Made it!

Finally, I got it made!  Boy, was it hanging over me after I posted about buying seville oranges here on the blog.  I had to go through with it!

It looks and tastes glorious.  However, its lack of structural integrity shows that a friend came round & I lost focus.  On the plus side, it means the kids can't over-jam their toast without it running up their pyjama sleeves.  My cunning plan all along, honest, nothing to do with my domestic incompetence.

Giveaway link

I have just found this very generous giveaway.  I have no idea how to do the button link thing.  So if you are interested in a creative e-course to explore your soul connection, this one might be worth entering.  This lovely blogger is unschooling her two children, with a beautiful blog full of honesty.

Ancient Technology

Today we went to an open day at the Ancient Tecnology Centre to play in a Viking long house, and storytelling in the Earth house.  All good fun.  Bini got to paint on a mud wall, Tintin got to run in the chalk quarry, and Roo religiously carried around 2 small bits of chalk for the rest of the visit. 
Again it was packed.  Half term certainly makes me wish I was homeschooling.  I looked into it initially but Bini was deadset on going to school and she loves it.  Tintin is currently not so inlove with school so it might be time to look into it again. 

Half term gentleness

Most of the way through the half term.  And what a wet one it has been.  Thankfully!  I really don't have the energy to go whooping it up.  So we have found small joys in walking in the wet, wandering down to the community cafe, watching Nanny McFee & Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium (both delightful films), drawing & painting, eating, baking pizza, visiting Grandparents.  I let the kids help me with menu planning the half term week, which threw up some interesting choices!  Today as a snack we had cut up jelly cubes.

On the weekend, we had Bini's first sleepover.  I finally ran out of excuses, so we faced the music.  Five giggling girlies overnight.  Popcorn & movie, dressing up, midnight feasts (at 8pm!), playing Barbies.  All very sweet really.

We managed a day out yesterday as it was finally sunny.  So it seems did the rest of the cabin-fevered half-term mothers around here.  The farm park we went to was completely packed!  A small walk away from the playpark bit was lovely and quiet. 



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Bubbly good fun

After asking to do bubbles in the almost-conservatory, as that is the place I prefer them to do it in, Roo & I went and jumped around with a pot of bubbles.  Well, he jumped & I blew what was left of the mixture after he 'opened' the pot.  After the mixture got just too fluffy to make good bubbles we moved onto more bubble fun.  Bubble painting.  Its the first time I've done it with Roo.  He loved it.  And he only sucked it in a couple of times!  I love the paint effect you get on the paper with this technique.  He was interested in that a bit but the pure joy was in the blowing of bubbles and seeing how big he could get them.

baking on the weekend

Tintin did some baking last weekend.  He asked me if he could make some dinasaur biscuits whilst I was having our tea in bed.  I came down to a bowl full of something looking like pancake batter.  'How much butter did you use Tintin?'  'Oh I forgot to put any in'. 'What recipe are you following?'  He looks at me like I suggested he wear the bowl on his head.  'Of course I didn't, there isn't one!' 
So we went through a recipe book and decided on some shortbread.  It was so lovely to just spend some time with him, whilst the siblings were busy doing other stuff.  Mostly Cbeebies...

The shortbread was shortlived!  We had the last of it visiting the playpark in the pouring rain.  We were that desperate to get out!

Spring...

Oh boy. This marmalade bizniz is getting tedious.  It seems to have taken me forever to get into it.  Have fnally got it onto soak over night this evening.  We have had slightly poorly children this week.  We have a couple of days off. 

Today, however, has been wonderful.  Feeling better enough for a bit of fish-face supermodel posing...

We went for a walk in the sun and felt the warmth on our faces.  Found some snowdrops for the first time.  Played with the camera and took some pictures of them.  Then Roo stamped on them.  Testosteron huh?!


These are sadly somewhat trampled now...