The Blog of the Frog

Ok, here comes the Friday before last (at last!), the 23rd.

I went up to Selworthy at 12:30pm for the Leavers Service. It was playtime, so two of them took me for a walk round the playground. Then one of the others took me for another walk round! At 2pm we all went into the hall for the service. As it was the last day of term before the leavers bit the headmaster presented some of them with trophies, one of the boys in Di’s class got one, as did the twins. They were thrilled with them!
Then 5 that were leaving were all given their \”folders of achievement\” and a little present (which I think was an England watch) as well as a bouquet of flowers for their respective mothers.

After the service we all went back to the classroom for a drink, and everyone chatted and said goodbye. Phil introduced mum and I to Robert’s parents and we exchanged phone numbers so we could meet up in the holidays.

When everybody had gone we helped Di, Di, Phil and Jayne pack up the remainder of the classroom (see 23rd’s entry about the chairs in wheelbarrows ;)) before coming home.

She died…I would have posted sooner but I couldn’t bare to write it here, to be archived forever. I expected it – she’d gone downhill quite fast in 24 hours – but it doesn’t make it any easier, just less of a shock.

I have quite a lot more to write about other things but it seems wrong to do it in the same post as this, so I’ll leave it for now.

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together….

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Meg is very poorly, if she continues looking as she is now I don’t think she’ll make it through the night 🙁

So I’m rather preoccupied at the moment

More coming soon 😆

See?! I told you! I fully intended to do it yesterday but I was far too tired so I didn’t. So I’ll stay a day behind and try and cover today tomorrow 😕

So Wednesday – fun (sports) day. Arrived at about half past 12 and had lunch outside, saw a couple of the kids that’ll be in tge class next year. There are 5 leaving and 5 new ones coming up, though one of them has been joining in with some of their activities for a few months to see how he would get on. All boys, though only one of the leavers is a girl anyway.

At about 2:00 everyone went down to the field (my first sports day in about 6 years!) for the action to start. It was done by classes (there are 7 and they’re only small – from about 4 or 5 (the severest) to 8 or 9 in size) and each class devised their own.

One of the classes (all were in wheelchairs) had a race where you had to go over some wood, then over some plastic cake cases, through some \”washing\” (blue plastic sheets hung on string) and under a parachute (being held up) and one of the people pushing nearly made the child fall out of the chair!

I think some of the teachers were rather overenthusastic with their courses and didn’t do risk assesments 😉 There was another and they had to put a chair in a wheelbarrow and run back with it. We were waiting for someone to fall over and impale themselves on a chair leg! A couple did fall over but luckily missed the legs 😮

Why were they carrying chairs in wheelbarrows, you ask? Well four of the classes are in temporary classrooms, which they’re knocking down over the holidays to replace them with…
identical temporary classrooms! (perfectly logical, of course)
And one of the rooms is a double one with two classes in, one in each half. So they did one together and the idea was they were moving the things out of one class and into another – thus the chair moving. There was more to it than that – there was a bit before the chair moving too, had everyone completely confused.
Well, at least everyone around me was confused and the head came over to where I was and said he didn’t understand either!

Then one of the classes had one a bit like ours except they didn’t have to keep coming back, they put on sunglasses, sunhats, arm bands, rubber ring and then a bucket of water which they had to carry down the last bit – most were in wheelchairs so it was a bit wet…

Ours was a relay, you were meant to run to the trowel, bring it back, run back and get a wellington boot, run back, run and get a flowerpot, run back, then run and get a flower and run back. Only despite having practised it 3 times in the morning only about 3 of them actually did it correctly 😆 Most of them just ran all the way down picking up everything at once then came back, one of them did it correctly (with a bit of assistance from a couple of the assistants) but picked up as many of everything as he could carry 😕

It was all incredibly entertaining! After that they had a few races, 11 and under (or under 11s – can’t remember which), 16 and under and 16-60, everyone who took part got ice cream 😀

Despite looking very threatening and showering a bit during lunch the weather was lovely during the afternoon. Dry, not too hot and not cold!

Last weeks of term are excellent 😉 The only bad thing is it means it’s almost the summer holidays 😆

No matter how hard I try I always get side tracked whenever I want to update you!

Monday was excellent, they arrived at about half past eleven (I think) and then some came and did some gardening – you can actually see my pond again now! 😆 – and the others talked to my piggies and played about a bit.

Then we had the BBQ – mum has mastered the art of cooking 36 sausages at once on a small barbeque without buring any 😉 – and sat/lay around and chatted till the bus came to collect them at about 2:30. The weather even stayed nice!

Yesterday we took one of my guinea pigs to the vet, she’s lost a lot of weight. The vet couldn’t find anything wrong so she gave her baytril and probiotic powder and we’ll see how she goes…

I would say I’ll tell you about today tomorrow but if I do then you can almost guarantee I won’t 😉 So I shall hope to, though it might be the day after or the day after that.