Martha's 1st Birthday!

Martha reached the grand age of 1 year on wednesday 23rd April. We celebrated with family and friends on 24th. She enjoyed her birthday cake, although cake would be a bit of a misnomer - it was a caterpillar made out of 20 doughnuts and 40 chocolate fingers!

Grandma, Aunty Sam , Uncle Kris, Nathan& Lewis, Andrew, Nicola, Melissa, Jenny and Jamie Browne, and Sue Wyatt joined us for tea, and Martha also received phone calls, emails, cards and gifts from other friends and family in Grimsby, Bristol, Bournemouth and Utah. Thank you to everyone!

Normanby Hall

Last month me and Richard set up a yahoo email group for home-educators in Lincolnshire. We have around 35 members already and many are contributing to the group and a few meet-ups have already been organised. We were able to meet many of these lovely families on Tuesday at Normanby Hall Country Park. Last time I visited Normanby (probably 10 years ago) you paid a car park fee which allowed access to the grounds, and then you paid extra to go into the Hall. They now have one admission price which includes the Park grounds, the Hall, and farming museum. We paid for an annual family membership of £18 (less than the cost of 2 visits), so we can enjoy the park for the rest of the year with no more fees!!

Geography Lesson

Last week me and Emily completed our 600 piece world map jigsaw puzzle. Each country piece of the puzzle was shaped as the country which made it quite tricky to hold together. The ocean pieces locked together in the traditional jigsaw way - so we completed the oceans first and then put in the countries. Here we are putting together Asia. It was a really good way to get an understanding of the different sizes of the various countries and also about where they are located in conjunction with other countries. Europe was very tricky with some very tiny countries. The company that produces this puzzle also does one for each continent - I would like to do the "Europe" one next.