I'm still here! · Thursday July 19, 2007 by june
At least until next week.
I’m sorry that I haven’t managed to post very often. Since the children’s hard drive died everyone has been using my computer, and I have been having to fight for computer time.
We have managed to put the children’s hard drive into this computer, so hopefully I can organise everyone to back up their files and then get around to fixing their computer. I’m not sure it is actually the hard drive, and I’m hoping that we might get away with re-installing Windows – it’s worth a try, before we spend money on a new hard drive.
James is in a really relaxed mood at the moment, he has been spending most of his days playing music, doing craft activities, and listening to story tapes. He goes to St John’s Cadets, and is away today, on duty with them at a big local event.
Unfortunately Liz has had a really nasty summer cold and cough. Last week was mainly dealing with her feeling so ill. She is much better now, but still coughing a little.
We spent last weekend at a folk festival. The Folk group that the children attend took part – they all got to play, and Liz did some clog dancing. Lots of good music – and an enjoyable weekend – but it all seemed to be over far too quickly, and life moved on.
We managed to go to the Home Ed group on Monday, which went well. Tuesday, I had to go shopping to organise some things for Tom who had a day doing canoing and team building skills on Wednesday. Wednesday was a bit of a write off at home – but as long as those kinds of days are few and far between I don’t worry too much. We did play some music, as we are busy learning lots of new tunes at the moment, and baked some blueberry and banana muffins.
That brings us to today. There is just Liz and me here today – we’ll have to get used to it being like this from September. We went to town to buy fruit and veg from a cheap stall, but town was really busy and most of the good stuff had already gone. On our way home we bought some food for a picnic – much more than we needed for just the two of us. Then we made up the picnic and went down to the beach to eat it – the weather was very hot by then. Liz played in the water, which was by far the best place to be in that heat. Now I need to organise myself to take her to her flute lesson.
