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Oops, I forgot to publish this after I wrote it. But with the magic of Wordpress, you’ll never know

I keep writing blog-posts. Unfortunately I mostly only write them in my head, so here’s another random-stuff-we’ve-been-doing post.

Lots and lots of laundry, as I finally made it through all the kids’ clothes. Somehow Toby has only two pairs of trousers which fit. I also went through all the coats to see what would fit through the winter, and found some hats shaped like animal heads, which I’d long forgotten about - Toby was thrilled with these, and when we dug out the giraffe-head one, he was absolutely speechless with delight. When he’s not speechless, he’s often very amusing. He pointed to a picture and told me, “Look!”, and when I replied, “Yes, a sun!”, he gave me a scathing look and said “It’s not a sun! It’s a planet!”

Louie continues to change every day. He rolled over both ways a few days ago, though hasn’t repeated it - but then he spends most of his time either in someone’s arms or tucked up close beside me, so he doesn’t have much opportunity. He likes it when Barney talks to him, and is doing lots of “talking” himself, but when George is playing with him, Louie likes to be sung to. Mika is a particular hit

One of the pcs in the dining-room died - right after we’d finally bought a new monitor for it. Looks like Scratchy and the boys will be rebuilding that then.

And I’ve been talking to the Open University - but for Barney, not me. A few weeks ago we asked if Barney could take one of their maths short courses. He’s already worked his way through the course textbook, but he wants to do it “officially”, with the end-of-course assessment etc. The first person I spoke to said they would never allow someone as young as him to take a maths course, and when I informed her that he had a friend who’d taken the same course at about age ten, she just kept repeating “I find that very hard to believe” - but when she put me through to the right person, that person was very positive. We’ve heard back from them now, and they think it will all be fine - they just want a reference (which, because they want someone involved in the education system, is coming from the exams officer at the school where he sat his French GCSE, rather than my friend who knows him very well and used to be an OU maths tutor, but anyway…) and they want him to come in for a chat - that’s been arranged for the end of this month. I really hope it’s all okay, because apart from OU materials being much better than any other textbooks I’ve seen, they also might allow him on one of the Level 2 French courses - we’d assumed that wouldn’t be at all possible because there are residential schools involved, but the woman we spoke to said they might be able to arrange something for him - which would solve the problem of where-to-go-next-in-French