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Welcome to my blog. It is updated weekly with pictures and projects from our homeschool - maybe you can find something to inspire you :) I have a (no longer updated) materials page elsewhere on my website and will, occasionally, post my homemade materials in this blog.

I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Lush!

Last day of Tim's holiday today .... holiday? what holiday? We seem to have spent ALL of it trying to sort things out and get things mended. Yesterday (finally!) we got our car back, and it cost us precisely no pounds whatsoever (bargain!) This meant that we had a little spare cash because Tim had put money aside in case of expensive repairs, so, we went to Lush! We've not been there for AAAAGES so it was gorgeous to go stock up on some of my favourite stuff - their "The Blonde" shampoo is absolutely brilliant for bringing out all the natural reddy-gold highlights in my hair. We came back with allsorts - for all of us - smellies for me and Tim (and my shampoo of course!), bubble bath slices and shower jelly (yes, it really is the consistency of the sort of muck you used to eat at kids parties!) for Rosie and April.

On the way to Lush we decided to stop off at Poole Park because the kids wanted to feed the ducks (and the enormous great, honking Canada geese!) Large mistake - it was FREEZING! Even April was visibly shivering and she doesn't normally seem to notice the cold. Then there was a bit of a comedy moment when I let go of the empty plastic bag from the bread and had to go chasing it across the grass - it kept moving in the wind every time I reached it! It was lucky I had my boots on because the grass was swamp-like .....

Tim's back at work tomorrow - for ONE day and then he's off again for 4 days and then back to work normally from next Thursday. It's nice to have him around but I shall be glad to get back into our normal routine because we can't seem to get into a good homeschool groove with him about!