry Potter and the Philosphers Stone with me, (I had bought it from a charity shop ages ago for N, but she always refused to read it as she was too scared) anyway I managed to convince N to read it once I had finished it and she loved it so much she read it in a day. N is now a converted Harry Potter fan, so we settled down together as a family and watched the film this evening.</div>
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Tomorrow is the official start of us 'getting back into the swing' of things. N is off to an Olympic Games workshop at The Ashmolean in Oxford, which should be really good and had me scouring the shelves in the homeschool room....."I'm sure I bought a couple of Olympic Games books from a charity shop years ago".....If only I was as organised as Hubby, it would all be alphabetised!</div>
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Speaking of organisation, this is the state of the homeschool room after 6 weeks of parties and holidays. Oh dear a little too much seating and not enough workspace me thinks.</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"> made drinks coasters for christmas day by cutting out circles from old christmas cards</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">she has been colouring christmas pictures, listening to christmas songs, playing the piano, watching christmas movies and playing with friends.</span></div>Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-509976104817432812011-12-03T17:55:00.001+00:002011-12-03T18:07:00.062+00:00Christmas Decorations, Bourton Lights and Grandma's Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
It's the beginning of December and that can only mean one thing - time to put up the Christmas decorations. Hubby had kindly kept the day free of work so that we could put them all up together.</div>
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The tree is my favourite part.</div>
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The dogs were very good about all of the change happening in the house and the excitement. I am not sure what they made of the singing santa!</div>
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In the evening we drove to Bourton On The Water for the switching on of their Christmas lights. It was very magical, much better than the Witney switch on. They had people dressed in period costume, owls from Birdland and even a snow machine.</div>
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The christmas tree is stood in the water, there was a real ooooh factor when the lights came on.</div>
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Today was grandma's birthday and she came to visit for lunch, afterwards Grandma and N played cards while Pepper and Ralph made sure nobody cheated.</div>
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Last night we walked into Witney for the Xmas Light Switch On, there were literally hundreds of people wedged into the market square. N was very annoyed that moments before David Cameron came on stage to switch on the lights - someone with a child on their shoulders pushed in front of her and she couldn't see a thing. She made sure she moaned about it loud enough for them to be totally aware of her disapppointment!</div>
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an Elvis impersonator with a gospel choir singing slightly Bollywood, Caledonian bagpipe players and lots of lights.</div>Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-50567555045475276402011-11-24T20:27:00.001+00:002011-11-24T20:34:39.332+00:00Making Chutney at Cogges<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We all had a lovely day, considering we are near the end of November the weather was very kind, and we agreed that the Outdoor Learning sessions at Cogges had been one of the highlights of 2011 and we hope we will be given the opportunity for something similar in 2012.</div>Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-86604639491291287602011-11-17T21:06:00.001+00:002011-11-17T21:23:04.188+00:00Passing on a love of Twilight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Now, I am not afraid to admit that I adore the Twilight Saga books by Stephenie Meyer. There have been many times where I have realised I'm an hour late making dinner (much to N's disgust), because I've had my head stuck in one of the books.</div>
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I have been saying for while now that N is at the stage where she could read the first three books - Breaking Dawn is a little too graphic for a 10 year old! So yesterday I passed over my much loved (I bought it 2nd hand and I've read it twice!) copy of Twilight to N. She started reading it at 9.30pm last night and finished it at 3.30pm today, with 434 pages that is pretty good going. Needless to say she loved it. I think it hurt to put it down long enough to get washed and dressed and eat!</div>
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I managed to coax her away from New Moon and out of her room for dinner this evening, although it was to watch the Twilight movie. She reminded me of myself watching the film after reading the book and criticising what was missing or changed!<br />
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N always loves watching the bonus features on dvd's; finding out how the film was cast, how the wardrobe was chosen, which scenes were cut etc, so of course we had to watch the extra documentaries this evening too. I hope Stephenie Meyer's own story inspires N, after all it was the first book she had ever written.Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-90358515620904790782011-11-16T17:48:00.001+00:002011-11-16T18:27:54.188+00:00AWOL for a month!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Aside from chasing balls, this is what the dogs have been doing........</div>
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We have been throwing ourselves into English and Maths and had the wonderful lightbulb moment last week when N really understood division and the fact that she can work the sums out quite easily when she wants to.<br />
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We had National Schools Film Week and N went to the cinema for free to watch Rio and Cars 2. N spent a week at a Creation Theatre workshop 'put on a play in a week', she had a fabulous time and the play was truly wonderful. She has been to two birthday parties and had her own Halloween party.<br />
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We went along to a 'Whodunnit' crime solving workshop at Science Oxford and N had first prize for solving the crime first.<br />
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We've been along to card club with N's Nanny and we made a coach load of christmas cards. N has been practising the piano on her own, as we can't afford to restart the piano lessons at the moment.<br />
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N did a little mini project on Helen Keller, we subscribe to the <a href="http://www.schoolexpress.com/">School Express</a> free themed workbook a week. They are not always age appropriate but I tend to save the ones that I think would interest N.<br />
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The binoculars are out along with the bird spotters guide, now that most of the leaves have fallen from the trees at the back of the garden. We even took the binoculars to Blenheim Palace this afternoon.<br />
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The building is beautiful and built at the beginning of the Georgian period.</div>
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Inside the museum are various 'rooms' set up as they would be in different eras. We felt spoiled as three of them were Georgian and there were lots of things to look at.</div>
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We are still working through our <strong>Georgian project</strong>, yesterday was an excellent opportunity to discuss the <strong>voyage of the Beagle</strong>. Any excuse to talk about <strong>Charles Darwin</strong> and i'll take it! Next week is <strong>Dr Edward Jenner.</strong><br />
These are the things I love about home education, the freedom to play, make or learn about whatever we choose. Helping N to understand how clever and inspirational people throughout history have helped change the world is very important to me.<br />
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I am loving Education City (<a href="http://www.educationcity.com/">http://www.educationcity.com/</a>) at the moment. Yesterday we were identifying <strong>Protagonists </strong>and <strong>Antagonists</strong> within stories. This morning we discussed it again in the context of some of N's favourite shows. After a quick reminder of the definitions of protagonists and antagonists she could quickly identify both (with good arguments to back up her opinion if challenged!) N loves watching television and I don't discourage it. In fact when she was diagnosed with Aspergers, they commented that it had most probably helped her a great deal. <br />
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We have been busy enjoying the glorious sunshine that we have been so lucky to have. Picnics, water fights, conker hunting, every opportunity to be outside we have taken.</div>
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We even put up the pool in the garden (for the first time this year!), N had great fun with her friend all weekend cooling off in that. <br />
Here is a good example of what happens if you dare to relax on a sun lounger in our garden.......<br />
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We had been really looking forward to it, so we could put Ralph into the terrier racing. He is the fastest dog at the park after all! (and he really wanted to win me a bottle of wine, he told me so!) Just look at how excited he was at the prospect of chasing a small furry thing across the field....<br />
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Sadly for poor Ralph, the only thing on his mind when the stalls opened was - where is my mum?! He didn't chase after anything! Never mind.<br />
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After a trip to the hospital on Monday, N had her cast taken off and as long as she is careful doesn't need another one on. No cartwheels for 3 more weeks!Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-56550895361476318872011-09-28T20:25:00.002+01:002011-09-28T20:25:56.175+01:00Living Coasts - Torquay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Living Coasts in Torquay is a coastal zoo, and definitely the best aquarium type attraction we have ever been to.</div>
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The macaroni penguins they have outside are amazing and N even said it is the best penguin enclosure she has seen. At feeding time the ropes were pulled back and the penguins came out to be fed.</div>
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Inside is where the magic began. As we made our way down through the mangroves (which was too noisy and dark for N), we came across a 'bubble' which you could sit, stand or lie in and it put you underwater in the seal enclosure. The seals were playing with N while she was there, coming up and laying alongside her. Living Coasts was quite quiet at the time so N could spend a lot of time interracting with them.</div>
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We took a trip to <a href="http://www.pennywellfarm.co.uk/">Pennywell Farm</a> . We had a really great day, there lots of things to see and do and everyone was very friendly.</div>
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N always loves to see the farm animals and although her mum (me) ALWAYS feeds the goats (my favourite) and the sheep, she has never been brave enough. Until we visited Pennywell! She loved feeding the animals and was thrilled that she managed to do it.</div>
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She even stroked an owl.</div>
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We enthusiastically followed the stamp nature trail.....</div>
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We are back from our holiday to Torquay, we had a lovely time. It was probably the first time we have been on a seaside holiday without playing on the beach, paddling in the sea and using the caravan park swimming pool...(all out of bounds to poor N with her cast on her arm)</div>
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The cliffs were 400 million years old.</div>
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The first 'chip shop' fish and chips I have tasted in almost 10 years. It was magnificent!</div>
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Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-40444562612019231082011-09-08T18:28:00.002+01:002011-09-08T18:28:57.002+01:00Taking Science Thursday toooooo far<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She came off her scooter with a somersault yesterday evening and has a possible fractured scaphoid, which apparently doesn't show the fracture for 10 days.</div>
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She coped so well with the 3 hour wait, but it all got a bit too much with the apparent smell of the wet plaster and the sling on her arm (she doesn't like things on her arms)</div>
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Homeschool familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02495518699069567943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822951201918945749.post-14782188221215998232011-09-07T19:18:00.003+01:002011-09-07T19:19:11.445+01:00Coconut Biscuits (Cookery Wednesday)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(at least halloween is approaching, although I don't think that was in her thoughts at the time)</div>
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So here are a couple of dog photos as I haven't posted any for a while......</div>
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Pepper got bored with her ears so decided to wear them inside out for a change.</div>
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