Monthly Archives: May 2009

Beach hut is the way to go.

We finally met up with a local home educator, and by that I mean that there is someone else who home educates who lives within walking distance. Wow. I’m not sure we’ve ever been in that situation before. Well, I … Continue reading

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In a funk

I’m not quite sure how I’ve managed to get myself into this state, but I need to find a way to drag myself out of it. Actually, I’ve got lots of ideas about how I got here. The first trimester … Continue reading

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We built a beach

We live so far from the seaside, the poor little souls had to make their own.

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Shopping and stuff.

Yesterday we went out looking for the bits we need for next weeks not-wedding party. (It isn’t really going to be possible to tell it’s not a wedding, I suspect, Big is going as a bridesmaid, Small will be wearing … Continue reading

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The whys and hows.

Recently I blogged an article about teaching children to think and it gave rise to the following comment. never done this before but while drifting through the home ed. sites, found yours & felt compelled to write. how do you … Continue reading

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Days flashing by

The children are mainly content to amuse themselves, and I’m mainly content to let them. There are occasional bursts of what can be recognised as overtly educational activity – Big spent a while the other day choosing poems from a … Continue reading

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Who remembers this?

Where I’m from Saw it today again on Travelling to Scotland and had to go looking to see if I could find any of ours. I only found a couple though, didn’t more ppl do it?

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Not in my name.

EO has produced a pdf for the review which you can read here I would like to state for the record that I am not now a member of EO although we were during our first year or so of … Continue reading

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