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Still falling over after Saturday at the zoo. If you can’t see the post-of-a-thousand-photos below this one, you’re not logged in.

Yesterday, being a recovery day, was pretty much a non-starter when it came to getting anything done. I thought about painting the woodwork in the powder-room - which would finish it off nicely, since it looks so much better now the walls are painted - but couldn’t be bothered. We might be painting the hall, stairs and landing a bit sooner than expected, though, since one of the dogs managed to remove a section of wallpaper during the night. I think it probably all came off in one piece and then she chewed it to bits. We were Not Pleased. Hence this evening, when I’d left George and Freddy at ju-jitsu, I went to the pet store and bought a crate. I had hoped not to need one, but I’ve been-there-done-that with chewy dogs before, and a crate is by far the best option. I bought one big enough for both of them to go in together and they’ve settled into it well and happily this evening.

Otherwise today…the older boys have done some studying. Barney and I have been having - and I really think this could only happen in a home-educating household - competitions to see who can solve quadratic equations the fastest. I never really “got” quadratic equations before - despite having collected A’s in both GCE maths and additional maths and doing some OU maths courses - but I found a fab tutorial on-line which made them no more difficult than filling in numbers, and I am pleased to say I’ve conquered them Barney, however, never had any trouble in the first place; they’re yet another bit of maths that he grasps intuitively.

Toby has been very, very cute - and more than occasionally challenging He likes to run - he’ll back up all the way across the kitchen to maximise the available distance His speech is also coming along and he’s making more effort to say specific sounds now. I’m getting called “Mummum” regularly now; given how long I’ve waited, I’ll settle for that Apart from his speech, he’s doing all the things on the leaflet the HV gave us last week - some of them he’s been doing for a long time (he started using an ordinary cup when he was about seven months old) and he’s doing some things that, according to the leaflet and the HV, children his age don’t do (like playing cooperatively with other children). So all is good

Tales from Earthsea tomorrow, courtesy of Schools Film Week