Lamb Keema - Henry Stylie

H is studying India at school and one of his tasks is to produce a project over a few weeks. He settled on food. On Sunday he made a very good Lamb Keema, mostly on his own (though I had to chop the onions as he refuses to handle those)! Other than that though it was all his own work.

He borrowed my G9 and photographed the various foods that went into his curry: lamb, chickpeas, the various spices and veg etc. and asked me to take some photos of him cooking, which I duly did, but I'd already uploaded my blip at that point.

Anyway, there was so much curry that we saved half and had it again tonight. it was just as delicious.

He was disappointed I didn't blip his efforts on Sunday so I'm making up for it tonight!

Other than that, a nice day at work, though lots of unusual problems...even the one young patient I had.

And I spoke to a lovely educational psychologist from the Dyslexia Institute, who was very helpful regarding H and feels that the processes the school are putting into place sound brilliant. She feels H would definitely benefit from seeing a behavioural optometrist i.e. my colleague. I never even mentioned the fact that I was an optometrist to her but the name she pulled out of the hat was my colleague, who just happens to specialise in behavioural optometry! I feel totally vindicated in my approach to the situation now. We left it that we'd get a full optometric assessment, and try the school's processes, until after the Summer holidays, or Easter if things don't seem to be turning round at all by then, then book in for the full dyslexia assessment.

In the mean time H seems so much more relaxed and confident about his written work. Apparently he typed a story on one of the class computers today. He says he still didn't get finished but when I asked if he'd written more by typing than by writing he said, 'OH YES! I managed a WHOLE PAGE rather than my usual four lines AND I was awarded a house point!'