What made you happy today?

Betsy said:
The Ever Beautiful Betsy's nails are a nightmare to clip. The front ones have twisted with age and she is very happy to use her teeth freely on my hand. Meg just hates her nails being clipped and screams blue murder and Patsy moves her feet all the time so that's not easy either. My Cutey Pie Rainbow Piggy Dennis's nails were easy to clip as he was so laid back I could do anything and he wasn't phased and My Handsome Silver Fox Rainbow Piggy Christian just sat there and let me clip away. Christian wasn't always so relaxed. At first I had to wrap him up like a Sausage Roll and it was def a 2 person job!
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Nugget has twisty nails too and mals are black (and both her and marshmallow have been known to nip) 😱 its always an achievement when I get all 5 done in one go! Only downside (or upside as hopefully caught early) was this weeks success resulted in the finding of mals swollen toe 🙄🤦‍♀️
 
Betsy said:
I love sailing. My Dad had a Dart Catamaran when I was growing up. Great fun. Especially when out on the baby bouncer.

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That looks great fun! I’m too old and creaky for sails now but did enough sailing with our friends from Plymouth. Sadly they have sold their beautiful boat now and bought a motor home. Their Grandkids arrived too 😂
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Another lovely walk by the sea this morning on my way home.
It was soo clear and the view across the River Dee to North Wales was beautiful.
The end of a perfect morning
 

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It certainly is. But I think you are always envious of what you don’t have on your doorstep. I love the sea, I find the sound of the waves lapping very relaxing.
My grandma has a river at the end of her garden and I could sit there for hours listening to it!
 
My plans for this morning were cancelled at short notice (someone was ill) so I was at a loose end. I decided to go for a walk at one of my favourite local spots. The weather was unexpectedly lovely so I got to walk in sunshine, followed by a friendly robin. And I even saw a mummy duck on the lake with her ducklings.
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I made half a thing! Got myself a cheap jersey bedsheet from Primark to practice sewing with jersey before I use the good expensive stuff. I've never sewn jersey and never made clothing other than a dress for my daughter. So incredibly proud and it was easier to work with than I anticipated (perhaps helped by watching helpful tips videos on YouTube first). Just need to hem and add the neckband. The materials quite thin but might use it as a pyjama top 😊
 

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Buckets of rain - and parched water butts at school are filling fast and not leaking :tu:
Noticed on Saturday that the filler hose for the big one had split - mad panic rushing round to find replacement as shops about to shut - trotting back on site with new bit to find it was definitely (but oh-so-very-slightly) too small. All suppliers were shut till Tuesday - knew heavy rain was in the forecast for Mon so I sat for an hour yesterday morning in the cold trying to cobble bits of old tubing together with ptfe tape and string. And thank goodness it seems to have worked!
 
Yesterday I had to be the teacher for the whole day. I was alone for the first lesson but I managed it! And overall the children were good! I was so pleased. Today has been more of a tough one but that’s okay. They can’t always be fabulous days 😁
 
Helped catch a lost dog (I'm scared of dogs normally) and met the owner. Turns out we are just a few houses away from each other. Plus, two of my kids got to meet the pup and had a great time giggling and getting puppy kisses in the car.
 
I was observed by the deputy head and she said she enjoyed sitting in on my lesson 🤪💃 a few pointers but they are very minor. I was scared but all for nothing it seems. Preparation is the key.

I also found out it’s a small world! One of the children in the class was in reception with my youngest! And she remembers her and my daughter remembers the child as well. Weird!
 
On my way out of school some year 5s were skipping with a big rope and I taught them a barely-remembered skipping rhyme (obvs with the line "how many boys did you kiss last night?" changed to "how many sweets did you eat last night?" - still causing a small scandal - and that's why I'm not a TA!) and they were right up for it as they only knew half of one rhyme and they all wanted to practice skipping, because they'd had a Lesson in it. A Lesson!

A few years back skipping was banned at school - like a lot of other junior schools - which meant most of the kids never had a go, as the very little ones at infant school are rarely coordinated enough to manage it. It wasn't until a visit to a 'living history' museum that they saw a washing line tied to a lampost in the Victorian bit (next to hoops-and-sticks) and were asking why it was so low down. Me and another 'mummy helper' tried to demonstrate skipping - despite being a bit bulky and ungainly in wet cagouls it went down well - like some sort of magic trick! There have been rumblings ever since and today we saw a big beardy bloke arrive and take each class out on the yard and explain how to skip. We volunteers were having a break in the garden and pondering how times have changed and now a school has to now pay a man to come and teach children how to skip 'properly' rather than just providing ropes and letting them teach each other! He did boxer-style hopping from one foot to the other (not the easiest method) and he didn't do rhymes ("I don't sing, Miss"). But it's a start! Next month I'm going to cause ructions by suggesting they allow cartwheels on the field again... ;)
 
Free Ranger said:
On my way out of school some year 5s were skipping with a big rope and I taught them a barely-remembered skipping rhyme (obvs with the line "how many boys did you kiss last night?" changed to "how many sweets did you eat last night?" - still causing a small scandal - and that's why I'm not a TA!) and they were right up for it as they only knew half of one rhyme and they all wanted to practice skipping, because they'd had a Lesson in it. A Lesson!

A few years back skipping was banned at school - like a lot of other junior schools - which meant most of the kids never had a go, as the very little ones at infant school are rarely coordinated enough to manage it. It wasn't until a visit to a 'living history' museum that they saw a washing line tied to a lampost in the Victorian bit (next to hoops-and-sticks) and were asking why it was so low down. Me and another 'mummy helper' tried to demonstrate skipping - despite being a bit bulky and ungainly in wet cagouls it went down well - like some sort of magic trick! There have been rumblings ever since and today we saw a big beardy bloke arrive and take each class out on the yard and explain how to skip. We volunteers were having a break in the garden and pondering how times have changed and now a school has to now pay a man to come and teach children how to skip 'properly' rather than just providing ropes and letting them teach each other! He did boxer-style hopping from one foot to the other (not the easiest method) and he didn't do rhymes ("I don't sing, Miss"). But it's a start! Next month I'm going to cause ructions by suggesting they allow cartwheels on the field again... ;)
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Do they learn how to do double dutch jump rope? I started to learn as a child, but when my family moved nobody had even heard of it in my new school. It's really fun and takes a lot of coordination.
 
My old gals had to have a duvet day yesterday as we were out for most of it seeing a friend and having a (very cold and shivery) pub lunch outside. When I popped them in the run this morning, Betsy, Patsy and Meg were doing geriatric zoomies around the run and Meg even did a couple of old girl popcorns! It's so lovely to see my girls who are all in their dotage (Meg was 5 two days ago and the other 2 are older than that) still loving life. This made me very happy.
 
After a few days of thinking the boys weren’t getting on as a result of Kronk having a hormone spike (I think he’s officially a grumpy teenager) it was so lovely to watch Kuzco follow Kronk around until he lay down to sleep and then cuddling into him to sleep too :luv: so good to see that they still love each other even if they irritate each other a bit 😅 (all of my happy stories are pig related... they are the most interesting part of my day 😂)
 
A VERY bracing walk this afternoon, we climbed up to the top of a hill and could see Chesil Beach, and rough choppy sea, the swans at the Swannery swimming in the Fleet. We could barely stand up straight for the strong winds but it was worth it and the piggies got tasty forage for their afternoon tea just now- lucky boys!
 
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