- she gets a place at A starting in September & all is right with the universe (March 1st)
- We carry on HE and take iGCSEs at home (?how many, what period, how expensive)
- We carry on HE and do alternative qualifications at home (?what)
- We carry on HE and delay qualifications until 16 (?she’ll be at a huge disadvantage for A levels)
We take allocated place at dire school B (no way)- We do out in year application (January 2013 way be earliest we’re allowed to) to school C (love it, impossible to get in to), D (no separate sciences) or E (very mixed feelings about super-comp issues) (? we go on waiting lists & see what happens, I don’t really want her travelling at 11/12)
- We look at other out of area schools (?which ones)
- We wait a year or so (until she is 13/14)and apply in year to any of schools C/D/E (travelling won’t be such an issue, ? will it make it difficult to do GCSEs she wants as school won’t know her)
we look at independent schools (even with bursary we can’t afford it)
Sitting room mirror:
Ancient & uninspiring Ikea mirror, I’ve sanded it but it needs painting & something.
Front window blind:
We’re sleeping in their now & need something more able to keep draught, light & noise out. I have a wool mix army blanket which I have plans for.
This picture:
I started it while I was pregnant with Rufus, it looks a bit sad unfinished!
- Monday – onion pie (don’t ask – power cuts – 49p for huge bag of onions from Oxford Rd grocer)
- Tuesday – risotto (butternut squash)
- Wednesday – pizza
- Thursday – mushroom soup
- Friday – macaroni cheese
- Saturday – spuds & salad (inc. hummus)
- Sunday – cottage pie
Rufe’s play mat. It certainly doesn’t qualify as a quilt or even patchwork but it’s cheerful & soft & will hopefully prevent so many head-floor bumps.
I started this months & months ago. The patches are red cotton gingham from somewhere, denim from a skirt, Jane Churchill Cheeky Monkeys which I saved from when we lived in London & Claudia had a proper, beautiful, nursery, Alexander Henry Eagle Peak Trail (swoon) & Michael Miller Wild Blue Yonder. I backed it using an old Ikea curtain sandwiched around a mega cheap Ikea duvet.
From here using an old jumper of Claudia’s. I had to scrimp on the seam allowances as there was barely enough fabric but the ribbing meant no seaming the legs 
They’re lovely & quick & I want to make more!
eta: & so I did! Jumpers were £3:50 in the Primark sale.
- Sunday – pizza
- Monday – toad in the hole, roast spuds & minty peas
- Tuesday – noodles
- Wednesday – mushroom soup
- Thursday – spaghetti puttanesca
- Friday – pasta bake & garlic bread (freezer)
- Saturday – onion pie
Pizza dough (bread machine) makes four pizzas:
220ml water
500g plain flour
1 satchet yeast
4 tbs olive oil
1 tsp salt
toad in the hole:
2 packets veggie sausages
2 tbs oil
4 eggs
225g plain flour
250ml water
salt & pepper
mushroom soup:
butter
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
500g mushrooms
2 tbs plain flour
1l stock
small pot single cream
salt & pepper
puttanesca sauce:
olive oil
4 cloves garlic
1 chilli
2 cans tomatoes
1tbs capers
quite a lot of pitted black olives
S & P
right now?
Reading eggs 
(bit obsessive about not getting any wrong but at least that means lots of practice. Echolaling (!) lesson 45 though!)
Bob Books (still a bit dubious about words on paper rather than screen)
SM - Early Bird Kindergarten Standards Edition – he doesn’t love it but that’s okay 
RE work sheets (!) pen on paper (!!!) colouring (!!!!!)
What needs more work ? … fiction … sigh.
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