Last Tuesday we went to the Ice Age Art exhibition at the British Museum, which was amazing. It drew parallels with more current artistic developments in a way that was really enlightening and although it was quite a wordy exhibition and we had to work hard to absorb all the info, we were both totally engrossed and neither of us was desperate to hit the shop before the end! We had some really interesting conversations off the back of it as well, especially about the way the female figures which are probably one of the most common form of paleolithic art, changed from the ones I always think of as typical, rounded, big-breasted, saggy-bellied earth mothers, to slender, pert-breasted, nubile young figures by about 14,000 years ago. Sexual objectification of women not a modern phenomenon then!
Afterwards, we got noodles from Wasabi and sat out in Bloomsbury Square to eat...on the grass, without coats! Today it is snowing.....the weather is weird!
Wednesday we went to Ireland to see a cousin I hadn't seen in 24 years. Not just Wednesday obviously...we went Weds am and came back Friday night! We had a fabulous time. We visited a wildlife park and the Cobh Heritage Centre where we learned about the famine of the 1840s, emmigration, transportation to Australia, the Titanic and the sinking of the Lusitania.Hannah also made 2 new friends and swapped addresses with one of them. This was one of those...."and they think home ed children don't socialise" moments as H asked if she could go out to explore the immediate area round my cousin's house, which is on a very quiet housing estate. Ten minutes later she was back with a new friend! I know it's impossible to say whether she would have regained the social confidence that school knocked out of her in those first (and only) two terms, but she's certainly not suffered from not being at school.
Saturday we were up at the crack of dawn to collect our friends and drive to Long Melford in Suffolk for the Kentwell open day. Yes, we have finally applied to do this. I am divided between excited anticipation and sheer terror! But the open day was largely fun and people were lovely and we should find out in a few weeks whether we are going to spend a week of the summer in 1559!
Sunday..not much
Today Hannah took her first guitar exam. We think it went okay, but was a positive experience anyway as she was very nervous going in but came out all smiles because the examiner was really nice! Okay, good....all caught up,,,,,BED
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