Malvern today · Wednesday August 8, 2007 by Ann
Home education group meetings seem to be thin on the ground during the school summer holidays, mostly because the venues are full of schooled children!
Today though, one of the other moms locally, has arranged fro a group of us to go to The Malvern Outdoor Adventure Centre
As it is the school holidays, my two nieces Madelaine and Claire are coming too. Lucy is thrilled to be spending time with her cousins, they are very close and have always been good friends.
I’ve to go off and pack a lunch for us shortly. The weather is looking quite good at the moment, so fingers crossed. Lucy and her cousins all had a go on the high wires course last year. This consisted of climbing to the top of a telegraph pole then standing up and jumping to catch a trapeze bar which was about a metre away-at the top of the pole!
Everyone was obviously harnessed and roped up for safety but it was still scary and although Lucy’s cousins managed to get onto the trapeze bar, Lucy did not, despite shinning up the telegraph pole pretty damn quickly. Lucy tells me she intends to remedy that today!
Lucy is especially pleased to be spending time with her cousins as she has recently given up the dance classes she has been doing with them. Lucy was in a dance company too and the classes and rehearsals took place on a Wednesday night in the town where Madelaine and Claire live. Wednesday night was given over to more than three hours of classes and rehearsals-a long night but at least it got it all in. Apparently this was difficult for the girls who have home work and school next day and so the sessions have
now been divided up and classes will now take place on one night and dance company rehearsals will take place on another. Lucy has decided that it is no longer possible for her to attend. Two evenings is too much commitment as she has so many other things on in her life, with choir and singing lessons and travelling to sing and gig with the band. Not to mention the camps and gatherings we attend. So from September Lucy intends to join the ballet classes at DanceXchange which is based at Birmingham Hippodrome. We did go earlier in the year, so that she could try the classes out. She will travel into Birmingham on a Saturday morning go the classes and return by herself. Lucy is quite an independent traveller these days
Some of you who read my blog when I posted before, will remember we were talking about setting up a debating group for the teenagers, but we unfortunately never got organised. However some good friends of ours have done so and the girls are both coming with me tonight to join the debates. I’ll let you know how it all turns out.
