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It’s been a busy couple of days. The boys all did some formal work yesterday - Latin and French for Barney and George, maths for George, English for Barney, and loads and loads of science for Freddy. They watched Robin Hood - Men in Tights, which I found blah, but it amused them. Last night Barney and George had circus school.

I watched Supersize Me on DVD last night. Ack! Who knew you could do yourself so much damage so quickly?! Yee-uch!

We cleared off early this morning so that Scratchy could do some last-minute revision. We went shopping, and despite my barely being able to walk (when will this baby get off my pubic bone?!!) we found some bargains. Picked up a large cooler bag for £6 (we have one already but I figured a second one would be useful for HESFES), and an air mattress reduced from £35 to £14, and also some of those umbrella-fold camping chairs - the ones with arms and cupholders? I expect to spend a fair amount of HESFES sitting in one of these, so a fiver each seemed justified (Argos, in case any of you are looking). The security guard was very concerned when I sat down outside the shopping centre for a bit - I think he was convinced I was about to give birth there and then, but all I wanted was a bit of fresh air after the virtually-oxygen-free environment inside! But I didn’t want to give the poor bloke apoplexy, so I went in and bought some water and then we headed off home for lunch

After lunch we dropped Scratchy at his exam and went off to visit friends for an hour or two - the home-ed family whose son is participating in the radio prog with Barney. They live close to where Barney, George and Freddy do archery on a Wednesday, so the kids ran about outside together for a while and then we went off to the rec centre for the archery. The BBC producer who’s making the radio programme had asked if she could come along and do a bit of interviewing Barney during the class and get some background noise recorded, and I’d confirmed this was okay with the guy who runs the club, so she came along too.

Then we went and picked up Scratchy after his exam. I am very glad to say that he seems in a much better mood now that his exam is over - which is just as well, since he’s got more or less sole responsibility for the kids for the next few days while I hit the books and he’s also got a list of stuff to get prepared for HESFES (though I haven’t told him that bit yet!)

And one last piece of news - our mortgage has been approved, so as long as the survey is fine (and there shouldn’t be any problems, it’s a fairly new house and seems well cared-for), we’re off!