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  1. No there's only the series that's just started.
  2. I like late spring and early to mid autumn. No high heat. I find the the damp erratically hot British summer hard to put up with and spring and autumn seem to have more nice days and it's lovely when the air is beginning to get crisp. It doesn't really start to frost where I am until mid November so it's just a really pleasant temperature here in September and October.
  3. I have a very tall daughter and that age was hard. She's 12 now and filled out just enough that the smallest women's sizes fit properly.. She wears a mix of teens clothes too as the few ranges here do go up pretty tall they're just limited. It might just be an awkward couple of years. The smallest adult sizes in gap have been very useful, particularly in t shirts. I would keep going looking at teen ranges. Not every brand does stuff that's too grown up. Next is somewhere we've had luck with because the teen clothing goes up to a decent height (5ft 10 supposedly) while staying slim in fit. I know they have international websites. Oh and h&m tends to come up very slim so it's worth looking at women's sizes.
  4. Try flea treatments with different active ingredients. We have cats and had to change products because they just stopped working. We may have to again because they're becoming less effective again.
  5. I've experienced two house fires in my life. I don't remember much about the first because I was about 9 and it was on the smaller side and just wrecked a small area. I mostly remember being rushed out of the house and all the chaos afterwards. The second fire was about 14 1/2 years ago and we lost close to all our belongings and it was made worse by the time of year (deep winter) and the fact there was a firefighter's strike on at the time so the army put the fire out. We lived in an apartment block and the place was just trashed, no roof and lots of caved in beams. We weren't allowed in for a couple of weeks because they needed to assess the structural safety but when we finally did we lost most belongings to water damage and smoke but also being so damp there was massive mould and fungus growing on everything. It was a very surreal experience. We stayed with friends for the next couple of months before we moved properly and got given a lot of clothes and things. It's hard not to feel a burden in these situations and your vulnerability just hits home. Since we lost so much I have found myself to be very unattached to belongings, I'm sure it's got a lot to do with how easily you can lose it all. This amount of time on it does seem like a dream but It did change my views on what home is/what our needs are and I don't think that's been a good thing necessarily. I think the mental repercussions can take a while to be realised. It's not something I think about much these days but we have a single pillowcase from our bed linen at that time and I really hate coming across it when it occasionally gets brought out and used.
  6. It does ramp up after a bit but it will depend on how well they do since it responds to what they do well or not.
  7. I think you start the assessment for each child by just clicking the little icon at the bottom of their name tag on the page when you select their profile. After that it just seems to constantly assess and there is a test type thing every so often.
  8. I think it was me who linked it. I agree it's a great program. If anyone does sign up make sure you sign up on the English website because you get the emails from them in english. I made the mistake of signing up in German at first but luckily in the free trial so just re-signed up. My eldest is at about 2 months with this program now and it does definitely evolve with them. She finds it a bit stressful though because it just gets straight to all the things she struggles with.
  9. Maybe Skechers? They're pretty wide in the toe generally, especially the go walks, and very soft inside.
  10. I learned violin for about 6 years but I hated my teacher and gave up without really being where I should have been after that time. I'd like to take it up again. I was in multiple theatre groups and loads of productions throughout my teens. I went on to work professionally as a stage manager but after a few years I hated it (well except opera work) and I've had nothing to do with it for the last decade and don't miss it at all and don't even feel any affinity for it. I found it an area with a high proportion of deeply unpleasant people which kind of killed it for me. I think overall involvement in that world has had a negative impact on my life, it can be a weird and unhealthy environment. I did a photography class as an older teen, loved that and photography is still my main interest. It's quite a useful skill. I did stuff like swimming and gymnastics too but never very consistently, mostly just with school, I was never much good at sport and never very interested in it.
  11. I'm the eldest of 3. I hate my sister and made a choice to not have anything to do with her a few years ago. I don't think it's possible to have a normal relationship with her but It's not something that bothers me particularly. I'm close to my brother, we are very similar and share a sense of humour and interests so I guess that helps. I speak to him on the phone every couple of weeks approximately and see him pretty regularly, maybe every 2-3 months the last couple of years, but we go through phases of seeing him a lot more.
  12. It's set up like a game as you've probably figured out. I only use one child but it seems like you can add multiple kids. Don't forget to do the assesment. I'm seeing improvements in her speed and confidence. She seems to be able to add and subtract more accurately. Basic maths facts and just the whole relationships between number make more sense to her and are more quickly acessible to her plus She's got more of a sense of when she's got something wrong. She's improved on knowing the process to go through when presented with problems in the maths curriculum we use. She's a very low performer in maths though so the improvements probably seem quite big to me when they're relatively small. I don't expect her to ever reach a massively high level, just be functional in life. I don't know how long we'll keep on using it, I've noticed the content has kicked up a notch and covering slightly different things the past 10 days or so so I imagine it might be something we do for a few more months at least. There's quite a lot on the Meister Cody site about the research that went into creating the program so that's could be worth a read if you haven't found it.
  13. My eldest has been using Meister Cody. It's a new program by a German university for dyscalculia and it's made a difference after about a month of daily use. It's challenging for her though so she doesn't love it but it seems to be helping. I've noticed some basic things are beginning to become more understandable for her. Its meant for younger kids but I just selected the oldest age range. There's a weeks free trial and then there's a monthly membership. https://www.meistercody.com/en
  14. In my corner of the UK about £1million but a lot less if you don't need that much land. A house that big plus land tends to be really lovely old rural historical houses with their gardens/orchards intact or similar so not cheap but also not super common. With a small typical British garden there's quite a lot around probably about £400k and up they'd probably be relatively small on space though too.
  15. I developed a major sensitivity to most shampoo, basically the common detergents. It was so uncomfortable and my scalp was raw and so dry. I went over to using a conditioning cleanser for a while and now I'm using a super gentle shampoo from a natural skin care company that has a different cleanser in it. It took a while for my skin to heal completely.
  16. It's very bottom heavy where I am too. Many of the home education groups have looked more like toddler and pre school groups at times. Some of that was because there were no groups for families who were very child led, alternative, attachment parenting etc. so those families kind of just came because home ed was mostly similarly minded people. I also think a lot of people have had enough of the reality of doing it all themselves by the time their kids are actually school aged or the year or so after. I've known people where the parents have decided not to do it beyond preschool when they see all the other kids in their area going off to school or the reality of what the home educating parent so often gives up starts to hit them. None of the families we started out with still home educate except one who already had a much older child alongside a younger one and had already been at it a long time. If I had other alternative school options I think one of my kids would be in a school but the nearest place I would consider is too far.
  17. Yes I mostly look backwards so I'm looking where I'm driving and I have decent visibility in my Scenic but I do obviously use mirrors too if I'm not just going straight back. I was taught to have a good look around before starting maneuvering then keep glancing everywhere but predominantly look in the direction your vehicle is actually travelling.
  18. I think it could be great on some routes like clear wide fast roads that are well kept like motorways and dual carriageways here in the UK. I can't imagine feeling comfortable with it on the local rural roads they're just too narrow and hilly etc and there are so many unpredictable things going on around them like farm animals.
  19. I haven't had my brakes fail dramatically but they did get close a couple of years ago but luckily very near my house. We live on a hill and I was literally just around the corner and if I can get it right I can kind of swing around the junction at the top of the road and on to our drive and then the flat drive gives me some opportunity to slow and pull on the hand brake and stop easily. I also drive manual so I think that helps since its easy to use engine braking.
  20. My eldest about 3 years, she kind of stalled out early on a couple of times and in hindsight may have benefitted from starting a bit later. My youngest about a year maybe just a bit more. He suddenly just got it with far less effort than my eldest. They were both around 7 when it really clicked.
  21. You can usually just check a box to keep details private as long as you are not a business.
  22. I think she made the right decision too. It's quite a full-on thing being a wedding photographer. And there are things like insurance that she should really have sorted out just in case as well as backup equipment. Second shooting for another photographer could be a really good opportunity though if it arises but then the photographer they chose may not want a second shooter they don't know and trust.
  23. Actually I agree Lyme Regis or Charmouth could be better than Cornwall. The museum in Lyme Regis is tiny but brilliant and there are lots of opportunities for fossil hunting. On charmouth beach you can easily pick up fossils and you can hire hammers from the little shop there. They also do guided fossil walks. Also in Lyme Regis you can walk down to the ammonite pavement and we went on a guided tour that way too with some PhD students which was brilliant. They're also just very traditional seaside places and if you were in Dorset there are other interesting places to visit like Corfe Castle. And it's only a couple of hours from Bath.
  24. Well in London there's the more obvious stuff like the Natural History museum and the British Museum. The British museum is huge though so it's worth being very targeted with what you want to look at. My 8yr old can only tolerate it for so long and I think it's due to sheer size and busyness. In Bath the Roman Baths are very good, I would recommend getting there as the place opens in the morning as it's extremely busy as is the rest of Bath and it just gives you a few minutes head start on the crowds. There are audio tours for kids and adults. I live on the Devon/Cornwall border. I think probably the Eden project and National Maritime Museum are two big ones to visit in the area. The Eden project is extremely expensive these days so it's worth looking for offers.
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