sigh, 2 consecutive dry days would be so lovely!
just so I can get the little tent totally dry and thus in a state to be safely taken down! It’s not a lot to ask really is it? I mean, it is SUMMER! At this rate, come September wehn I go away for the weekend (without child….. how wierd is that then?) I’ll just take it down, throw it still damp in the car and re-pitch it at the other end of the journey 
Unless, of course, Duke’s numbers come up at some point in the meantime in which case I’ll buy a nice new little tent without the damned silly design fault on the windows that makes them leak in anything more than a gentle shower 
Anyway. Yesterday was mainly spent recovering from the Sleepover. She needed to have Mummy in sight at all times and preferably reading to her so there was a lot of story time going on, with a few sneaky bits of "learning stuff" sidled in there for variety! There was a good chunk of DS-ing too.
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And then I had a long conversation on the phone with the home ed mum from round the corner. She is starting up a group locally and is under the rather misguided impression taht I’m in it with her. This is despite the fact that I’ve said from the start that Aprilia doesn’t really enjoy big groups, is blissfully happy with just meeting up with one or two other families at a playbarn and that I am not in for subsidising every bugger else by joining groups where big families pay the same admission as single child families (sorry, just a personal bugbear of mine, I used to go to a group where everyone but me had LOTS of kids, and whilst I have nothing against big families I don’t think it’s fair that Aprilia only got 1 go at each craft or activity for my £3 when every other mother’s £3 got them anything up to 7 or 8 crafts or whatever) Her plan is to hire a hall locally, charge £3:50 per family and have absolutely no planned activities, just a nice big space for the kids to run round in whilst the mothers drink coffee at one corner of the room. She’s doing it because her child has no friends and the kids in the street are nasty and, being autonomous, she doesn’t think that structured HE groups are the way to go. I said we wouldn’t be interested, especially considering that £3:50 gets us all morning at a play barn with plenty of interesting things for her to do and she has a very good social life courtesy of the kids in the street, Brownies and Kung Fu. She said "oh well, see how you go after the first time then". Did I miss something? Which bit of not interested is it that says "but we will come anyway"? Grrrr!
I could have written your ranty paragraph!
Except mine also didn’t drink the squash and biscuits provided. Usually because the bunfight was too much for her to even want to see if there was anything she liked.
Comment by michelle — August 22, 2008 @ 7:55 am
so glad it’s not just me! Adn Aprilia never drank their squash either, cos it was always the cheapest sugar free junk in the shop which I won’t let her drink!
Still waiting for the dry weather too……. in fact it’s wetter than ever here…… someone somewhere must really hate me!
Comment by Administrator — August 22, 2008 @ 9:34 am
Can sympathise with your rant about prices - I don’t really see how difficult it would be to charge e.g. £1 per person, and I’ve brought it up before at our group.
I was running into the converse problem about a year ago at our group, where they were getting in so many OUTSIDE activities that needed paying for as extras, that if I wanted mine to join in then I’d be paying an extra £12 or so every other week. (Not letting them join in seemed a bit unfair too, so we just missed a lot of weeks.) And being told by a woman with one child that £3 was very reasonable for so-and-so didn’t really help. Thankfully the excess enthusiasm has died down again!
Comment by Alison — August 27, 2008 @ 12:10 pm