Another Self Sufficient Day: Am I Redundant??

Emily's got this Tudor bug bad. By 8.30 this morning she was on the internet tracking down more portraits, and happily informed us that she was doing a book of them. And indeed she is - my only input into which so far has been helping her cover the scrapbook in wrapping paper, and occasionally writing down the odd spelling for her. As I type, she's busily creating a page each for Henry VIII, his wives and his children with their portraits, dates and facts about them.

Stooopidly, I tried sticking to the "plan" I had for today, which was some work on Tudor homes. Bad idea. When will I learn to go with the flow? Eventually I gave in gracefully, and Emily went back to her own plans in a suitably dignified manner!

We did some pages in the Letts English workbook this morning, and some maths word problems, and Emily read the last two chapters in The Maid, The Witch and The Cruel Queen to me. Love those Terry Deary fiction books. We read the four Egyptian Tales ones during the Egyptian project, and the four Tudor ones are fitting in nicely now.

Meanwhile, there's been some avid bird watching going on too. The birds have finally found our sooooper-doooper posh bird feeding station, and despite Merlin being camped out there nearly all day with his napkin round his neck, licking his whiskers, they seem well aware that he's rather dopey as cats go and have been largely ignoring him. Today we've seen coal tits, blue tits, greenfinches, dunnocks, wood pigeons, a chaffinch, blue tits, great tits, blackbirds and of course the starlings. And not one has ended up as a cat's suppper. Yet.