The Acorns have returned home.
We had a lovely break in Penzance, despite the weather, I'll blog it later this week.
We returned home to news that our neighbour has died and a relative has received a diagnosis of cancer. Its definitely put a full stop to that holiday feeling for me - hence postponing the holiday blogging...
...still to look on the bright side, all our cats are here - they haven't gone off to interview new owners like they normally do when we return from our travels, only a little bit of the garden has been eaten by slugs, we haven't been burgled, we are not flooded and Charley has been evicted from Big Brother.
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Friday, 20 July 2007
Still here...but going...
We're still here, playing in the rain.
BA and MA have been off school for a week and are bored already...
LA and I took MA to a HE group Monday, it went well. It followed her spending 2 weeks in a Primary school on work experience, she doesn't appear to be so anti HE now...
Today (Friday) Rich has taken Holly the Collie to my Mums in Suffolk for her annual holiday. And here at Acorn Central we are preparing to leave for our holiday, probably our last family holiday ever. We are off to Penzance (or "Mens Pants" as MA calls it) for a week. We are hoping for peace - but our past history on family holidays doesn't bode well for this...
...back next week...
BA and MA have been off school for a week and are bored already...
LA and I took MA to a HE group Monday, it went well. It followed her spending 2 weeks in a Primary school on work experience, she doesn't appear to be so anti HE now...
Today (Friday) Rich has taken Holly the Collie to my Mums in Suffolk for her annual holiday. And here at Acorn Central we are preparing to leave for our holiday, probably our last family holiday ever. We are off to Penzance (or "Mens Pants" as MA calls it) for a week. We are hoping for peace - but our past history on family holidays doesn't bode well for this...
...back next week...
Saturday, 14 July 2007
BA and college
Well, the saga of College and BA continues.
Rich has spoken to the head of year, who was equally as unsympathetic to BA's exhaustion as the women I spoke to. They went on to insist that he had to get next years project work in by the following day (!!!!), even though he was not intending to take that subject next year... and if he didn't he wouldn't be allowed back in school.
Well poor BA sat up to 3 am finishing the pointless project, put it on a flash drive and took it into school the next morning. The laptop he was given had no power and died, corrupting his files... so he lost his work.
So he came home...and now has the summer wondering if he's allowed back at school.
They make me fume, how dare they treat him like that. He says he's "not bothered" if they kick him out, he'll find somewhere else or do something else, he's just grateful its the summer holidays and they can't nag him anymore. Me too.
Rich has spoken to the head of year, who was equally as unsympathetic to BA's exhaustion as the women I spoke to. They went on to insist that he had to get next years project work in by the following day (!!!!), even though he was not intending to take that subject next year... and if he didn't he wouldn't be allowed back in school.
Well poor BA sat up to 3 am finishing the pointless project, put it on a flash drive and took it into school the next morning. The laptop he was given had no power and died, corrupting his files... so he lost his work.
So he came home...and now has the summer wondering if he's allowed back at school.
They make me fume, how dare they treat him like that. He says he's "not bothered" if they kick him out, he'll find somewhere else or do something else, he's just grateful its the summer holidays and they can't nag him anymore. Me too.
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