Well it's definitely Easter here... Egg hunt yesterday and lunch with the inlaws, Daisy, my white sussex, has gone broody... And off to my mum and dads today for more family fun and another egg hunt... Not that they need more chocolate... Lol
Beautiful weather and I'm sat here wondering if Jamie and I would have time to make red, white and blue bunting before Friday... Lol
Must go down and plant up my rhubarb, runner beans, sage, Rosemary and thyme... The veg patch is coming along nicely... Will have to net off the beans though! Lol
Going to update the iPad today so hopefully it might let me upload some pictures...
Wishing you all a wonderful day
Take care
Alex
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Monday 25 April 2011
Wednesday 20 April 2011
How long? Crumbs doesn't time fly....
Well where to start... I have a ton of photo's to share however I have yet to suss out how to upload them using this ipad... Apple products don't use flash player and I haven't yet purchased my £26 dongle to enable me to upload images...
However I can get you up to speed with the goings on over the last few weeks and the images can then follow in due course...
The biggest piece of news being that we have withdrawn Jamie from School and have decided that homeschooling will be the best way forward at the moment, to be honest her education (in my opinion!) is very lacking ... the attitude of her fellow school mates is diabolical and her attitude towards us was fast deteriorating as her friends filled her head with the fact that we were far too restricting and they were able to do pretty much as they pleased...
Other students from all different years were bitchy or snide and these occurrences were not dealt with in a satisfactory manner and Jamie took it upon herself to move class, the teachers kept trying to talk her out of it and eventually they allowed her a taster day in the class she wanted to move to... however an incident occurred that changed her mind about moving into that class when a gang of girls did a very vocal and embarrassing vote at lunchtime asking for a show of hands as to whether Jamie should "piss off"... However a couple weeks later after she had told the teachers that she didn't want to move the head of year told her that she needed her to move anyway as they needed the space in her class for another child.
That was the straw that broke the camels back really and on the last day of school I rang jamie in sick (as I had picked her up early the previous day due to monthly stomach cramps!) and told them that she would not be back after the Easter holidays and that I would be home schooling... their reply was "oh... ok.... could you send us an email please..." which I did.
I have trawled Amazon and have purchased text books and ring binders and paper arrived today from Staples.. I think after I have saved up I will get Rosette Stone so that she can learn french... however I am not sure if it just teaches spoken language or whether it will teach her written french too... I'll get her a passport and in the summer holidays she can visit her Uncle and Aunt in France to test out her language skills...
I think its going to be a learning experience for us both but I am really quite excited about it all...as is Jamie, its as if a weight has been lifted from around her shoulders and she is fast becoming a pleasurable teenager to know...
I have a long list of reading books that we might read and history, geography and a few other subjects will be much more field trip based... visiting places and learning out in the real world..
Daniel is currently enjoying school and I have no plans of home schooling him though! ;D
I have been busy gardening, chatting to the hens, crocheting and I even sold a crocheted rabbit for £20... I was stunned! I sat at the village cafe sewing on his whiskers and lines for his fingers and toes and a lady asked how much he was! I looked stunned and mum chirped up with "£20!" and she said "oohh yes..." I have a photo of him pre whiskers but alas I am at a loss as to how to load it up at the moment! lol
Well I had better pootle off and finish washing up and preparing tea...
hope you are all enjoying this glorious weather in the UK and i hope my far flung worldwide friends are all good and dandy! xx
I'll be back next week as I hope to get my conector for photo uploading at the weekend... I would go and get it tomorrow but I am helping out at a church run easter crafts day at Queen Camel village hall... I think I am in charge of the pottery table, air dry clay and little fingers... mmmm recipe for mess me thinks! ;D
take care
Alex
x
However I can get you up to speed with the goings on over the last few weeks and the images can then follow in due course...
The biggest piece of news being that we have withdrawn Jamie from School and have decided that homeschooling will be the best way forward at the moment, to be honest her education (in my opinion!) is very lacking ... the attitude of her fellow school mates is diabolical and her attitude towards us was fast deteriorating as her friends filled her head with the fact that we were far too restricting and they were able to do pretty much as they pleased...
Other students from all different years were bitchy or snide and these occurrences were not dealt with in a satisfactory manner and Jamie took it upon herself to move class, the teachers kept trying to talk her out of it and eventually they allowed her a taster day in the class she wanted to move to... however an incident occurred that changed her mind about moving into that class when a gang of girls did a very vocal and embarrassing vote at lunchtime asking for a show of hands as to whether Jamie should "piss off"... However a couple weeks later after she had told the teachers that she didn't want to move the head of year told her that she needed her to move anyway as they needed the space in her class for another child.
That was the straw that broke the camels back really and on the last day of school I rang jamie in sick (as I had picked her up early the previous day due to monthly stomach cramps!) and told them that she would not be back after the Easter holidays and that I would be home schooling... their reply was "oh... ok.... could you send us an email please..." which I did.
I have trawled Amazon and have purchased text books and ring binders and paper arrived today from Staples.. I think after I have saved up I will get Rosette Stone so that she can learn french... however I am not sure if it just teaches spoken language or whether it will teach her written french too... I'll get her a passport and in the summer holidays she can visit her Uncle and Aunt in France to test out her language skills...
I think its going to be a learning experience for us both but I am really quite excited about it all...as is Jamie, its as if a weight has been lifted from around her shoulders and she is fast becoming a pleasurable teenager to know...
I have a long list of reading books that we might read and history, geography and a few other subjects will be much more field trip based... visiting places and learning out in the real world..
Daniel is currently enjoying school and I have no plans of home schooling him though! ;D
I have been busy gardening, chatting to the hens, crocheting and I even sold a crocheted rabbit for £20... I was stunned! I sat at the village cafe sewing on his whiskers and lines for his fingers and toes and a lady asked how much he was! I looked stunned and mum chirped up with "£20!" and she said "oohh yes..." I have a photo of him pre whiskers but alas I am at a loss as to how to load it up at the moment! lol
Well I had better pootle off and finish washing up and preparing tea...
hope you are all enjoying this glorious weather in the UK and i hope my far flung worldwide friends are all good and dandy! xx
I'll be back next week as I hope to get my conector for photo uploading at the weekend... I would go and get it tomorrow but I am helping out at a church run easter crafts day at Queen Camel village hall... I think I am in charge of the pottery table, air dry clay and little fingers... mmmm recipe for mess me thinks! ;D
take care
Alex
x
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