Katy’s rambles about life

Well, I think the answer to the poorly goldfish was in the water quality. I swapped out the rather pathetic foam from inside the filter for some that was actually fine enough to trap a bit of stuff and hey presto! much, much clearer water almost over night and a very clogged up filter. I’ve been needing to clear the filter daily up til today so there must have been an awful lot of **** in the water! The second dose of goldfish medcine pretty much cleared up the fluffy fin and I’ve got a different stuff for using at water changes - Kirsty, in case you can get it it’s called Stress Coat and it gets rid of teh chlorine and puts stuff into the water to help keep them healthy at the same time. it looks expensive but for the tanks we have you only need drops so it lasts ages.

The guinea pigs are getting bigger and tamer by the day. They both let me pick them up for a cuddle today which is lovely. Becca is a bit wary round them in that she is very happy for me to hold them whilst she strokes them and doesn’t want to have one on her lap. Actually I’m happy with that as it is less likely she will get one out without me arround and have it get away from her!!!

There has been a section on Study Dog that has been the cause of more attackes of the vapours than the whole rest of the thing put together… the bit about multi-sound consonants. So today, rather than trying to help her “hear” the different sounds (which is just not happening) I explained the “rules” like if c comes before i or e it’s likely to be a soft sound more like the name of the letter than it’s sound. She (sort of) got it. With lots of hand holding, reminding of the rules she did all 3 parts of it. To be fair some of it was a walk over for her and needed no help from me at all but getting past the soft and hard c and g sounds was such a relief!!!!

Later on she brought 1 of her word cards to me and read it then asked to play Go Fish with the cards so we did and she did okay with the reading. then she did several pages of the Starfall “reading journal” and did some lovely writing both tracing and independently.

Other highlights include her sitting transfixed by “Eurika” on CBBC and her doing really well with the shop game on the cebeebies website.

Tim’s wages now 9 days late…. getting bored with this….