Half Term Fun (by sarah)

Half term with a new baby and hyper active five year old - actually it was quiet alot of fun though I was soooo tired!

We did painting and crafts, home school and watched films, Jean couldn't really play outside much as I couldn't go with her so it restricts where she can play but she did go to rock mice again and this time she had her rock mice t-shirt 🙂 Rock Mice is a climbing club for 5+ and Jean loves it 🙂

Jean also decided she wanted to have her hair done in lots of different styles - it was all variations on plaits because that's all I felt upto tackling.

Poetry and Piaf (by sarah)

Coming up in Cheltenham on the 31st March-1st of April is The Cheltenham Poetry Festival and I am going to be doing a few things at it 🙂

First off I am reading my Piaf poem at the Poetry and Piaf events which is very exciting as I love listening to the singer perform Piaf's songs and telling us about her life and the tragedy of it.

Tickets are £10 incase any of you want to come along 🙂

The next thing I will hopefully be doing though is not yet confirmed is Murder in the Chapel which is an interactive sluething event and looks like lots of fun 🙂

Lastly I may have a slot reading/performing my poetry in the Beechwood shopping center but again that has not been confirmed yet - if I do then there will be some sci/tech poetry 🙂

Chinese New Year (by sarah)

Jean was really keen to do Chinese New Year so we made lots of lanterns and coughs got a take away and Jean put on her 'chinese' outfit and selected her chop sticks and away we went 🙂

Pancake Day (by sarah)

I managed to make pancakes for pancake day though there were a few burnt ones due to having to sit down etc.. but we had a normal mix of topping mostly (I hadn't managed to grow any bean sprouts this year due to that whole having a baby thing). We had blue cheese and bananna and condensed milk and sugar and lemon juice and grated chocolate and peanut butter (chrunchy) and marmite 🙂

First Outing (by sarah)

On Wednesday Alaric walked up to the school to pick Jeany up - as Mary had just finished her feed he took her with him 🙂

As a result of this Jeany ended up taking her baby sister in for Show and Tell on Thursday morning - Daddy helped by carrying the baby - apparently there was lots of ooing and ahhing 🙂 Though one of the kids did ask if she was a girl :/