Profound insight by Springy

Springy: "This spoon would be good for poor people as it has a hole in it, so if they didn't have food it wouldn't matter..."

Roman Palace

Today we went to the Fishbourne Roman Palace and Springy joined the Roman Army. She had to learn archery, slingshot, sword, spear and took part in a drill. She also ate Roman style food and made a poultice in her brief Roman medicine lesson. She rode a Roman horse (wooden but with a Roman soldier hat) and we played 9-...Man Morris. She even got paid her day's coinage and became a Roman citizen!

Walks in the Mist

Today we went on 2 walks down the farm path (including one this evening with the torch - we even had "pirate" mist). We also made purple almondoil/lavender essential oil soap, discussed hibernation, did some sorting out and played with the Sylvanian families amongst other things.

RIP Frazzle

Our beloved Frizzle-feathered Pekin Bantam - Frazzle - died. We're really going to miss her. She would follow us around, come up to the back door and would sometimes wander into the kitchen on her quest for maize. When we first got her she would follow Springy all over the garden...

Today our beautiful Sarah guineapig passed away. Springy and I both keeping crying because we will miss her very much. I knew last night that today would be her last and she went this morning. We've buried her in the front garden under the comfrey and by the roses. Our other guineapig Rose is going to need a lot more cuddles now that she on her own without her sister.

Lovely blog with bee feature

http://naturenest.wordpress.com/category/animals/bees/

and this:

http://web.me.com/meaningfulmathbooks1/Site/Lower_School_Math.html

and this article:
http://opencreativity.open.ac.uk/assets/pdf/strathclyde/Learning%20to%20think%20in%20Steiner.pdf

And this on rainbow writing:

http://faeriedust2001.blogspot.com/2005/11/rainbow-sentences.html

Writing workshop

Springy had a writing workshop at the library today. It was quite funny to see her roll her eyes at the boys who were not listening. She was the only girl there so I wasn't sure if she wanted to stay or whether the subject (a book she hadn't read called beast Quest) was of interest. However, she enjoyed it all and wrote a great amount of detail.

We had a bedtime story last night about a boy and his mud horse. It was from the Enki Education curriculum but I'm certain I've seen the story elsewhere too.

I'm reading a Robert Holdstock book at the moment and want to make another foray into Middle Earth to read The Hobbit. I want some sunshine days to happen next week. I'd like to hire a Rug Doctor to clean our carpets and for that I need good weather. I also want to wash all the bedding and towels again at a 60 deg C wash.

I want to tidy up the garden, mow the lawn and tidy up our lounge so that we can access the blackboard again. I wish I could work out how to re-arrange our home to make it easier to organise everything.

Springy painted a shoebox tonight and decorated it. I think it's meant to be a new room for her Sylvanians or her dollshouse folk.