Playdate

At least the cat has come back........

Open Evening at Possible Secondary School

Tonight I took Jamie along to the open evening at the 'other' school.  On the road on which we live, there are two secondary schools; opposite each other at the end of the road.  Our house backs onto one.  Tonight we visited the other.

I can't say we were impressed.  We asked for a tour and the young chap who took us around had only been there a few weeks, so wasn't exactly sure himself where everything was.  Also, we were joined by one of Jamie's pals parents, and they said it had not changed since they attended.  They are about my age....

Recently I have worked at the other (on our side of the road) school, and this one felt very spread out in comparison.  Thinking the worse, there were lots of places were a child could get lost / picked on / disappear.

While we were there, Jamie had his photo taken with The League Two Championship Trophy which Lincoln City Football Club won this year.  Daddy, Uncle Dean and Auntie Chrissie were impressed.  Me and Jamie., not so. Although it probably was the highlight of the tour!!

After the kiddies had gone to bed.....

…..it was time for the cocktails.  Mummies deserve it!!  xx

Someone mention Macbeth????

Celebrate!!

Just like the queen, mummy had two birthdays this year.  January was too cold to have a proper party so we invited everyone to celebrate the big one in July!!  We had family and friends and I think it went down really well.  The weather was nice and warm so we could all sit outside.  We had karaoke and a bouncy castle.  We had children of different age groups so no-one didn't have anyone to play with and we had a little threesome develop.  One Happy Mummy xx

Piano Report - July 2019

Jamie is a well behaved and polite pupil.  I can tell he loves playing the piano and coming to his lessons.  It is wonderful to have such a motivated pupil with such eagerness for music and learning new things.  He is completely focused on the task in hand and will always ask is he doesn't understand anything. His progress has been excellent with the Grade 1 syllabus so far and he has put great effort into the pieces and also his scales . He has developed a much more controlled hand position this year. Jamie’s note recognition skills are improving and he has an excellent sense of rhythm. I have no doubt he will be ready to sit this exam and pass in November if he continues to put the work in. At this stage in his studies I would expect him to practice for 5 days per week for 20 minutes per day. He performed brilliantly and with confidence at the music evening last month.

A very pleasing report for Jamie. I look forward to teaching Jamie next term.

Don't Make Me Give It Back!!

As I mentioned, mine had a bit of a bump.  Not my fault at all!  Someone reversed into it and bashed all the side door and back panel.  This is nice though.....but I have to give it back today and I don't want to.  Me and Jamie have got used to the Blue Tooth.....

Dan DTM at Birmingham

As soon as this tour was announced Jamie wanted tickets.  Dan DTM has always been his favourite youtuber (see previous Book Day photos).  As it was in Birmingham we decided to go for the day, but not to stay over.  I said I would be happy if we were home before midnight - and we were - just!  As my car had had a little bump in the week (not my fault) we had a brand new Vauxhall Astra (red).  I was a little puzzled as there was no CD player.  I had to quickly learn how to use my Bluetooth!

Before we went to the Arena, we manged to get a visit in to thinktank - Birmingham's Science Museum  www.birminghammuseums.org.uk  which had loads of interesting exhibits and even a Planetarium where we watched 'Destination Space'.

As for Dan, I was glad we just decided to come home; although it did take us nearly an hour to get out of the car park - luckily daddy had packed a lot of food!   There was queuing for everything; another long wait to get in, queuing for food and merchandise.  When we arrived I noticed a lot of the children were dressed in one of three colours (Yellow / Red / Blue) and the merchandise was in each of the three colours.  What daddy had failed to read on the tickets was that each child was to be placed in one of the teams to support throughout the 'contest'.  I managed to ask someone who said we were the Red team (Talonian tribe) and luckily Jamie had his Red Fortnight T Shirt on.  The event itself was a little disappointing (as well as taking your money at every corner).  Children were picked out of the crowd to do battle in a game that wasn't Minecraft (for what Dan is famous for) in order to save the world - I think.  We didn't have to buy a T shirt but I did end up getting Jamie a pug.....

I know Jamie loved it!!!

Jamie with some of his Cuties.....

The big one is Totoro : Totoro is the title tetartagonist and forest spirit that lives in the largest camphor tree in a small village. He's featured in Studio Ghibli's film My Neighbor Totoro, as well as its sequel, Mei and the Kittenbus.