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    ^ perhaps take Nige on. Post up yer art work kids cmon

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    Prag, I'd green you with a complementary comment about your kids etc, but in light of you mentioning that you don't read them, reputation ... I won't

    Great work with them.

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    Chitty, good idea for a thread.

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    Some great ideas and info all, keep them coming.

    Day 2 of isolation here involved a 2 hour cycle, a 1 hour dog walk, 4 hours of English class work and finally a game of Monopoly that has just ended in world war 3.
    Accusations of cheating and favouritism
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    Everyone's back on their screens now, me included.
    Its been a long day

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    It is adversarial is monopoly, always created arguements. Whatever you do don't introduce them to risk

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    My daughter loves chess and I really encouraged it until she started beating me
    I feel your pain!

    She's beaten me after her 8th game.

    Time to crack open the cards and have a game of Rummy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pragmatic View Post
    Get them to learn an instrument. No lock-down here but the kids playing outside are few and far between. So my kids did this tuther day.



    Outstanding Prag, that's the way forward.

    This self isolation is turning into a positive.

    @ Chez Chitty we have gathering dust, the following instruments.

    Trumpet
    Guitar
    Ukelale
    Recorder
    Drum Kit
    Violin
    Electric Organ
    a few more i'm sure.

    in years to come when they look back, they can say i learnt to play a musical instrument whilst i was self isolating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mandaloopy View Post
    Teach them to cook
    Some on here would class that as child abuse

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    Teach them bushcraft, survival skills, and tactical knife-fighting.
    Don't forget the 2" Bruce Lee punch

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    Cosmic yoga is great for younger kids. Available on YouTube.

    We've been filming music videos, science experiments etc.
    Cheers for that, shall check it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Scrabble, Monopoly? A good 500-1000 piece puzzle. Make a pizza from scratch?

    Repeat if it works.
    From a voice I'd trust.

    For funks sakes if it works. I'd give you my chitty chitty bang bang how to get away but that has been derailed as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    ^ perhaps take Nige on. Post up yer art work kids cmon
    No offence to Nige, but my daughters art work is in the Premier league.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fishlocker View Post
    From a voice I'd trust.

    For funks sakes if it works. I'd give you my chitty chitty bang bang how to get away but that has been derailed as well.
    No worries Fish, i'll fix it up...


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    Sun was shining today so outside it was...
    Back to basics, dog loved it...
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    If the weather was this good all the time, then we could go camping and have some proper picturesque isolation in the Highlands of Scotland.

    Trouble is we'll set up camp and come down with the Virus.

    Better off staying home for now...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    No offence to Nige, but my daughters art work is in the Premier league.
    What are you saying? Not that I could help.

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    Just popped out to get some supplies, looks like Dill has visited the chicken section.

    Listening to Radio 5 live and had Carol Vorderman talking about her Pearson Maths tutorial which are normally £2 / week but during this time when kids are on quarantine Pearson are offering it free.

    Now i haven't gone on to look at it but Vord the Board is alright in my books. She did say they had high sign up volumes and as such they were having to take the server offline a couple of times to cope with the sign on backlog. I assume but don't know if those outside the UK are offered it free.

    For those like Chitty, Dill, Lulu or Prag et al it looks like a good free source.

    https://www.themathsfactor.com/

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    Here's me daughter having her online music lesson...



    This is a major imposition on family life and I now have to crawl along the floor behind her while lessons are on... or else actually put some clothes on.

    The school has had to issue some guidelines for the online lessons, as kids were sitting on their beds in pyjamas, munching away on bags of crisps. The school wants kids dressed properly and not eating!

    We've settled into some kind of routine... 7am dog walk, breakfast for daughter and then online lessons start at 8am. A lunchtime swim livens her up, and then after the day has finished another swim, street dog feeding and some other stuff. Today she started painting un-prompted, which was great. In between lessons we just take pictures of Dan, one of our dogs!



    We've been trying to find some talents after watching Pragmatic's wonderful video. The daughter can already say her name in burps, but that's about it. I showed her how to make bubbles in the pool today, but she wasn't very impressed.

    To be honest, my life is just the same with this self-isolating. The only difference is no school runs morning and afternoon, which is great.

    But what about a few months down the road... no work, no income and no escape?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    finally a game of Monopoly that has just ended in world war 3.
    I ignored buying and renting malarkey.

    Always the banker.

    Initial smiles when loans were handed out turned into howls when the "players" were unable to meet their repayment calls.

    Oh what fun we had illustrating the facts of over-borrowing on a fixed income and advantages of cash savings.

    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    don't introduce them to risk
    Monopoly is "risk management".
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    Good stuff Chitty.

    Gonna have to find stuff to do here, also planning to get out for a drive every day to someplace we can walk around some jungle.


    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    in years to come when they look back, they can say i learnt to play a musical instrument whilst i was self isolating.
    Some real Mancs said that before. The Happy Mondays about Maggie putting them on the dole straight out of school.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    I feel your pain!

    She's beaten me after her 8th game.
    Never let up on them Chitty...




    3 times round the table with your pants down, back in my day for getting the brush

    Taught her a couple of card games today too, Fish and rummy. Tomorrow will introduce her to Texas hold em and try and pull some more of her pocket money back.

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    A blast from the past that she got walloped on. She'll learn

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    Loser gets to be the dolphin







    If Carlsberg made dolphins...

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    ^Into your hoarded Carlsberg stash already.?

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    A few hours home schooling today and an hours bike maintenance then PlayStation time.
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    Chit - Double tap the diddy pics and enlarge em. Are the winks too old for Carol Vorderman and her Maths thing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    Chit - Double tap the diddy pics and enlarge em. Are the winks too old for Carol Vorderman and her Maths thing?
    Will look into that cheers,if we run out of set work.
    Believe me there's a lot to get through.

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