Life, Love & Literature

Today was one of those days where all seems well with the world.

We waved off Grandpa Bob this morn­ing, than sat down to work.

Sam’s read­ing is com­ing on in leaps and bounds and in spite of being intro­duced to a new con­cept in maths he was com­pletely unfazed and rushed through it.

Jack also worked incred­i­bly quickly and effi­ciently, maths was no prob­lem and then he wrote a diary entry pre­tend­ing he was a mem­ber of a British tribe in Roman Britain when news of Boudicca’s rebel­lion hit.

March 13th

I am so con­fused. I don’t know what to do. Oh right you don’t know about it sorry.

 I went out to the mar­ket today to get some bar­ley and wheat. I heard rumours that Boudicca was rebelling against the Romans from the mar­ket stall holder.

 On one hand I want the Celts and Gauls to be free, but on the other hand, are the Romans that bad? They have let us become Roman cit­i­zens and have improved the drainage and our buildings.

 I know both sides are going to call me up to fight in there army. I don’t know what to do.

 Do I sup­port Boudicca and free­dom or do I sup­port Cae­sar and civil­i­sa­tion? I don’t know?

If I sup­port the Celts and they win my father will lose his job. I must fight for the Roman empire.

Sam made a Greek the­atre mask

After piano prac­tice it was Latin and we were fin­ish­ing off the first chap­ter of Min­imus so they made Latin birth­day cards

and then they worked together to make some vocab­u­lary cards. It is very sel­dom that I set them aca­d­e­mic tasks to do together as Jack is not sur­pris­ingly far in advance.  But Latin is some­thing that they have started together and Sam is hold­ing his own which is nice to see.

After that we did a short Latin vocab test, read a cou­ple of chap­ters of Good­night Mr Tom and had some lunch.

After lunch Lisa kindly picked us up and we went around to play and drink tea for the afternoon.

After­wards we decided to make the most of the weather before the Indian sum­mer fades (which I think it already has, the wind has got up and it was rain­ing when I brought the wash­ing in), so we went straight to the beach.

Where there was more pad­dling (this time in swim­ming shorts not fully dressed!)…

…some swim­ming…

…snug­gling up for warmth…

…more funny hair dos…

…and toss­ing of pebbles.

We rounded off with a healthy tea of chips and ice cream while we watched the sun­set, before com­ing home and cud­dling up on the set­tee to watch Planet Dinosaur.