I must apologise to any sensitive viewers for the rather icky shade of green wall. It was lime green when we first did it - honest - and we felt lime green and orange were suitably invigorating colours for our office/study. But that was about six years and much sunshine ago; it's now a very fetching pucey yellowy mess. Must redecorate. Everywhere. Sometime. Soon.
Hmmm. Can't work out how to get the text NOT to start all squashed up at the side of the photos. Sigh.
Anyway; yesterday. Emily and Jon went off to ballet, where Emily was singled out for praise by her teacher, which she was mightily thrilled about. Come September she'll move up to the exam class, which will probably be a bit of a relief. The class at the moment is mainly full of much younger children who, with the best will in the world, don't really want to be there and aren't interested, hence the chaos that passes for a weekly lesson.
Emily spent much of the rest of yesterday doing more Tudor costume design and pottering about happily.
So far today, she's spent all morning researching and writing a Tudor banquet menu. Entirely her own wish. Tried to get her interested in playing Catz or neopets on the spare PC so I could keep her company (or is it the other way round?) whilst I'm working, but no, she finds the whole Tudor thing so much fun, can't keep her away from it. Jonathan's out shopping looking for some pretty obscure ingredients for a Tudor cooking session (although we may give the roast peacock a miss..). I've been working away on deadlines for the BBC, an English magazine (who managed to give me a whole one day's notice of the deadline) and a US magazine. We really need to buck up our income over the next few months, so it's all hands on deck. Better get on with some work, then, instead of writing this!!
2 comments:
Oh my goodness, what an extraordinary amount of pictures/writing/general work! All from one 6yo! I am going to have to stop reading your blog as will feel distinctly inferior and useless on the HE front if I'm not careful!
Hope the magazine work is going well - articles or adverts? what sort of stuff are you working on? So nosey, sorry!
Oooh, don't feel like that! I feel inadequate most days, we're still finding our feet really. Emily doesn't always produce that amount of "work" but she was obssessed (sp?) with Egypt for months! So long as she's asking for "work", we suggest stuff for her to do, and then it's up to her whether she wants to or not...with Egypt, she generally did want to.
Magazine work is generally mother-child horoscopes/profiles (for the US market) or new age/astrological articles. Going well, yes, just wish people would get their acts together and not drop deadlines on me at the last minute!
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