A black and white cat sinking his teeth into a shiny necklace.
My cat would like to review your fidget pendant. Very dangly and pleasing to attack. Thankfully robust enough to withstand cat teeth.
A very beautiful black labrador stretched out asleep on a sofa
Oh to be a sleeping labrador
I am reminded of my ex-boss drumming into us that if our research results were very interesting they were probably wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'd like to burn GCSEs to the ground and start again with something new.
Helped the eldest struggle through a descriptive writing exercise for GCSE English Language. Eldest is genuinely a very good writer. Everything in them bristles at English Language GCSE because it isn't about writing well, it's about how much description and punctuation you can throw in.
Welcome to my brain where a conversation about automatic Vs manual cars has had me singing 1 2 Step by Ciara and Missy Elliot for the past hour and a half.
Did my first ever parkrun in 2013 and today I finally ticked off my 50th. Might have been one or two volunteers in between those that kept me busy. Nice to be a runner and a volunteer now though.
How small are these pots though? And is there anywhere left for the cat to sit?
It's a cat, yawning
Conversations with a 15 year old: "Wait, Tony Hawk is a real person?"
"Yes, what did you think he was?"
"Video game character".
A camellia plant in bloom
Also my camellia, which was basically dead, has been revived following an intervention from gardeners and a feeding regime by me. It actually flowered this year! Maybe it will grow a bit too.
A dwarf rhodendron in flower
Big yellow tulip
Purple flower and a growing hollyhock
Quite excited to see things I planted actually seem to be growing and not instant dying. Admittedly they were well established when I planted them, but never underestimate my ability to kill a plant.
Literally just stopped walking so I could properly contemplate the implications of this.
I have read this out to my kids and resulted in a lot of laughs and a wistful "I wish my school was like that" from the youngest.
The gentrification of SE London continues.
It's meant to be free of animal products!
Two large 50 litre bags of garden much ripped open and scattered around.
So it turns out leaving your unopened bags of mulch outside is a bad idea. I'm guessing the foxes were big fans. This will be a fun clean up job.
A black & white cat lounges on green grass
A black and white cat stands on the raised wooden edge of a flower bed looking at the flowers
I have supervision for my gardening efforts
Thankfully the guinea pig remains undiscovered and hopefully lies under the big heavy pond container so I'm unlikely to come across them. Worms though, I guess they don't mind clay soil?
Slowly getting the plants I bought on Sunday into the ground. I have been amazed by the number of worms I keep disturbing. My beds are a worm hotspot, I'm doing my best to dig around them. Also realised at one point while staring at worms that I couldn't remember where we buried the guinea pig.
Get the pizza! You deserve it.
I did decide after our last one that I wouldn't bother seeing all the teachers again as it did get quite repetitive.
At the eldest's school they actually mainly spoke to them rather than the parent and that was quite nice. Felt a bit more like a little feedback session you'd get at work. They usually had a couple of suggestions for areas to work on and a lot of praise.
Is it in person? If so, everyone will run over, it will be chaos and your aim is to survive. If it's online, there'll be just enough time for them to give you the bare minimum. If your child is relatively rule abiding and studious you will learn nothing very worthwhile.
Although I did get compliments on my hellebore today.
I also got a lot of plants for the regular and very empty bed. We have clay soil. Not sure anything I bought actually likes clay soil. When you try and search for stuff that likes clay it gets depressing. I'm not very good at this gardening lark.
Bought and planted plants for the new little raised beds in our garden. Keep staring out the door at them as if they are going to grown in front of my eyes. Or die. Dying is probably more likely tbh.
Also Bakugen had the derpiest face and I loved him. 10/10 would try and pet.
I'm actually doing this at home with the youngest. Ours had the benefit of sofas, pizza and being free to laugh very loudly when required. They were really good fun, turtles just aren't scary though.
I'd like to start with a discussion about why, now we make kids stay in education until 18, we still think we need exams at 16 and 18 and why so many of them?