familytreehouse.co.uk

8 foot wide. less than 12 months old. Wont fit in new garden safely

£30.

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After an exhausting after noon at CLAS for Steve and Asha. I enjoyed doing stuff at home. We went to the “fireworks” in caernarfon. Its location is beuatifull, because they hold it over the marina. I would love to just collect the locations of displays for a photo blog. But as we dont even have a photo of caernafon marina.. that isnt going to occur! Well we sort of went to them.. we got there as they ended As all professional firework watchers should

Anyway all the kids had a great time, and us adults did I think as well. Its so much easier doing things like bonfire night with a group. I think its because Asha is off an age where she loves being with older kids, and they do tend to look after her for me.

Anyway, after the event we all went back to J’s for sparklers, which Asha thoroughly enjoyed.  Last night Asha did a Big sleep, although she did wake up for a small period around 1.30 with cramp again. She was screaming out for me as well…I do think I should sleep outside on nights like that!

Plan for today? Pain killers + pain killers = some pain relief = coffee… good plan hey

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Asha slept well last night, which has made this morning far easier for me. I was left praying last night as I was so exhausted, that she would sleep and she did… I am not religious.. but just in case.. THANKYOU GOD! - manners never cost anything do they

Anyway, I have packed Asha and Steve off with J to CLAS. Thanks J. Has any ever told you your a hugh STAR. And although I have know you less than a year your also probably one of my best friends now as well! - now is this a good thing????

So I was back home for around 12. and have washed the few dishes in the kitchen, cleaned the cat tray. Made a coffee. Realised i need to make those phone calls, and made a coffee.

However I am meant to be sleeping.. Cant you tell!

On leaving Asha at J’s today I told her I am going now, and that I love her.. her reply. “GOOD” now is that good that i love her, or good that i was going? Anyway a moment later she ran to me for a kiss.. then went off again. I love my little daughter, she is sooo content!

right I am now having a drink, then making those phone calls. I am sure Asha and Steve will be loving CLAS by now, and hopefully R and her children from Gymnastics will find the hall as well!

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welsh translation sign

When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.

Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated”.

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Every night this week they have kept Asha awake. I am now really starting to get annoyed with them.

Anyway today we had a lazy day. I didnt get much sleep lastnight, so didnt make it over to Fords again, or to swimming in portmadog.

We did eventually get to Pwhelli this afternoon however to get some jobs done we were going to do on Thursday. This leaves Thursday nicely clear for us, which is great. As I hope to pick some boxes up tomorrow, and pack them. and then do some more on Thursday.. We may do a trip through to Bangor on Thursday to sign paperwork as well… No us excited.. really…

Asha has played outside.. done some maths with daddy, and drawn a lovely picture today for me. She also sat and watched the roal dahl video with me again, played with her teddys, been out for lunch, and chosen which items to buy for ff for her birthday. Only home edd kids at age 10 would want plates wouldnt they!… O.k. not quite “plates” but willow patten plates, cos they collect them!

Oh well thats sorted, so hopefully now, all we have to do is wrap them, make lunch for S and A tomorrow, and I can get to bed soon, as i am sitting here exhausted.

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Well we went to the normal gymnastics class today and discovered that one of the little girls is also being home educated and has no home edd friends near buy! We are less than 10 miles away, I used to do that to school every day.

We were both very pleased to realise our little girls could not only do home edd together but also gymnastics :d

As for Asha and her gymnastics she still loves it.

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And what have we done?

Friday afternoon- was spent at a home edd friends. There was 5 children aged 4 - 12, playing at halloween games. They all had a lovely time, playing at ghosts and trying to see who could make the most noise.

They played catch with balloons and basically enjoyed them selves. On the way home we talked about halloween and how it was the day the souls travelled along the earth, and that Saturday was all saints day.

As it was J and K’s wedding aniversary today, Asha also made them a card.

Asha went trick and treating with her friends in the village. She really enjoyed herself. She then had a bath, and having drunk some bath water, was sick.. Silly girl. She slept well though.

Saturday. We didnt do swimming, as Asha still has a bit of a cold, so we just chilled out really. Asha did some reading with me, and we read a load of halloween type books. We Also did some painting, and Asha played with the two little ones next door, as the weather was surprisingly mild. So she played on the trampoline, bikes and generally did what kids do.

Sunday - another day at home. Asha did her normal morning routine and then we also made a book about the food colourings we tested with coffee papers a few days ago. We also made a weather clock for one the kitchen wall.

This morning in bed, Asha and I played around with days of the week and there sequence, we also did some fun games about months. April is the month for snow, and christmas is in February.. didn’t you know that! NO mummy.. April is your birthday, and Christmas is in December mummy!

We also talked about the term “dont” this is because when ever I say to Asha.. Dont do.. something she does it anyway :d

Asha enjoyed playing with about 15 kids in next doors garden tonight as well. We let her have a late night, as all the kids were out playing. Exhausted she went to bed, just with daddy reading to her tonight.

She also made a

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Halloween…..

Can I go sweet hunting?”

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For a while now I have wanted to record many phone conversations I have. Mainly to do with local councils and dept of work and pensions.

However I have always been told its illegal. well :-

http://www.retellrecorders.co.uk/legal/home.htm

Happy times are ahead, as my trusty tape recorder is about to come out :d

Vicki xx

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Wakes up at 6 am.. demanding breakfast. Daddy to the rescue.
7.30 mummy can hear her dancing and singing downstairs. So resigned to the fact of Asha wont be quiet drags herself out of bed. 8.30 were on our way to swimming lessons.
10. o’clock very proud of herself Asha ends lesson and we head home.
11. does some maths with her abacus.
11.40 makes a lift the flap book about swimming
12.40 lunch
1. 50 is current doing glass painting downstairs.

purple fairy

…followed by more adding up with abacus, followed by painting a chimp mask, and every five seconds being Asked where GRANNY is and being told she is naughty. Its 3.07, time we are normally trying to wind Asha down and no sign of granny I am NOT amused.

Considering for the last three nights Asha has been in bed for 6 this is not fair nor funny.

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I have been lent some cuisenaire rods by a good friend on an extended lend for Asha.

Has anyone any of the game books they could lend me for a couple of weeks? Or just some ideas?

Vicki

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Asha had a great nights sleep last night, and as a result has been a really bright girl today.

This morning she was keen to go swimming and seems to have really enjoyed herself.

One thing she did which made me laugh was, the teacher was trying to get all the swimmers to swim under a hoop. It was very close to the water.. Asha - typically- lifted the hoop up so she didnt get her face wet. Why not.. she aint daft!

Tonight she insisted on having a bath “to practice putting my head under” so no soap in it :d

After a go at lying on her back with no help (it was very shallow at this point) I then added to the water and asked her what toy she would love to have in the bath if she got her face all wet.. her reply a bouncy ball… Deal done.. her face went under.

Then daddy joined in and put his head under to encourage her to continue the good work. (yay for daddies)

Anyway.. away from swimming.. We had a lovely afternoon playing with toy cars on the lounge floor and practicising the “dig it” song from her “boogie babies” dvd i got her for her birthday. We also did some art “work” o.k. at dinner Asha wanted to blow bubbles in her water, so once she had consumed enough to help her body, I added some food dies to it. We then got the white coffee filter papers out and Asha dripped the colours onto the papers.

We also noticed you could use a straw like a pipet dropper by holding your thumb on the end.. Science in the making I guess!

Todays bargain? A trip to the charity shop in Portmadog, supplied us with one copy of HIAWATHA DVD, (£2) which I have wanted for ages for Asha, and a small night light for her to paint with her glass paints (50p)

This morning before swimming she also wrote some lovely number 1’s out for me and did a lovely copy of the word “one” I just have to keep her interested in it all. We also did some Welsh on the way around, and some reading and poetry.

We have also been talking about baby animal names.. Anyway I found this link to help me out!

http://www.treasureranch.com/treasure/rzuinfofiles/terms.html

Vicki xx

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Asha has been having lessons which I have payed for, but next week - from tomorrow the council is providing 5 free lessons for half term week.

I am quite excited by this as Asha is very nearly there, in so much as she wants to be able to swim with no float. is confident in the water, but just needs practice. Will five days make all the difference?

The ONLY hurdle for us is the small fact that I have to leave the house at 8.45 in order to get A to her lessons in time! (9.30 start) Anyone who knows me will know how hard this is off late with the cfs.

Vicki xx

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for the last few weeks Asha has not wanted to play out or anything on a sunday as she has been very tired, after very busy weeks. But this afternoon she has enjoyed playing with two little ones who also live in the road.

After running around outside and riding there bikes they came inside and took over the living room. Blankets out and tucked in they sat and watched some camberwick green for a while, whilst playing with the fuzzy felts I finally got out of the loft yesterday for Asha. You would think it was some really expensive present the amount she has been playing with them. I love toy rotations!

They then found all her toy cars - also just out of the loft, and once again they played and played so for about 4 hours today I have had three children aged, 2, 3 and 4 playing in our front room. And they were so happy!

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Welll may be i finally have found an answer!

http://www.sinopia.com/paint.html

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/2006-10-01/Make-Safe-Natural-Paint.aspx

Are we going to be making paint in a few weeks then!

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Now why do I find it ironic that this peice of work is being removed by the council....

Westminster City Council said it would paint over the 22ft-high (7m) mural on Newman Street, off Oxford Street, which is a criticism of CCTV in the UK.

There political excuse being this

Mr Davis, who is also chairman of the council’s planning sub committee, said: “I take the view that this is graffiti and if you condone this then what is the difference between this and all the other graffiti you see scrawled across the city?

“If you condone this then you condone graffiti all over London.”

The mural is painted on a wall of a building shared by Royal Mail and another business.

The council said once it was established who owned the painted wall the artwork would be erased.

Now considering the amount of work which councils have sold… I just hope the wall owner says NO!

Just because the truth is out and the council don’t like it!
bbc web site

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Granny took me to her leisure center at haulfryn today. I had a lovely time.

Then we went to petes eats for tea. I had egg and chips. While we were there we met joe and illa. She had a sore foot on wednesday, but its a lot better now. I was very tired when I came home.

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Some organisations will give reductions for home educators.

If your in doubt as to how to access these reductions, contact them directly. If you know of any group / organisation please let me know and I will add it to this site as well.

Some require you to be a member of a group, but this can normally be questioned :d

CADW - write to them and they will send you a letter.

Learnpremium offers an online curriculum resource covering the primary
and secondary curriculums and has a dedicated newsdesk news service for
young people.

national trust..

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I recently found the tax payers alliance web site. This article made me laugh.. as many of us home educators struggle to find money to pay for fuel etc…..

Welcome again to the world of waste. In this new edition of The Bumper Book, Matthew Elliott and Lee Rotherham have unearthed a staggering £101 billion of government misspending - all paid for by you, the taxpayer.

But perhaps more usefully, the government could cut the tax burden of every household by over £4,000 a year.

Mind blowing isn’t it?

Here are just a few examples of where all of that money has gone:

* £280,000 on a conference addressed by Blair and Brown on value for money in the public services.
* £400 million on ‘cost control’ for the Olympic Games.
* £3 million by tax inspectors at HM Revenue and Customs on flights, including £2.1 million on flights to Scotland.
* Over £16 million on the creation and upkeep of VIP lounges in Heathrow and Gatwick despite the fact they are not government-owned.
* £100,000 on assessing whether £400,000 reportedly spent on modern art for seven hospitals was money well spent.

tax payers alliance

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Asha had her first sleep over last night. I now sit here very foggy eyed and exhausted.

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