This year we chose to do a Feather Down Farm Break at Hollings Hill Farm in Herefordshire. We all had a lovely time –the days were quite idyllic but its a pity we can't say the same about the nights. Bill finds the first night in a strange place difficult and did the usual screaming thing (somehow everyone but me slept through this part). After some soothing cuddles I finally persuaded him to go back to bed only to be startled by one of the farm cats who had by this time found the vacated warm spot. Needless to say Bill would not get back in the bed and the cat would not leave the tent so Daddy got to spend the night in Bill's bed with the cat for company. The other three nights were much the same but without the cat.
Friday 29 October 2010
Autumn Break
This year we chose to do a Feather Down Farm Break at Hollings Hill Farm in Herefordshire. We all had a lovely time –the days were quite idyllic but its a pity we can't say the same about the nights. Bill finds the first night in a strange place difficult and did the usual screaming thing (somehow everyone but me slept through this part). After some soothing cuddles I finally persuaded him to go back to bed only to be startled by one of the farm cats who had by this time found the vacated warm spot. Needless to say Bill would not get back in the bed and the cat would not leave the tent so Daddy got to spend the night in Bill's bed with the cat for company. The other three nights were much the same but without the cat.
Thursday 7 October 2010
... and we're off! (part 2)
Bill is still living life at a hundred miles an hour. He goes to playgroup three mornings a week and really enjoys his time there. He rarely tells what they've been doing but judging by the amount of glue and paint he wears home they must be doing plenty of crafting . He is such a outdoor boy that he spends much of his time in the playgroup garden and in ours.When not out doors he can be found playing with his playmobil ark and camper van. In September we celebrated, with much ice-cream, his 'forever family day' - the day he came to be with us, his forever family. Other things we've done this month included going to the wedding of a dear friend we couldn't be more pleased for him. This was also the month of our church weekend away which the whole family thoroughly enjoyed and could make a whole post on its own. We made Dragon Bread for the first in honour of Michaelmas – I think they did a terrific job although Sarah's did look like a very cute guinea pig pretending to be a dragon.
Sunday 3 October 2010
... and we're off! (part 1)
Percy is doing well with the basics (3Rs and all that) and I won't bore you with details of maths and grammar lessons. His first main lesson block has been on building and practical projects which he has enjoyed very much, what 9 year old boy wouldn't love setting up a workshop and being let loose with saw and hammer? We started by clearing out the top shed and making it into a workshop for carpentry projects (may double as a chemistry lab for Sarah latter in the year but Percy is guarding it with his life at moment – it's become his cave). He spent some time practicing with the new tools and constructed a toolbox. He is now planning on making a tug boat and a pair of stilts over the coming months so more on that later. We also began building a model house with cutest wee bricks but lack of time and illness have made it a work in progress.We will be continuing in this constructing vein over the year. His second block is on the practical aspects of maths and our focus this week has been on linear measurement. We have discussed how you can measure with any unit as long as it's consistent and Percy decided to measure himself in Wowies (his cuddly dog that's been with him since birth) and discovered he is 3 wowies and 1 wowie leg tall. We did also use the more conventional metric and imperial measures!