Catch up time again.....

On Thursday we headed off to the Westmorland Show, meeting some friends from our Home Ed group on the way. The weather was really good, it stayed dry and even had sunny spots until about 4pm and then the heavens opened. By that time we were almost ready to go anyway. It was a good, very tiring day. The show is huge with hundreds of trade stands, craft marquees, schools marquees, animal shows and pens and loads more. We decided to head straight for all the animals as that is what all the kids wanted to see so we had a good look around all the pens, saw some gorgeous Alpacas, Highland Cows (my favourite) and Eilidh got to watch the heavy horses which she was desperate to see. Ben and Dave went off to see the John Deere stand with all the tractors and machinery as Ben was asking all the way around if we could go. He has just been given a new 'Skidsteer' tractor type thing by his uncle and aunt and really wanted to see if John Deere made a real one. He was very excited to see that they had an exact same one at the show!!

Friday was our home ed group where the kids played while we attempted to organise what is happening in the next couple of months in our Science, Cookery and Art Groups.

We had two cottages to do on Saturday and then had a lazy afternoon before heading out in the evening to the Kendal Torchlight Procession,a carnival which goes all around the centre of Kendal. It was an extremely late night for the kids with a lot of waiting around but they enjoyed it all. The floats are mainly made up by local businesses, schools and groups and they all did a great job (not as good as the Burnham Carnival though, Frances and co will know what I mean!!)

We have had a quiet couple of days since then as Ben has been shattered and has come down with the sniffles again. He still manages to get up really early though. Both him and Eilidh have spent most of their time doing Hama bead pictures. I'm sure there is some educational value in there somewhere (art, design, maths, citizenship etc etc!!!!) Anyway they had fun doing them and they all look really good. They also managed to squeeze in some pages of workbooks and filling in their scrapbooks with bits and peices from the Westmorland show and making me play schools (ha, ha!!) Ben is actually starting to want to do 'work' things and his attention span seems to have got a lot better in the last few weeks.