Wishing all the mothers grandmothers, great grandmothers and of course mothers to be a very happy Mother’s Day today – we hope that you can enjoy your day wherever it may be 🎉🥳🥰❤️
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Happy Birthday Vicky
We hope you have a terrific day despite needing to work and the impending lockdown that is slowly affecting all lives.
All our love, Simon, Elliot, Oliver, Best Dog and Fred xx
The op….
…. was successful and the eldest is now recovering nicely with his Xbox as a handy element towards pain relief 👌
Elly was incredibly brave yesterday – way more than I think we expected and the nurses made a comment on how wonderful his manners and overall approach was – nice one Els 🙂
Now it is all about relaxed recovery – we have arrange a week off school (lesson prep apparently will be shared with him via FireFly so at least he won’t find himself far behind 🙂
Oliver’s parents evening….
Last night was Olly’s parents evening and we had 15 minutes with his two core teachers.
Bottom line is that he seems to be happy at school (which we fully agree with now that the issues of earlier in the school year with one of his classmates appears to be resolved) and that with the exception of his ability to retain focus during lessons, he is doing well overall.
His SAT scores are 102 for maths and 110 for combined English. Therefore he is about where he should be (we did hear that phrase perhaps too often last night) although would really be helped with additional focus.
At this stage we are pretty happy with his progress and will knuckle down on his focus and writing – we saw clearly last night that he absolutely can write neatly, he just needs a greater focus on it and more and more practise.
We escaped a sinking ship….
Today, we visited Escape Hunt in Leeds and took on Black Beard’s sinking galleon. It was a whole load of fun and all four of us brought value to the game in that if any one of us was not there, we would not have escaped 🙂
The boys really enjoyed it and were totally in the thick of it – Olly right from the off as he found the first key and Elliot as he figured out how to get us into the second room (Black Beard’s Office) – something that the rest of us were stumped on.
There was a need to find some clues in the office that were definitely challenging but between us we figured it out – Olly struck gold again when he noticed that the paintings on the wall showed us something about the room that wasn’t quite in place – when he made it so,we got the final clue
We really struggled with one piece that was about a keyboard – it took us 10 minutes to figure out and together with some help from our assistant, we nailed it and ultimately finished in 56 minutes and 10 seconds so thankfully we were saved from certain drowning ♂️
