Monthly Archives: July 2010

Some birds for the Gallery

I love the Gallery posts but so rarely get around to compiling one and entering it (um, once so far I think?) but this week has the additional draw of there being chocolatey goodness on offer in the form of … Continue reading

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I have a small problem.

This is not me. Well, obviously it is me. But it isn’t. You see, I don’t look like that. Not in my mind’s eye. I look more like this. though possibly skinnier. And less blurry. With better lighting So where … Continue reading

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Once more, with feeling.

Sadly not a Buffy post. The serious case review into the death of Khyra Ishaq came out today. Predictably a variety of ppl are blaming home education. Let me go through this very slowly. Home education did not kill Khyra … Continue reading

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Heads up

Home education mentioned in new consultation document. Home educated pupils 80. The Government also proposes to introduce a scheme allowing local authorities to claim for funding for pupils educated at home where services are provided to these pupils. This might … Continue reading

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Quiet day needed.

Having been up way too late last night (which rather makes me wonder why I’m still up at this time) what I really needed was for the baby to keep me up all night feeding so that I’d be raring … Continue reading

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10 years in

and still making rookie mistakes. Those of you with weak stomaches or sickness phobias will want to stop reading now. Are they gone? Good. For the rest of you: if your daughter, who sleeps in a cabin bed, tells you … Continue reading

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Festival of history – Saturday

Friday morning, and indeed some of Friday afternoon, passed in a bad tempered haze of packing, carrying, putting into car, realising it wouldn’t fit, taking it out of car, repacking and so on. Not much fun. I had wanted to … Continue reading

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A bit of an excuse

for not blogging for a bit. We went away. Only for a couple of days, and without Tim at that, but I’ve discovered that going away for two days camping requires at least two days preparation, and a day or … Continue reading

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It’s that AFK Wednesday thing

We needed to be up and out really early (well for us, anyway) so obviously staying up until 1.30 was the thing to do. Sigh. but I had to back up my netbook again to send away *again* for repair … Continue reading

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Mummy blogging?

There have been times in the past when I have tried to get this blog searchable on various terms. I’ve gone for home education blog. I’ve tagged posts with Badman, home ed review, and I’ve promoted posts by explaining to … Continue reading

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Today I did…

blog copiously (as this is the second post of the day, well on the way to that target!) This is post three. I think that’s fairly copious include some pictures Coming soon. install wordpress elsewhere, while keeping notes, and write … Continue reading

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Today I shall

blog copiously (as this is the second post of the day, well on the way to that target!) include some pictures install wordpress elsewhere, while keeping notes, and write about the experience hang yesterday’s washing out. do today’s washing take … Continue reading

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Standard saturday?

Art class in the morning, so my alarm went off depressingly early at 8am. Only particularly depressing as the baby is currently making up for dropping off feeds during the day by feeding ferociously at night, so I am tired. … Continue reading

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Life in between

the cyber excitement Life blogging has been a bit thin on the ground here recently. I do apologise. Both to any readers who read for the real bits and to future me, looking back to try to remember this time … Continue reading

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Cybermummy – the stat and influence session.

As I said in my earlier post, I didn’t go to cybermummy expecting to learn much about the technicalities of blogging. I didn’t think anyone would teach me much about platforms or tech, or even really seo, though I was … Continue reading

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Cybermummy and cyberbaby :)

I went to cybermummy I have so much to say about it that I’ve decided to separate it up into several shorter posts, which also means you can pick and choose which bits you want to read. Aren’t I thoughtful … Continue reading

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When you say wordpress, what do you mean?

Not a proper cybermummy post yet, but one I promised various ppl there, so I’m getting it online quickly I am sure, once upon a time, I had a post about the relative merits of blogging platforms. Goodness knows that … Continue reading

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