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Nearly a week since my last post; I don’t think my poor blog has been so neglected since my internet connection was AWOL…

I’m rubbish at updates; I can never remember what we did. So, things I know about this week, in no particular order:

We had a playground-day with other home-educating families on Thursday. Scratchy had the day off (he had to take day before the end of the month) so it was far more relaxing than usual for me. There were a couple of families I’d never met before; it’s always good to meet a few new people. George and Freddy spent some time on the flying-fox ride, working out, along with some other children, what the optimum number of people on it at one time was – the goal being to make it go as fast and as far as possible. That’ll be physics covered for this week then

Yesterday we got out in the sun and planted some more veg. The only thing that we’ve planted so far that’s ready for harvesting is the rocket, which is doing very well. The baby carrots might be ready too; I don’t know because I can’t see them. The same applies to the broccoli. Should have thought about that when we were choosing what to plant

We phoned Barney last night; he sounds settled. It’s reassuring to hear him sounding so well. He’s looking forward to the summer holidays – he’s only got three more weeks of school left.

Toby’s been sick all week; running a fever and very, very clingy. He seems better now, but yesterday Jack started showing signs of it, and today George and I have been stricken. George is very stoic when he’s ill, which is a striking contrast to how he deals with far more minor troubles, many of which get the full-blown this-is-the-worst-life-ever treatment. He spent nearly all of today in bed, and so did I, though I did manage to get the dogs out for a walk for 40 minutes or so. I’ve been very tired all week, perhaps because I was coming down with this; I fell asleep in the car on the way home from Cub Camp last Sunday, which should probably have been a warning that I needed to take it easy for a few days – or maybe I got sick because I was tired, rather than the other way about. Either way, it’s been a difficult week. Maybe next week will be better and I’ll be able to write something cheerier.