The Forty Seventh Republic! Happy Valentines and get some half term rest

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Gosh half term. What shall I do? Decisions decisions

No Valentines here as Mr Staff has lost all sense of the calendar

Brought my own chair

Im going to play it safe and sit cross legged in the corner by myself with no chair.

@TheHoneyBadger

Brought my own chair

Careful now.

I shall sit on the carpet, finger on my lips like a good girl

I have a chair, but not next to a table so it's fine.

To be honest I favour a gym ball over a chair.
Could you imagine if I brought that up over "there" they roll and everything, just rolling around all over the place collecting covid like it's 1999

Hope everyone is well. I've been crocheting and watching Saturday Kitchen today. Can't remember the last time I was so decadent with my time!

@DreamingofBrie

Hope everyone is well. I've been crocheting and watching Saturday Kitchen today. Can't remember the last time I was so decadent with my time!

What do you crochet? I love crochet. Not feeling well enough to do it at the moment but usually I'm a crochet fiend.

I made playdough, it's effin everywhere. Why does Pinterest never show the mess.

I'm sat under a blanket crocheting a pocket shawl to keep me warm in class. Bought myself a pastry which was undercooked so now feel sad :(

I've brought two chairs and a folding table and some popcorn.
I binge watched 6 episodes of a Netflix series about the unabomber last night so I'm really tired!!!

@HercwasanEnemyofEducation

I made playdough, it's effin everywhere. Why does Pinterest never show the mess.

Because pinterest feckin lies.

I have insta which I like to look at for ideas of sensory things to do at work or at home.

And then I laugh. A lot. And then also wonder why these mums can do this shit and I can't. But then also I pretty much know they take the perfect picture and then spend the rest of the day clearing up the utter shit show of a mess in their home when the activity lasted 30 seconds before it descended into warfare...

All going off on corona board so I am not reading papers today. Might crack with a blanket I am knitting. I call it knitting but it does have a ‘rustic’ look to it 😂

Ophelia Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr would be good for your DD. She will already know the traditional stories it is based on, so understanding won't be a problem.

My list of things I never missed about having small children definitely includes playdough.
Having said that, I, my DS and DD spent a lovely afternoon playing with playdough with eldest GD. That is, we sat around a table - those were the days - making a variety of lovely, elaborate cakes and she went round with a plate collecting them.
The look of bemusement on her face was quite something to behold.

@DriveInSaturday

Ophelia Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr would be good for your DD. She will already know the traditional stories it is based on, so understanding won't be a problem.

The £100 I've got in my basket so far is going to creep up today I know it! As I just said in the broom cupboard though, i don't eat food and get prescription calorie drinks so I'm saving tons on that !!

My friend's daughter recommended Marge in Charge which my goddaughter raced through.

Morning all. I've only just got up as I was awake half the night listening to next door attempt to sing karaoke . I'm not sure if they had extra people there or if it was just them (I suspect it was a party, I seem to recall this happening around this time of year a few times), but they were singing, badly and loudly, until about 3am. Luckily dd1 is nocturnal so it doesn't bother her, and dd2 can sleep through anything.
I had an extremely decadent Saturday where I did no school work, no housework, and actually barely spent any time with my family either. I had a really long walk along part of Hadrian's wall (it's local, I walked from my doorstep), and did arts and crafts for myself. It was lovely.

My dds both loved the rainbow fairies series at that age. They're awful, and incredibly formulaic, but easy to understand and there are about a million of the bloody things.

I'm now looking back through everything and actually finding a fair few of them second hand so that's good

I'm sure you have plenty of book ideas now but my dds liked Malorie Blackman's Betsy Bigalow and Girl Wonder books, the Claude series by Alex Smith, Agatha Parrot series and the Ottoline books. They are too old for your dd now but DD2 has just started reading the kingdom of silk books which are lovely.

Thanks Staff.

Ophelia I often buy second hand books as it would otherwise be too expensive to feed my book addiction. As I can't go to charity shops now, I look at second hand on eBay and Amazon.