The people who lived here before us were a bit of a bad lot. They left without paying 6 months rent, the house was trashed, i’m still fending off debt collectors and baliffs for around £25,000 worth of credit card and various other debt and, not surprisingly, they left no forwarding address. Equally, they had [...]
Read several Roman myths.
Make a list of Roman Gods to compare with greeks.
Add Roman Empire to Timeline book.
Look back at some Roman stories in OIS
Get out mosaic squares and play
Look at Rome in Cross section.
Have a go at some clay columns?
Look at Detectives in Togas and see if it would suit for us soon.
Look on [...]
Max and i spent a bit of the morning revving the car up; he diagnosed black-black smoke to be less bad than blue-black. (Well he would know, if anyone can read smoke signals from an exhaust pipe, he can.) We stuck some cleaner in the fuel and then needed to drive it. So we went. [...]
a) Black smoke coming out in large quantities from the back of your diesel car.
b) Your diesel engineer husband going green.
No need to ask if it’s going to be expensive then
And there went our weekend, approximately 5 minutes after setting off.
We’ve got a hefty weekend of family contact this weekend. I’m really looking forward to seeing my brother and sister, mum and dad, sundry partners and niece mark 3. It’ll be just the thing to keep my mind occupied.
We’ve had a productive day; more reading and maths from both big girls this morning. I gave [...]
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No education today.
Didi manage to get them all bathed and hairwashed by 9.30 (me as well) which was fairly impressive. No nits either, i combed in vain. Excellent.
Dashed out to see Hannah and Linzi. Spent a pleasant couple of hours discussing maths books and so on. Kids did play but eventually separated out into packs [...]