Month: April 2020

Woodland Skills Heading out of the house for an hour at a time doesn’t really lend itself to rambling. We’re quite lucky in having a bit of wildlife on our doorstep with the fields and woodlands which lie between our home and the M6 but even that isn’t entirely wild. There are a few reminders…

Lego Champion! I can get a bit competitive at times and for some reason, Rachel has had the effrontery, the temerity indeed to imply I might lose a Lego Challenge against the kids! Gauntlet duly picked up, we all set off making a sci-fi cloning station and the best design will be chosen anonymously via…

What’s the inflatable pizza for? It’s with good reason that Adam is stood looking at a giant inflatable pizza slice, with a puzzled look on his face. It’s his 10th birthday after all and although he did say he’d prefer surprises, I’m not sure his thinking was quite so abstract. There is method behind our…

Daddys Day 42! It doesn’t look like a very high number when you write it down but that’s the number of years I’ve been on this planet. 15,330 days! Now that looks like quite a high number doesn’t it. Its only when you see it as 367,920 hours on planet Earth that you start to…

Emz Fest So, you’ve got style. You’ve got rhythm. You’ve got attitude. Just what do you get for the little girl who has all of that going on already, for her Birthday during a global Lockdown? Well, you get her, her very own festival that’s what! Rachel, has been working hard behind the scenes to…

Home-Schooling for Dogs We’ve not had a lot of success training Ember, our Cockerpoo and given none of us can leave the house at the moment, it seems like a decent time to do some much-needed and long-overdue puppy-training. Aside from getting her to walk nicely bedside me during her initial training last year, I…

Working from home (..and garden) Of the privations being asked of the nation during Lockdown, I have to say I really like the working-from-home one. I’m that little bit more productive, am far more relaxed and possibly more organised than I would be at the office. I’m lucky that I have the sort of job…

Emily’s Bounce-a-thon With great boredom comes great opportunity and Rachel has given Emily a challenge. She spends a lot of time of the trampoline but never a full hour and so, her challenge, should she choose to accept it, is to bounce for a full hour and if she thinks she can do it, Rachel…

Livin La Vida Lockdown Well, I think it’s fair to say as a nation we would be stuffed without our NHS staff, utilities workers and teachers. If lockdown has taught us anything it is that setting a challenging and inspiring curriculum for kids aged 9 and 7 is (eventually) fairly straightforward however, actually following it…