Whew! or The Week in Review
Sep. 7th, 2007 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jespiralsWhat a week!
No.2 son & I went skating on Monday. 2 Months off the ice and it was a slow start, but got most of it back by the end of the hour & a half. Tuesday we walked about 6 miles on Hampstead Heath to meet some other Home Educators at Parliament Hill Fields. We took Poi to play with whilst we waited for everyone else to negotiate the thrills of getting across London during a Tube Strike. We were there about an hour early which gave me time to learn this...
http://www.poipoi.info/tuition/tuition-threebeatweave.php
...which left me grinning.
Got home and No.1 son was too knackered from school to go climbing with me :-(
so I made lemon chicken instead :-)
when in doubt ... cook
Wednesday was the usual morning Farmer's Market & groc run. I've been going to the same market for 5 years now and all the stall holders know me. I love knowing the people who produce the food I cook.
But considering it was my birthday I thought I needed to do something more so, as I had been invited, I went to this....
http://www.boutiquebarshow.com/Trade.htm
... and drank my way around all the stalls...mmmmm
Staggered home (with lots of free bottles!) and had a cup of tea and a bit of a rest because...
We were destined for mountains of gorgeous sushi that night.
A very different birthday for me as I usually prefer to spend the day on my own, preferably in a boat.
But except for the few hour sojourn into booze-land in the afternoon...
I had a lovely day with the most important men in my life.
Thursday was an adventure as I needed to head to Shoreditch to meet up with my future tutor at...
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/
Yup, taking the plunge and putting a piece of paper behind all the work I've been doing for the last 7 years on Anglo Saxon and Viking instruments.
The meeting went well and he likes my idea of focusing on a particular image, researching and building the instruments it depicts. So I now have an MA program and should have the paper in 2 years (part time).
No.1 son was feeling good after school today so CLIMBING!!!!
It was warm and a little damp on the wall, good for the muscles but not so great for the holds. 3rd time on a wall and I tried some routes rather than just grabbing the easiest/nearest hold. I couldn't complete a route on one colour clean but it certainly showed me the problems to be solved. & I tortured No.1 son by making him touch the top hold before I'd let him down on one ascent :-D ... which of course he then did to me on his next belay.
Worst of all we were playing hookey from his Parent's Back to School Night. But I had gone on my own last year (and hated it completely) and his Dad refused to go this year so..... I sent an appologetic email to his teachers before I went to bed.
Today has been another adventure. No.1 son has been invited to an international theater program but it is close on the heels of another school trip so it required multiple phone calls and plotting. No.2 son needed to be registered for this...
http://www.snaaponline.co.uk/
he's a home educated aspie in need of a social world... here's hoping this one works!
then we were off to...
http://www.hhec.org.uk/
with apples from the garden and a cooperative game to share.
Now No.1 son is home with a friend he met whilst in Vienna with the International Schools Boys Choir....
http://amis-online.org.uk/
... and I'm off on my bike to make copies and get my MA application in the post....
and tomorrow I'll be bending an elbow with webcowgirl
cheers!
No.2 son & I went skating on Monday. 2 Months off the ice and it was a slow start, but got most of it back by the end of the hour & a half. Tuesday we walked about 6 miles on Hampstead Heath to meet some other Home Educators at Parliament Hill Fields. We took Poi to play with whilst we waited for everyone else to negotiate the thrills of getting across London during a Tube Strike. We were there about an hour early which gave me time to learn this...
http://www.poipoi.info/tuition/tuition-threebeatweave.php
...which left me grinning.
Got home and No.1 son was too knackered from school to go climbing with me :-(
so I made lemon chicken instead :-)
when in doubt ... cook
Wednesday was the usual morning Farmer's Market & groc run. I've been going to the same market for 5 years now and all the stall holders know me. I love knowing the people who produce the food I cook.
But considering it was my birthday I thought I needed to do something more so, as I had been invited, I went to this....
http://www.boutiquebarshow.com/Trade.htm
... and drank my way around all the stalls...mmmmm
Staggered home (with lots of free bottles!) and had a cup of tea and a bit of a rest because...
We were destined for mountains of gorgeous sushi that night.
A very different birthday for me as I usually prefer to spend the day on my own, preferably in a boat.
But except for the few hour sojourn into booze-land in the afternoon...
I had a lovely day with the most important men in my life.
Thursday was an adventure as I needed to head to Shoreditch to meet up with my future tutor at...
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/
Yup, taking the plunge and putting a piece of paper behind all the work I've been doing for the last 7 years on Anglo Saxon and Viking instruments.
The meeting went well and he likes my idea of focusing on a particular image, researching and building the instruments it depicts. So I now have an MA program and should have the paper in 2 years (part time).
No.1 son was feeling good after school today so CLIMBING!!!!
It was warm and a little damp on the wall, good for the muscles but not so great for the holds. 3rd time on a wall and I tried some routes rather than just grabbing the easiest/nearest hold. I couldn't complete a route on one colour clean but it certainly showed me the problems to be solved. & I tortured No.1 son by making him touch the top hold before I'd let him down on one ascent :-D ... which of course he then did to me on his next belay.
Worst of all we were playing hookey from his Parent's Back to School Night. But I had gone on my own last year (and hated it completely) and his Dad refused to go this year so..... I sent an appologetic email to his teachers before I went to bed.
Today has been another adventure. No.1 son has been invited to an international theater program but it is close on the heels of another school trip so it required multiple phone calls and plotting. No.2 son needed to be registered for this...
http://www.snaaponline.co.uk/
he's a home educated aspie in need of a social world... here's hoping this one works!
then we were off to...
http://www.hhec.org.uk/
with apples from the garden and a cooperative game to share.
Now No.1 son is home with a friend he met whilst in Vienna with the International Schools Boys Choir....
http://amis-online.org.uk/
... and I'm off on my bike to make copies and get my MA application in the post....
and tomorrow I'll be bending an elbow with webcowgirl
cheers!
