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March 2016
It is August. My laptop broke. My life is crazy busy. I stopped blogging. So I am going to do a blog for each month, and then maybe add photos, and then maybe… SO In March I had some holiday and we...
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the real work starts here!
so, since SB is back from SPain, she needs to start her exam prep. originally the plan was to do english, maths, chem, physics and spanish igcse this summer. we dropped physics due to the spanish trip,...
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hmmm goodbye spain
It wasnt all quite how SB needed it to be in Spain, so following some difficult moments, and lots of decision time, she came home. It was brave to go, and perhaps braver to decide to cut things short....
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beating the january blues!
I am not a big fan of January! christmas is over, it is often dull, grey and rainy, and it seems a long way away from Spring. So most years we have had a centerparcs holiday in spring, and this was no...
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back to reality!
I have to say, that my reality for the month of january has, on the whole, been a great big amount of coughing! Particularly for the first couple of weeks anyway! For DH, it has been a start of DIY...
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SB in Spain – week 2 – festival of Kings
Clearly there isnt going to be so many words about SB in Spain as her Spanish hosts are not internet savvy types so I’m not going to get any photo updates or words from them, so relying on the odd...
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SB in Spain – week 1
SO SB and DH had to get up at a very ungodly hour to go to spain by plane. she had a set of new luggage for an xmas present to set her up nicely. all of the flight and travel went v straightforwardsly....
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New Year’s Eve
We had a fab new years eve and day. we went to our friends’ house TB, played lots of games, laughed a lot, ate well, and drank in moderation . We all missed SB, but were sure that she was happy in...
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rest of christmas – the at home crew!
we had a bit of a ‘home and away’ scenario come tuesday. i was back at work, mum and dad had agreed to stay with M and E until weds, as DH was taking SB off to Spain and her en famille exchange. so...
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christmas 2015
I love christmas and always look forward to it. it is a celebratiion of family love and conviviality, warmth and light in the depth of winter. As BB pointed out, our family is getting smaller . We have...
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running up to xmas
having got a bit behind on blogging, and so much has happened, this is going to be a bit of a quick one! SB worked hard, predominantly on English right up until the weds, when people started to arrive...
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weds4ed and other bits and bobs
blogging on a roll today! SB is doing an english paper at the moment, so i am distracting myself from trying to help. so, what other things have happened? clear weds4ed. we had a lovely pre-christmas...
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hallelujah!
SB and i went to a messiah workshop that had been advertised through the county windband. i think i forgot to say that SB got into the county windband – woot! and that she had a fab time on their first...
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christmas is coming
and there is so much work to do! not helped by the fact that our electrics are old, and clearly put in by an electrician many years ago without an obvious plan. so DH has had to take half the house...
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gotta work it
Poor SB has been really stuck into working on return from xmas camp. there just isnt very much time before she goes to spain for 3 months, and whilst she is there she wont be doing any english or...
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ouchy hips and christmas camp [woot!]
the next week had a lot of lasts in it – mostly SB’s temporary last judo and actually forever last ballet. Still ploughing through the home ed, playing a bit catch up for the fun she had when SPD here....
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A nerf gun party
So, well, catching up time! what did we do after SPD left? carried on as we did. got some chickens. BB had a hurriedly thrown together birthday party. We arranged a nerf gun party in the village home....
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A childhood of ballet
SB was really keen to do ballet when she was little, so enrolled into the ballet school in the village approximately 10 years ago. She took her grade 6 last week. Due to time pressures, not least exams...
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Spanish exchange – week 16
It is suddenly such a shock to think of SPD going home. She has become one of the family. we love her company, her laughing, her passion for awful chick flicks and will miss all that. the craziness...
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Chooks!
temporary accommodation for 3 hens – a lilac rock that might or might not have lilac eggs, a mottled leghorn with white eggs with perhaps blue speckles, and a typical farmhouse with brown eggs
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