Bookworm
Jonathan joining the rest of the family of bookworms (they are your kids honestly Martin!). I thought he was interested in the Vikings and found this easy reader in the library for him, he told me he...
View ArticleLibrary protest
the council want to close nine of our 11 libraries. In protest many people on the Isle of Wight decided to empty the two libraries they want to leave – to show how two libraries will not cope with...
View ArticleThursday
I’ve blogged every other day this week so I have decided to blog everyday for the whole week so we can have a record of a week in our lives. So in the interests of full disclosure here’s what we did...
View ArticleThese are a few of my favourite things
One morning this week I had a chance to just sit quietly at breakfast time and realised that the table was full of my favourite things. The first daffodils we’ve had this year: A lovely scone with home...
View ArticleThursday Evening
So girls have dashed out to circus with Sue, for a change we’ll need to do the pick up later – usually we manage to not need to do any of the running about on a Thursday night -but tonight Martin will...
View ArticleCorf – the Twits retelling
At Corfe we did a retelling of Roald Dhal’s The Twits. The idea is that you learn the gist of a chapter and retell that part so we get the whole story told by a variety of different people. This year...
View ArticleJonathan’s Birthday
Jonathan had a lovely 10th birthday day on Friday. We always let the birthday person choose the food for the day, Rebekah and Jonathan plan this in great detail months in advance, Ruth doesn’t mind too...
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