Worshipping at the Temple of the mighty Cocoa.

Blessed be the Chocolate bar! Today we visited Cadburys World in Birmingham. What better therapy for the winter blues?
It was much much better than I expected, interesting, educational and with a wonderful aroma of Chocolate.
We learnt about Coco beans, the Incas, fair trade and obviously - chocolate. Also a bit about Quakers and life in the late 1800's.

We had a lovely relaxing family day out, which made us realise that we don't make enough effort to get out and enjoy things together. Until September this year, I worked every weekend and Rich worked in the week, we simply haven't had opportunity to spend time together. Since then, we've been using our weekends together to catch up on mundane tasks that need both of us, like painting the landing! But now we are making an attempt to claim our weekends back!

We also came away with lots of chocolate bars. WOW! BONUS!

Inspired by this, we have put aside all other work this week and we are going to have a chocolate themed week, learning more about the production of chocolate, fair trade, Incas, and lots of choccy cooking.

Still struggling

So much for last weeks plans! I still feel as if we are failing to achieve anything. To be fair, it could be because I've had virus after virus for the last fortnight, or the ongoing pressures from work which, at the moment, are immense.
Plodding on...

New Plan...

New Plan...
1. English - continue using the Letts workbooks. Emily enjoys them and they make life easier...
2. Maths - as above, plus mathletics.
3. Science - abandon all sense of direction and go where curiosity takes us; at least, for a little while...
4. History - Never mention dinosaurs again. Never ever. Continue our own journey through time, using the galore park books as a reference not a lead. Might need to recap a bit, since we abandoned our journey in September.

Everything else remains as chaotic as before.
Now where's that Yellow Moon catalogue?