I am not above bribary you know!
She has worked hard today, on the understanding that everything was "worth" a certain amount of Harry read to her! Maybe not a great inspirational tool but as what matters just now is that we keep the momentum going with the reading I’ll stoop as low as it takes! Consequently she did a whole Starter Stile phonics book (mainly "or", "ar" and "ir" sounds) and a few other odd bits.
There has been domesticity today too. Both in the production of Snickerdoodles and Chocolate Oaties and also in the excavation of Duke’s side of the bed in order to rescue all the used towels. I may have mentioned his penchant for discarding soggy towels on the floor before. I really ought to just give up and make regular patrols of his favourite drop off points rather than wait until we run out and ahve to do 5 loads!
We nearly got a rotavator of EBay but got pipped at the post which has messed up the weekend fairly seriously. You see, Duke’s nephew-in-law was supposed to be sorting out a rotavator for us to borrow but despite Duke phoning him at various different times of day and night for the past 3 weeks he’s never in adn I suspect that the messages don’t get passed on. We aren’t *really* part of their family, what with us having moved away from the immediate area and me upsetting the lot of them by home educating (there’s 2 teachers and a classroom assistant in the family….) so although they would go running to any of the "in" family to help them out in seconds, we are definitely the poor second (third, maybe even fourth, after the cat, assorted clubs and societies and the Great God of the School System)
So the plan for Duke to rotavate the back garden this weekend is therefore off. Which means I can’t get on with any planting, and it needs doing SOON before it’s just too late, and I had hoped to plant into the ground this year, not tubs but daren’t if there’s a chance of said machine being available any time soon. Okay, so in the grander scheme of things it’s all very petty but bloody anoying non the less.
And the big news is that I’ve been accepted as a helper on an international Guiding camp in August and Aprilia is being allowed into the "Brownie sub-camp" even though it’s really for more local units! She’s in high orbit with excitement about that, especially as it has meant Camp Uniform and the news that she will get a special Camp Teeshirt and Necker whilst she’s there! AND she will do her Brownie Camp Badge! How much excitement can one gal take!
