I've heard from the girls! · Saturday August 4, 2007 by Ann
Alice and Lucy rang me from The Big Green Gathering this morning.
They are having a fabulous time. Alice says there is vegan food stalls everywhere and she is having such a good time, trying them all out. It makes such a change for her to have real choices in meals.
Lucy says she has been doing similar, but that she’ll be eating food that I sent today to save money.
They both have bought a dress each-but have managed to resist buying any more clothes -so far!
Alice said that she keeps bumping into people that they know everywhere and Lucy told me about all of her crowd of HE friends who have gone to the festival too.
The music is apparently great and they are enjoying the ambiance and the opportunities in the healing area etc.
The lads from the band Lucy sings with are also there but haven’t taken their instruments, but hope to be able to use the piano in the cafe area and perform at some point, just for the fun of it.
Hope someone records it for me to watch if they do!
They have a nice place to camp and the weather has been good so far, with just a little rain on the first full day. Now that will make a change from all of the other camps we have been on this year!
Although I wasn’t worried about them, it is good to actually hear from them that all is well.
Tom and I are continuing with the decluttering, we have a few things to make available on Freecycle and plenty of things to go to the charity shop.
Clearing the space in the cupboard under the stairs and storing the HE group equipment there, has meant that there is space on shelves elsewhere to rearrange stuff and clear some space and tidy up downstairs.
This is one of the few downsides of home education-we have so much ‘stuff’!! We have shelves in as many places as we can think of putting them and they are all full!
I’m going to move some of the ‘Philosophy Now’, ‘Scientific American’ and ‘New Scientist’ Magazines, that are stored in box files from the shelves in the dining room, up to the shelves above the stairs(where there is already a shelf or two full of them already-I can get Tom to declutter books sometimes but not these magazines!). Then I can put the craft baskets up onto the shelves and off the floor. I might also be able to move some stuff off the table again-seeing the dining table top is always a rarity at our house-and so always makes me feel good when it is clear!
As a family, we have taken to having an open house party for HE friends on New Years Eve and that always makes us clear the dining table! Some HE friends are coming back from Florida, where they now live, for a holiday-they will die of shock if they come in and can see the table top!
