Cait
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Aww thank you xxx. It’s a lovely sunny start but forecast doesn’t look so brill. We are hoping to go to the beach.
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Our long tailed tits have fledged! There are at least 5 babies in the front garden - so ridiculously excited! I want to rush out there and scoop them up off the damp grass! 🤣🤣🤣
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Well wasn’t that a lovely coronation! I bet they’re soooo relieved - what a security nightmare!
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Ugh. Feel better soon! I’ve heard of a few folk who have it at the moment.
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Friday already! January took forever and now it’s racing by!
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She used card as she couldn’t source the Pellon in the time she wanted. She’s very much a ‘do it whilst the inspiration strikes’ kind of girl. 🤣🤭
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Card holder pattern is here - the one my daughter used.
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Yes I’ve seen those, my daughter made some for a friend for exactly the same reason! They’re very good.
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That’s really generous. Our knit and natter made bees for Earth Day and they were scattered around the town, in shop windows and on letterboxes etc. it was quite fun. Yarn bombing! We made neonatal blankets over the winter, and one of the ladies was sewing up long scarves that her aunt had knit in her old age and making them into a blanket to donate to a water boxes for Africa charity, I think she said.
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Oh and a hat for Zebedee as most of his hair has gone now. It’s hand spun wool so has thick bits and scarily thin bits and occasional bits of a different colour caught in, so very random! He asked me to make ‘something bright’ so I think this fits the bill 🤣🤣🤭
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I’ve finally got round to making up a peg bag kit that I bought in the first lockdown when everyone was sewing and baking! It got put to one side whilst I produced scrub hats and masks of course and has kept resurfacing during every subsequent sort in my sewing room. If I do another, I’ll simplify it considerably, not least by buying bias binding rather than parping about making it! oh, and I won’t spend days hand quilting in a spiral with chain stitch!
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Sounds excellent! Looking forward to seeing a picture of that! 🤣
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What’s everyone busy with at the moment?
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They did! This week it was lemon buns with a swirl of lemon buttercream with a big white chocolate button in the top! Chemo 4 went down well and he is glowing this morning 🤣
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Welcome and hello from me too. Naming rooms could depend on your surroundings or in the name of your preschool. My previous preschool was named after an animal, so the younger end was just the name of the baby of that animal. We just had two age block rooms. Trees can be good as they’re gender neutral, ash, oak, beech, birch, elm, etc. you could even have seedlings and saplings for the younger end. I can’t think of a life cycle that breaks down into so many discrete parts, so, as Sunnyday suggests, maybe you could just keep it simple and just use the age band names to avoid any confusion and explanation of what they mean.
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That’s brilliant news! Onwards and upwards!
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Is the spray any good? I’ve noticed that before and wondered - certainly less effort required if it is!
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Ah, it’ll all be good. Remember, don’t sweat the small stuff! Don’t try to control things that are outside your control. People’s reactions to things are a construct of their own making. Nobody can make you feel mad, bad, miserable or gloriously happy, but yourself!
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Well done you! We had our Eastertide feast in church this lunchtime which was jolly hard work, but very worthwhile.
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It was at that point that I retired! The first load were my Brownies children, then the children of those children - time to go!
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Good morning! I’m pleased to hear it went okay, validation is extremely important, especially from a professional! Good! I’ve got a busy weekend too, we are holding our Eastertide lunch on Sunday so catering for 50plus. It’s a free event with donations welcome. I’m making all the gluten free stuff to replicate what’s being provided for the ‘muggles’ as well as sticky sausages for everyone. I was meant to be making the cheese scones for everyone too, but someone else has volunteered! So just making some GF ones now, a Victoria, chocolate cake traybake, quiche, etc. I admit to having bought a pork pie and the bread as otherwise it all gets a bit overwhelming!
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Hosing it down briefly here. Okay again at the mo
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My Easter Brownies for the oncology nurses. Happy Easter everyone!
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Happy birthday FSF! Crikey, where did the time go? I managed a rural but very busy preschool for 25 years until my husband retired and we decided that I should too. FSF was a lifeline for me in my working years - I joined shortly after Sunnyday and quickly struck up a friendship with her, and several others quickly became Forum Buddies! HappyMaz, Mrs Weasley, Mundia, Panders, ZigZag, Froglet ……you know who you are! I loved doing all the admin things and helping folk with all the paperwork forms we had to generate as evidence, back in the day! Great fun in the chat room lounge - I hope someone shut the door and turned the lights out when it closed - many a hilarious evening spent in there! Oh the birthday threads - so lovely to set up as well as receive! Have they fallen by the wayside? And yes, the Children in Need things and the limerick competitions! I still have my FSF mug, pencil and notebook! Such happy days - thank you FSF for taking away the stress of preschool management, you will never know just how much you were all truly instrumental in keeping me sane!
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It’s a nice one, as it’s all about waiting for spring.
