just another morning here

This is what I spent most of the morning doing:

And then spent the vast majority of the afternoon doing this:

The idea is that the braids can stay in all week while we’re away camping at 28:18, hope it will work. Must say I was rather impressed at myself, I’ve never done plaits that tiny before. Or that many. My hands ache! The girls were really pleased with the results too.

So, we’re off tomorrow for a week, twitter is turned off as we don’t have hookup so no phone charger easily available – really should get a car charger! Direct messages are still on though (or should be – wouldn’t mind if someone could test that for me tonight please?!).

Right, must dash. Having spent all day braiding I have rather a fair bit of packing and getting ready left to do this evening! Hope Castle Day goes well tomorrow, all those friends involved, we’ll look forward to seeing pictures when we get home. Have a good week

Abbie went on a ‘Wild Night Out’ at Escot for her class residential this year – an overnight stay where they camped out in the woods, dug their own toilets (ew!), walked through a swamp and generally got wet and muddy.

Haven’t heard much about it yet to be honest as she was so exhausted when she got home that she went straight to bed, and despite a wobble this morning resulting in a whole box of Rice Pops all over the kitchen floor (yes, that is what happens when you try to hit your sister over the head with an open box of cereal ) she has gone off to school hopefully for a relatively lazy day – their teacher was looking fairly exhausted yesterday too so I’m sure it won’t be too strenuous in their classroom today!

Dressed up for a Viking Day at school. Did the vikings wear plaits in their hair, does anyone know?!

Also – just look at the length of those school jumper sleeves. Honestly, children round here just don’t stop growing, aargh!

Feeling the need to gloss over a few days here because they’ve been fairly rubbish, mainly because I’ve been ill. We’ve managed the usual maths, reading, and music stuff … been to the library, and had a trip to Crealy … all on autopilot really. Today I finally took myself to the doctor so things should improve but it’s taking a while. Thankfully Steve had the day off so he was around to lend a hand today.

We started today with an assembly at the girls’ school, because Abbie was receiving yet another Thank You Certificate. We and she were fairly proud of her for this one because she was apparently the first person in all of Key Stage 2 to achieve a certain level of reward for hard work/good behaviour.

After that we took Josiah and Robyn out to this exhibition, which was lovely. (as an aside, can’t believe it’s been three years since the last time we went there!) We had the gallery to ourselves, which was great. Joe sat for ages doing the children’s activity pages and drawing a picture of Parsley the Lion (from the Herbs) for a competition, while Robyn pottered between the rooms and did some drawing of her own as well.

The Wombles were the highlight for me – not sure that I really used to watch any of the others (Huxley Pig, the Herbs, and something else I can’t even remember now! Oh and Paddington, which I did watch but I preferred the books!) Not really supposed to take photos in the gallery but I don’t think you can see any of the actual exhibits in this one

Came home and I faded fast, had lunch and got Joe through maths and music in record time so that I could veg out for the rest of the day. Girls have arrived home from school so now it’s officially half term which feels very nice indeed