Leith Hill

Friday dawned as a sad day for the boys as they were extremely worried about Milo and his operation.  J convinced that he was going to die and A struggling to hide his worry :-( Milo got a good game of fetch and cuddles on Thursday night however. It didn't help that when I returned from the hairdressers with no Milo J was definitely sure he had died, I rang the vet for an update and he was still in surgery.

Finally at around 6pm we went to collect him (just a note to myself at this point for future reference that Js behaviour is horrific :-)) poor Milo like a drunken sailor staggering about crashing into doors with his lampshade on!! I got him a blowup comfy collar the next day as he looked so sad!!

Saturday we climbed Leith Hill in Surrey for a picnic. Daddy was out all day at a stag do so gaba and pops took us on a fine picnic! It included wine! Nice!

We climbed to the top of the tower and were at the highest point in southern england, higher than all those high buildings in London!!

Folly on the Hill

A slow start to the week with a trip to play at a friends house on Monday, followed by a home day yesterday as the weather and general tiredness was making the boys grouchy.

Milo had a visit to the vets to book him in for his operation on Friday, so Gaba came round to look after the troops and stayed a while to keep the peace!!! An interesting task of putting the sun tent together that was brought back from NZ at the beginning of the year :-)

We made plans for today and decided upon a walk around Eartham woods and a picnic. This was all going according to plan until we were driving at the back of Slindon and boys spotted a Folly on top of the hill in the distance. Que Google maps and the car map book and our plans changed to go and find the Folly!!

Beautiful walk (if not long!!) through old woodlands and along winding paths, the boys and Milo had great time and saw and learnt about new things along the way.

Mega tree roots

Milo enjoying himself (he had started to slow down a bit by this point!!)

 Boys and Gaba

Cut out in the Woods

Snakes log pile house (Gruffalo)

Tree hugging

more tree hugging

Branch hugging!

Hare Bells

Holly Hocks

THE FOLLY!!

http://www.odd-stuff.info/follies/nore.htm

Tomorrow we are going to a picnic for "Learn Nothing Day"  with fellow unschoolers (basically schooled children get weeks and weeks off from learning, so it is only fair that unschooled children get a day where they don't learn) A has already voiced his opinion of such a ridiculous day as he likes to learn and doesn't want to not find things out for a whole day!!!!! :-)

Another busy week last week.....we went on an open top bus from Devils Dyke down to Brighton! Very exciting for boys! When we got back to the Dyke we went exploring and looked for the old train and cable car lift. There was once an victorian fairground up there and animals!  We also discovered an old building that after much research was used to store test bombs for WW2. Still to discover the mott and bailey above Edburton but we will!!

More swimming and A is finally getting the hang of it again and can swim underwater :-) J is happy floating about and H has overcome his fear and is quite good at it!!

We had a meet up at Goring Gap with some friends. ..boys had a great time off in the woods exploring etc.

Uppark again with Gaba. We did meet some friends there but only for a short time as we spent so long in the house!!

Fund raising event on Sat where A got his face painted as a zombie.

Birthdays. ....

I have just realised that this post didn't upload and somehow lost all the many words that were also here :-(

A on his new keyboard

The 3 monsters on As birthday visit to The Natural History Museum

Loonies in the rain

Master H with his pot that he won on the tombola

The Week So Far....

Fishers Farm on Monday to mainly play in the splash attack. It wasn't as busy there as it has been recently and so we managed some pretty empty soft play!

We went swimming again on Tuesday, H probably only took 20mins to stop crying, he loved the rapid waters and then spent ages flinging himself in the water shouting random things like 'helicopter'!!

Had a shaving foam sensory play in the tuff spot which evolved into making the slide as slippery as possible to slide down at high speed! I also got bitten by some pesky insect on tuesday afternoon in the woods and on Wednesday my knee grew to twice the size and was excrutiatingly painful. Its still a bit swollen today but not as sore!

A was a super help yesterday as due to the high quanities of piriton I had I fell asleep on the sofa. He sorted the smalls out with things to do, drinks and some snacks. A nice change as the rest of the week he has been quite silly and rude.

We had a lovely walk yesterday and did some Gruffalo crafts when we came home. A found some giant feathers on our walk and wanted to try writing with them with paint. Just like a quill! He then did some writing hieroglyphic style i.e downwards and drew some pictures to tell me things instead of writing words, hieroglyphics again and those clever Egyptians!!  

This morning both boys came downstairs and wanted to do some maths workbooks. We haven't done this for quite a while and J has never before sat down to do any sort of 'work'.
They spent about 40mins going through them, J declaring that he would do it his way and not how the words told him. To clarify that, he did do what it asked but not in the same order or way. I'm quite glad he isn't going to be going to school as I feel he would struggle with being dictated to, told to do something a certain way and that the way he was doing it (even with the same outcome) was wrong. I also think tempers would flare!!
On the subject of school I believe from various posts on Facebook yesterday that it was settling in days (or whatever they are called) for all those little people due to start school. J would have been among them.....I'm not sure how he would have coped :-(

Super Mechanic is mending the back axle on the car today so we are just mooching about doing Lego, taking Milo out and waiting for the shopping to be delivered.