Cait
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Are they old enough to understand ‘what time is it, mr wolf?’ Tatty Bumpkin style of yoga storytelling? neither really Lycra or elastic, but just different ideas. oh there’s one we played sometimes with a long elastic that had a bead on, and they slide it round and hide it in their hand and the person in the middle had to guess who had the bead. That was more 4-5 year olds though.
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Yes, it’s jolly solid!
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It has a TPO on it, and we had it looked at and trimmed just after we moved in. It hadn’t been looked at for a long time before that, as the previous owner said ‘it should grow as God intended’ 😳. I guess she never cut her hair or nails 🤣🤭
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How do you get on with insurance for that if the tree is in your garden? We have a huge 260 year old oak tree that would do serious damage to our neighbouring properties - and ours, if it fell this way. I asked the insurance company to note it in our policy and they were quite blasé about It, casually ‘oh yeah, yeah, ok’ so each time we get those strong winds, I panic a bit!
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We loved ours too!
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I earned a teatowel from them for sending a certain quantity, I seem to remember 🤔
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This is the picture that I used when I learned the crochet knot - between colour change 5 and 6 😳😂 Its really easy and it honestly doesn’t come undone, even though you cut the yarn right on the knot. It’s basically two knots that slide together when you pull the yarns, then you cut the tails off. It means I have to crochet to the corner, cut the yarn with a 3cm tail then pull the work out to a long enough thread to tie with the next colour. Then when I’ve joined the colours, the knot falls properly in the corner and gets hidden when I turn back for the next row. I’m flipping the work over at the end of each round, so there’s not an obvious join in the rows like there can be in granny squares.
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Ooh are they still a thing? I made loads of those years ago. Great for using up odds and ends!
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Fabulous! Did you knit your threads as you went along or weave them in? Looks very cosy. X
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We had three consecutive christmases without power from Christmas Eve until various amounts of days, one of which was well over a week, when we lived in Cumbria. They finally routed the cables underground and it stopped it, mostly. It was unbelievable the second time when the lights went out during midnight communion. The third year I hadn’t even bothered buying a turkey or feeding the freezer, so there was nothing really lost.
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Oh dear - I hope she picks up properly soon. I hear the Queen has tested positive with mild, cold-like symptoms and intends to continue with her light duties this week! 😳😳
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I’ll do the 12 circuits of white and then measure again. I might finish off by doing two circuits of each colour. That’ll give another block of 12 rows
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It’s actually a pale baby blue, just a break from crochet. It’s a long way round the blanket now!
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Copied from Twitter, but too funny not to share
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We managed okay here yesterday. The oak tree is still standing!
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There’s a ‘disabled’ loo too, complete with changing table, so technically, there could be more, but the outside area wouldn’t cope with that. Having run a preschool in the past, I’d not like to have many more than a dozen children in that space at one time. She’s not got back to me, so maybe the realities have put her off …….
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The hall is really big, has one big main room that’s larger than a badminton/tennis court, a smaller room half that size and a kitchen the same size as the smaller room. It has an access loo and three ladies loos - one of which is a mini loo, as well as the usual gents setup. Bit of outdoor space but all tarmac - the one downside is that there’s no parking.
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Sending love and hugs. Hopefully she will get her balances settled quickly. Xxx
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Oh my goodness! Let’s hope these occurrences are getting milder now until it just becomes a strain of a common cold.
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Thanks for that. Yes, I got the impression she didn’t have much of a clue, as her email wasn’t particularly professional. It’s the church hall, and we do hire it out for lots of things already. Mainly evening, Saturday dance class and a couple of afternoons - Japanese drummers etc. I asked her for more info when I told her our prices, and she’s not come back to me, so maybe she’s decided we are too expensive. At £12:50 an hour she would need a room load of children to cover that and staffing, insurance etc!
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That looks fabulous! Well done! I found that when I did mine, it was better to trim one of the layers of batting back a bit so I wasn’t fighting with two layers right at the fold of the binding. better than my first attempt!
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Are you going to show us? Pretty please?
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That’s very possible.
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Yes good point. I do wonder if she’s done any research into need, we do seem to have a few preschool/playgroups in town!
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Recipes for slime and anything messy and fun!
Cait replied to Greenfinch's topic in Teaching and Learning
Ours loved this ….. https://www.funathomewithkids.com/2013/10/edible-slime-or-gak-chemical-and-borax.html
