Matthew enjoys country life, surfing the Internet,
world music ( & Dire Straits), woodwork, DIY,
homeschooling, looking after family pets, gardening,
bushcraft, football, and boxing.
His ambition is to be a good father (which He is:) )
reading, mums net community.
She started a discussion list `Mamuska` for Polish
speaking Mums.
Gloria-9 is our little *sensible girl*.She is very warm
and caring. Great big sister. She enjoys singing, drawing(!!!),
making things and playing in the garden, ballet, bike riding,
helping out in the kitchen, dressing up, reading and preparing
`special surprises`. Her greatest passions are horses and animals in general and she would like to become a wild animals vet(?) in the future
and pass to history as `a greatest wildlife saver`.
At the moment she looks after 2 family cats Sophia and Maisy and keeps them away for Hollow the hamster and George the cockatiel.
Her plan for the family is to live on an animal farm.
Her favourit stories are `Watership Down` and Animals of Farthing Wood` and she is also(along with her sisters) collecting figures from the above.
Ella -8 is the *energetic one*. Very sensible, sensitive and rather quiet, yet she is a guru for the younger girls and they look up at her
and copy her in nearly everything.
At the moment (for rather long time now) she is at the stage
of **Big WHY** and `HOW questions as well as `what_it_means??`
She is very caring and selfless little person.
for hours and hours. Her favourit theme are animals (rabbits, dogs etc)
Lily -7,would join in with her big sisters but at other
times she would rather enjoy Ollie`s or her brothers` company.
She is very smart and verbal for her age which is probably the effect of her big sisters influence.
She loves singing and joining *The Trio* to give some
spontaneous family performances.They are brilliant at it.
Lily is a great performer and a very promissing comic.;)
Along with Ella, she is making up little songs and sketches to perform.
Apart from this, she is very particular little person with great love for tiding up and organizing things.
Olive -6, is a very outspoken little person, with plenty of ideas
and a very strong will to carry them out.
She loves drawing, making clay models, looking after animals.
Her latest additions are wormery and `antery`
Very flexible and strong physically. Amazingly eloquent as usual.
She is showing some artistic talent, already having her first
achievements in this area.
She is also very quick at learning to play music and she can easily
pick up
Archie- 4 years old- is a very determined little fellow who absolutely adores his baby brother.Very eloquent and with a great sense of humour.
He is into cars and tools at the moment. Helping out Daddy with DIY around the house and showing Merlin how things should be done.
Last summer he has mastered bike riding (within hours) and now he is really good at it. He loves being outdoor, climbing trees, looking after animals and recently drawing and `building houses`(out of sofa cushions and blankets indoor or sticks and boards outdoor.
He is also into `nature` and would spend hours looking for worm, birds, newts etc (as he says, looking for nature)
Merlin 1, very busy, outspoken little lad with a truly excellent
ear to sound (which means he can repeat everything).
He also copies his big brother and sisters and they willingly teach him all the new tricks.
He recently unveiled his greatest passion-The BALL (which was also one of his first words) Any ball really- from a little marble (or even smaller metal balls) to XXL exercise ball which he can kick and follow for hours! He also loves watching with Daddy all the ball sports ( Football, snooker) as well as eating any ball shaped food (cherry tomatoes, grapes etc)