Thankfully we can chat again! I missed you all guys!

Doublepost

Just want to let know dd survived her french exam, is totally exausted now, and now we are waiting for the results. We started Easter break early this year (right after the exam) so I hope to find some time to read next week...

I didn’t like to wait 160 pages for the murder ;)

I knew there was something going on!I misspelled dyeing in my mind. Dyeing wool translated to dutch give you also a dutch saying. (Have been dyed through wool) Something like ‘had your feet wet before’ or ‘street smarts’ if translating machines are correctly, and that is where I became confused :D

I just finished Murder at Mansfield Park, although I think the author did a job well done, I could not like the book. Meanwhile I received Kate Shackleton #1 And I wonder about the title, Dying in the wool Can be about death, painting or having a lot experience? The latter is from a dutch saying ‘door de wol geverfd zijn’ but I am not sure it also exist in this meaning in English.

I doubt writing is behind, as Dutch school don’t do much writing at those ages. Spelling might be a different story for your oldest one, your 5yo isn’t supposed to be able to read according the dutch schoolsysteem ;) There are a lot of online practice sites for spelling, like: http://www.spellingoefenen.nl. At 7yo most children only spell one syllable and two syllable words. At 8 they add three syllable words.

When we use the ferry to Kingston upon Hull nearby York, we have to leave the ferry early and try something to do to break the driving. One year we visited the James Herriot Museum while heading to the lake district. Dd just read all creatures great and small :) For now we read and watched Elle s’appalait Sarah. Unfortunetly the dvd had no subtitles, in any language, so dd had to deal with the french... good practice for the french exam this week :D

I wondered that too, as I don’t seem to be able to attach photo’s from my ipad

In 8th grade we started with Kidswrite Intermediate. I just mailed them to ask which class would be a good fit to dd.

Glad with your post! I thought my English was lacking!!!! At certain moment Emma enters in the story of Volume 1, no explanations about her, she just starts to talk :)

Not sure how cold it is where you live, but during winter I don’t eat salads. We eat soup instead as lunch. During summer I don’t eat soups ;)

The biography would be book 7 here. I had some troubles with books that where not described properly in the library and so were set in the wrong era ;) But this monday will be library day so I can try to find some other titles :)

I finished ‘the new Rector’ I will use it for Dorset I think. I liked the book very much, but didn’t like the adultery. I started a biography about Bonhoeffer for the Bingo (birthday present from 2017 so becomes time to read before I’ll have my Birthday again...)

@ Mumto2: Dd is sleeping now, she is slightly better now, but not enough to prepare the exam...

I finished Poison last night. It was a bigger (and more difficult) read then I expected. I would love to see this book on screen, movie or serie doesn't matter... I also finished The garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. I think I like short stories less, somehow I tend to think they are unfinished.... :blush: I started the new Rector by Rebecca Shaw, I think it is a Wild Card as Turnham Malpas doesn’t seem to exist although there is a lovely map of it: https://www.rebeccashaw.me/map-of-turnham-malpas Now dd is ill, which is not practical with exam French written within 2 weeks...

The weather is odd for the moment: one day it freezes and snows (night temperatures below 10 degrees celsius) three days later we walked in the sun with almost 15 degrees Celsius midday temperature. This was last week.

Welcome to the other side of the ocean! Almost anybody, except for elderly people, should be able to speak English to a certain degree, so I would not worry about the French. (I always use English in Brussels, my first sentence sounds something like: Je ne comprends pas Francais bien, parlez vous d’Anglais?)

This one? http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/628052-classics-which-are-the-most-uplifting/?hl=%2Buplifting&do=findComment&comment=7297586

You’re looking for this? https://www.bol.com/nl/p/bakpapier-rond-20-stuks-23-cm/9200000086152805/

West London too here! (No native speaker, holiday speaker at best :) )

Finished the age of innocense, finally a night without intterrupted sleeping...

That’s right. Dd has a kindle. First I read through an app on a pc, now on a tablet.

I always presumed that one needed to keep up with one self... And Bill Bryson is a slow read, even in my mothertongue...