Friends, Normans and enjoying the countryside
Monday
In the morning M helped A wash the car and then Tech and co came round for a reviving cup of coffee before driving home, so we fitted in a house tour and a bit of a gossip while the children congregated around the computer for a final session together.
Then we had an early lunch of beans on toast and went out geocaching. The sun even came out LOL! We came back via Sainsburys and a housewares shop where I got lots of dyes for doing tie dyeing on MuddlePuddle camp and some voile for our bedroom window.
Tuesday
We don’t stick to school terms and holiday times and we’re not observing the current half term here. In the morning M did some maths and we carried on into the Norman period with his history project. We read “Swearing on the Bones” in Britannia and then M got stuck into the Two Battles quiz and learning about the Battle of Hastings. Afterwards M played out for a while and I finished off sewing a new carrier (I haven’t taken a photo yet) and made a swim towel for L with some left over towelling from when I made M one a couple of years ago. This is it before I sewed on the hood part. Then M helped me with hemming the voile to make a curtain for our bedroom window.
Wednesday
Yesterday M did some more about 1066 and looked at the Battle Abbey website and the Bayeux tapestry. He asked to write sentences instead of doing spelling and got on with those really well. Then we had an early lunch with A and went out to Tesco to buy some cheap T shirts for tie dyeing. For the rest of the afternoon we went back to Gressenhall which has a wonderful adventure playground and we have a museums pass so didn’t have to pay to get in. It wasn’t even awfully full of children on school holiday because the weather was a bit iffy. The sun broke through in the end and we stayed there til tea time, bumping into a couple of families from the home ed groups here. We looked around the workhouse museum for the first time too. We came home to lovely stew for tea and M has decided he does like it after all, so long as I don’t put barley in with the stew mix. L got progressively more and more sniffly and warm and then had a fairly disturbed night - he’s got another cold and it’s upsetting his tummy too.
