earthsea

Our very small, very local home ed group went to see Tales from Earthsea yesterday courtesy of National Schools Films Week (link deactivated for demanding passwords for just showing it!) – do like a bit of anime, us. There was one school in with us – primary 4-7s. It was a bit of a shame for them as they hadn’t realised that the film was in Japanese with subtitles. One of the teachers approached us to ask if we had known and told us that many of their kids couldn’t read – rather upfront and honest to a home ed group I thought! I think they complained, as the manager was looking very down in the mouth as we left and told us that ’something always goes wrong on NFSW’. However we really enjoyed it – right up Daniel’s street with wonderfully animated dragons. The schoolkids kept laughing loudly at strange moments, like when someone died or was hurt – it seemed like a peer pressure thing to me as one would start and then it went round the crowd. Our kids were slightly baffled at it – Charlotte claims she doesn’t remember what school was like… (I’m sure she does really). The teachers were busy playing with their mobiles and chatting throughout the film

We visited Provost Skene’s House afterwards. They had a good display of some of the finds from a recent excavation of a St. Nicholas Kirk - bones diagnosed with allsorts of nasties.

I loved the benches in there when I was a child, by Robert “Mouse” Thompson. Was interested to see they still make them and got rather excited, thinking they would be nice for the house… until I saw the price list

Just done a good bit of festive shopping at the book people… also ordered a good sounding grammar set. Prices more in our range

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