Summer and things are very fertile in our household - how about you?

So July is .....wet so far but today we have had one of the first hot days in ages so T started the day by pulling some tatoes from his plot which are currently roasting in the oven to go with our - well their - Sunday roast. He got 19 Anya potatos from his plot along with one bean! an green'un. I picked aload from the rest of the plot and they are going in the pot along with some of the broc frozen a few weeks ago and some of the summer cabbage not eaten by the slugs. The slug soup currently steeping in a bucket stinks to high heaven and is collecting quite a nice posse of flies so I'm going to have to nag D to chuck it before it makes me vomit!Mmmmm dried salted slugs yum!!! I've been doing slug patrol every night at about 9ish much to the amusement of fellow allotment holders as I am usually kitted out in green wellies and little miss chatterbox pj bottoms. I'm sorry I have no shame!!! We gave Minni some eggs to sit on from G, our next allotment neighbour. They are bantam eggs and really weeny! I also stuck in some duck eggs from sainsburys to see if they do anything as there has been some talk on home ed boards of kids hatching free range duck eggs from waitrose...sadly I think they are duds - obviously they're not posh enough!!!! We had a try at egg candling but we didn't do it right - rubbish torch and sunny day - So we're having a go again tonight to see what we can see - two of the bantam eggs were definitely opaque so fingers crossed!!!

Loads of the second wave of seedlings are ready to go in - finally and the allotment really seems to be in full swing. T is very proud of his plot, seems to think that he will probably win the sunflower comp AND takes everyone that visits to look at his plot!

T's reading has been coming along really well over the past few months and last week he started playing on Study Dog again. He got half way though level two about 6 months ago but lost interest as his reading wasn't Strong enough to play some of the games but he went back to it and really went for it this time. On Tues he stayed up playing on it till 8.30 when I had to kick him off it and send him to bed (can;t complain really - if it was playstation or another "game" i would limit the time but it was vowel combinations and spelling) He is now about half way though level three and really steaming though asking if there is a Study Dog 4 so I'll have to find something else for him to play on! I tested his reading, very informal and probably not that accurate, but I wanted to put a level in my statement of Educational Provision to give to the LEA as they like levels and numbers ;-) According to this test his reading age is 6 yrs and 2 months - not 1 month or 3 months mind 2 months!!!! tee hee. He has now finished the Oxford reading Tree Songbirds Stage 4 and is now bugging me to buy stage 5! I'm going to take him to the library again next week as all this book buying is getting a little expensive! L will be able to use them too but things are a little tight at the mo so we have to be careful.

Most local libraries and the Bear Factory are running a reading program where by the child gets rewards for reading 6 books, can;t see that being a problem as he tends to do one every couple of days but we're going to join coz we like the free stuff!!!!!

Oh printed off some fab diagrams to colour in from www.enchantedlearning.com I'd forgotten all the fab print outs they do!

Oh and cornflour play.........really really flippin messy - educational but really, not planning on doing it for a good few years again!!!!

Ah well that will probably be the update for July as I seem to be very pants at keeping up with this blogging malarkey! We've probably done loads more but can;t remember!