38: A nice relaxing day at home, cuddled up with The Boy reading while I crochet.
39: A finished blanket for my friend's little boy. My husband bought me a crochet book for Christmas and this was my first opportunity to try out some of the different granny square designs.
40: During the afternoon break, I was able to pop across to The Boy's pop-up bakery that he and his classmates were running. It was so sweet to see them all standing behind their stalls, politely enquiring what the customers would like, using tongs to put them in paper bags that they'd decorated themselves, and then counting out the change. The Boy was responsible for giving me my change, here he is working out which coin he's got in his hand.
41: The day started with an amazingly beautiful sunrise. And then it poured. All day. Enough now.
42: In between cooking the tortillas for tomorrow's cafe, I phoned mum and suggested we pop out for lunch. We went to a local pub-restaurant with a gorgeous view over the Bristol Channel; what a glorious day!
43: I don't normally post anything to do with school but I'm very proud of my class today. After a term of very hard work on their Global Gourmet topic, they had finished their table decorations (a Mayan temple and an Italian spaghetti fountain), made salsa and tortillas for 200 guests, written information leaflets about their chosen countries, and were ready to serve all their mums and dads during the hour long cafe that they put on. I'm not quite sure that the teachers needed to be there, the children ran the whole thing themselves and were blinding stars.
44: As if the garden hadn't suffered enough from Storm Imogen's temper-tantrum the other night (seven fence panels down or damaged, and the pergola leaning at a worrying angle), this morning I woke up to find three fence panels leaning the other way into next door's garden. And as my husband had woken up with a stomach bug, I had to make a frantic phonecall to the local emergency repairman known as Dad. I currently have two fence panels along the 70ft length of my garden, after he and The Boy ripped the broken ones down and piled them up. I despair at the weather.
Jo Laybourn says
Absolutely stunning view across the Bristol Channel! Gorgeous! The boy looks so pleased with himself in the fence photo!
Mary @ Over 40 and a Mum to zone says
What a nightmare with the fence panels. Sounds like your class did you proud and the sunset and lunchtime views are just stunning.
Sarah MumofThree World says
The weather has been horrendous, hasn't it? I often put in emergency calls to my dad too!
It must have been lovely to have the boy serve you and count out your change and what a fantastic achievement for your class!
Stunning sky photos too this week.
Kara says
Wow, you have a huge garden – thank goodness for parents to help us out. Love the photo of Bristol Channel
Susan Mann says
What a nightmare about the fencing panels. Gorgeous sunset. And love the blanket xx
Louise (Little Hearts, Big Love) says
What a gorgeous view across the Bristol Channel and that sunrise is just beautiful. Love the crochet blanket too. Sorry to hear about your fence taking a battering from Storm Imogen – we also have a few fence panels that need replacing.
76sunflowers says
So lovely to hear great things about education at the moment! Keep up the good work π
Lauren (@laurenbigeejit) says
Love his face in that last one!
Emma T says
Damn wind. It's been a pain this year. I remember my mum losing a lot of fence panels like that over the years…until she paid a fortune for those single overlapping upright ones that don't go anywhere. Our 14 ft trampoline is currently upside down and wrecked after winds on new year's eve.
Nice shop idea your school do. More should do that.
clare AKA Emmy's Mummy says
I'm blooming loving that blanket – I picked up a beginners set but just can't seem to get passed a row, I'm getting so confused when I need to go back and do the second. I will master though
jenny paulin says
our garden fence has had a battering from the windy weather – it is still up but i don't think it will last another storm!
That view across the Bristol channel is just amazing – wow! Nice to see some blue skies.
your crochet blanket looks lovely.
Well done to the boy on his pop up bakery – such a sweet idea and a great way to learn about money x
Shell Louise says
Love the spaghetti fountain and that blanket is gorgeous π
Kirsty Hijacked By Twins says
My emergency call out man is also my dad! Sorry to hear about all of the damage left by the storm. Your blue blanket is lovely. Hope you have a great half term week x
Amy @ Very Much So... says
The photo of the view across the Bristol Channel is gorgeous and the blanket is lovely! We've lost a couple of fence panels in our garden as well due to the crazy weather recently x
Notmyyearoff says
Love the Italian spaghetti fountain, how cool is that! The blanket is so pretty. Hope your friend loves it!
Sara (@mumturnedmom) says
Sorry to hear about the storm, what a pain π Gorgeous sunrise and that view across the Bristol Channel is stunning. Love the blanket and it sounds like your students did an awesome job x
Em Gordon says
That is a beautiful blanket, I love the colours. I am blown away at that sunrise and the blue skies with the clouds. Wow. π
Elaine Livingstone says
A handy repair man to have on speed dial. What a shame about the panels.
Love the idea of the mental maths working out the change and raising funds at the same time.
What a great project to have worked on with your class, and how nice it went so well.
Carolynne @ Mummy Endeavours says
Love the pic of the boy reading. It's wonderful to see kids read. Great school project and hope you got the fence sorted! It's always one thing after the other! x