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Athletics champ!
SB is currently living air cadets. She does band and athletics as well as the two usual weekly sessions. She got a silver in high jump in the regionals as she was in a wing team. In may she got gold in...
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Circus camp
Bb loved circus camp with her friend jsotp. They both did diabolo and bb was v happy with how much she improved. SB and I joined them for the weekend. I had a panic I had left the hob on but luckily...
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Groundhog days!
Currently we are working for GCSE. SB working really well. It is boring tho! Other things are going for a ride. Bb is missing out. The house is a mess. No fun. And there are still the things that have...
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Home ed day 2015
Ok, I can’t not do this this year! I have been blogging a random home ed day every year since 2004. 10 years! Like all this month, sb has been concentrating on exam work. She has completed 3igcse :...
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Parental visit
My parents came up for the weekend, which is always lovely we were going to celebrate with a Chinese on the Friday, but SB had something on with air cadets so we moved that to the sat. Saturday we...
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Last exam!
Yay! All done for this year!! SB has completed her igcse in biology, geography and French. This exam completed her GCSE in classical civilisation. She worked really hard – so has a well done book...
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Kentwell 2015
We did only 4 days this year, and SB only 3 due to judo grading! It seemed a bit odd being so short. I didn’t take many photos and they need uploading from camera rather than being on the tablet ( and...
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Some weds4eds
We have been in a post exam somnolence! Exacerbated by the hot dreamy weather! SB is seeing how quickly she can watch all 6 series of pretty little liars ( lots of openings there for discussion!) And...
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Keeping our rabbits safe
Rabbits without a burrow don’t have all they need for thermoregulation. Burrows are relatively warm compared to outside in winter and relatively cool in summer. Unfortunately a work colleague lost her...
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Spanish en famille exchange week 1
noOh my goodness! We are in progress in our second en famille exchange! Our first one was with frb in france in 2013-2014 and we are now hosting a Spanish daughter SpD. It all happened rather suddenly...
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Introducing fudge!
Bb managed to persuade us some time ago that she could have a hamster when her bedroom was finished. So we got her a huge cage and accessories and then took her to choose her hamster. She was soooooo...
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Spanish exchange week 2
We started the week with a camping trip to former. The weather was pretty blustery and Friday night there was quite a gale that flattened a number of other tents. We had to reassure SpD that our tent...
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Spanish exchange week 3 – family holiday in Southwold
Life is short, and holidays are even shorter! so i took a week of unpaid leave to spend more time with my family and we went to suffolk coast. I have never been to Southwold before, and loved it!...
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Spanish exchange week 4 – an in week
This was quite a quiet week actually. DH mum had a routine operation on the monday and came to stay with us on the Tuesday to recuperate. So it was a quieter worky week around that. SpD is having a go...
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Spanish Exchange Week 5 – an out week
Having had such a quiet week in week 3, this was an extrovert week! SpD is a delightful, friendly, laughing sister for SB and they have a great time together. Although she does a lot of smiling and...
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SB has 4 IGCSEs!
Well, thought I should put the results on the blog of our first public exams [well, excluding music and dance] . We are very proud of all the work that SB did for the exams, despite a pretty difficult...
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Spanish Exchange Week 6 – Kentwell Tudor Recreation.
We had prepared spd for Kentwell by reading Tudor history, walking around Kentwell and general chat. I think she was still not prepared for the experience! Being a first person reenactor is quite...
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Spanish exchange week 7
This week was in part recovering from a rainy Kentwell but also preparing for our summer party. This year somewhat later and more a bit back to school party! I do need to get the gis reenergised to...
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