Tolii’s trip to Dollin Printing has been featured in the local newspaper.  This is hot on the heals of him and Tosha in the local rags for the Galli exhibition of paintings inspired by Watership Down.
You can read the article here:

Designs on success as two win card contest (Andover Advertiser)
Designs on success as two win [...]

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This week, Tolii was able to read his first story book to us!
His first book at school was “Oh Floppy”, which had two words on every page…”Oh Floppy”, “No Floppy”, “Bad Floppy”, …you get the idea.
Well, this book actually really pissed him off.  You see, one of his classmates was reading from a book that [...]

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Today was the day to watch Tolii’s winning Christmas Card design be turned into an actual Christmas card!
We met up with the other winner, Alice and her family, at Whitchurch’s John Dollin Printing Services Ltd. where we were greeted by John Young, the general manager.  The school’s headteacher, Sarah Peters, also came along to learn [...]

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Tolii’s Christmas drawing won the school’s competition to become its official Christmas card!
All of us are invited up to Dollins Printing next week to watch it being made.  It will then be available to everyone at the school, and around town.
Congratulations, Tolii!

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If you thought you were good a math…how about learning Arthur Benjamin’s tips for squaring a 5 digit number in your head…

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Tolii has all this week off from school for mid-term break.  He is not pleased.
Katya took Monday and Tuesday off to spend time with him (actually, to do many urgent household chores which were moderately entertaining for Tolii).
But now he is heading into days with Baba, and neither can speak each other’s language well.  Worse, [...]

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Tolii went off to school this morning!  It wasn’t really his first time there, since he went for story time in the spring as a way to get familiar with the place.  However, it was the start of his new “career” in education…
Tolii dressed up in his new school uniform - wow he’s a real [...]

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After 10 and a half months of closure, the footpath bridge over the river Test near the Whitchurch Church of England Primary School, along Town Mill Lane, has finally reopened!
Its just in time for Tolii to use it on the way to school.

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I just got back the digitized version of all of my dad’s Super 8mm cine film!
What does that mean?
It means we can watch films from my childhood in the 1970s without having to set up a projector!

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Today was Tosha’s first swim lesson. His lesson at 10:20am at St. Swithun’s School’s pool was at about the same time as Tolii, Angus and Rupert’s lesson. And, Katie joined the swim school this term too!
All this and you’d think things would go, well, swimmingly.
Daddy and mummy decided to see if just one [...]

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Tolii and hist friend Luke hopped, skipped and jumped their way down form Oak Tree Nursery with Daddy this afternoon - they were off to the first story time at Whitchurch Primary School.
They met up with George at the school - today was his 4th birthday - we all wished him a happy birthday.
A quick [...]

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Tolii and Tosha met some of their friends and had a very good time at the Whitchurch primary school’s family fun evening tonight. Tolii loved the bouncy castle and getting his face painted. Tosha loved to chase balloons and play with Joshua!

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