Category Archives: Puters!

where would we be without them? Not blogging, that’s for sure.

Quiet day, followed by measuring, patterns and art on the beach.

Posted on Mon Jun 22 2009 by Jax

Yesterday I wasn’t much up for interaction, and Tim took the children out for an hour to give me some time and space. I think they had rather a good time of it at a nearby copse of trees with … Continue reading →

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Meet Jax, the entertaining educational machine.

Posted on Wed Jun 10 2009 by Jax

As promised to the children, my alarm went off at 8 am this morning. Given that I didn’t get to sleep until well after midnight, despite being in bed before it, then woke again at 5 and did that horrid … Continue reading →

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Incidental education

Posted on Thu Apr 30 2009 by Jax

During the day, Small in particular often asks peculiar questions or indulges in brief conversations that seem like they’ve gone nowhere, but then days or weeks later crop up again in his thinking. There is no way that I can … Continue reading →

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edited highlights

Posted on Mon Apr 27 2009 by Jax

mainly because blow by blow of how dreadful I feel isn’t interesting to me, and I’m sure it isn’t interesting to you either! Small wrote a story entitled “The story of Pregnancy” – it’s only a page long, but I … Continue reading →

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Knitting and ecotech.

Posted on Tue Apr 21 2009 by Jax

Today was my deadline before my second extension for my TMA, so obviously I was frantically writing it up and trying to finish it off yesterday. :/ Wonder if I’ll ever get to a point where I don’t run my … Continue reading →

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Sunny day with added playdough.

Posted on Fri Apr 3 2009 by Jax

Once again the main focus to the day as far as the children were concerned was playdough. They played a long (approx 2 1/2 hour) game which involved them making things and selling them in their imaginary shop. Eventually they … Continue reading →

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And another day passes

Posted on Thu Apr 2 2009 by Jax

Tim and Small finished putting the curtain rail back up this morning and thus the computer/ tv ban was over, so they celebrated with a viewing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I saw a game, Harry Potter … Continue reading →

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Traumatised cat.

Posted on Thu Mar 19 2009 by Jax

When I opened the ladder up to our loft bedroom last night, I realised that the cat had once again expressed his displeasure with the move in the standard way, fortunately this time on the spare quilt rather than on … Continue reading →

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Feeling wobbly.

Posted on Thu Mar 12 2009 by Jax

Another day of removing things – Tim is now in Suffolk with a van load of our furniture and boxes and bedding (kids and I have camping mats tonight, I miss our memory foam mattress already ) Big has had … Continue reading →

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Yet more boring boxes

Posted on Mon Mar 9 2009 by Jax

Have spent another day processing boxes – Tim removed a stack to go to garage at old house, and tomorrow I must remove some of the steadily accumulating charity shop and rubbish stuff or I’m going to run out of … Continue reading →

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spinning in circles.

Posted on Fri Mar 6 2009 by Jax

Yesterday I got organised in the morning and took Tim’s car into town, drove it round the town centre three times, then gave up, parked it in a vacant space on a cross road, and carried four box loads of … Continue reading →

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the rest of the day.

Posted on Fri Feb 27 2009 by Jax

Big has been attached to the couch, reading Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. She finished it this evening, and pronounced it very sad, thus proving she’s made of sterner stuff than me, as I wept copiously She wants to … Continue reading →

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Backdating…

Posted on Wed Feb 25 2009 by Jax

Getting behind with blogging, this is the story of Monday, typed up on Tues at Merry’s, and posted from the Beans on Weds Can’t be bothered to change the date though! After the children get bored they move on to … Continue reading →

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Boredom is good for them.

Posted on Sat Feb 21 2009 by Jax

Over the last day or two, the children have started to get bored of the television and computer. This shows quite simply – they fight, which is not so good, and then they start to do other things, which is … Continue reading →

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Unsuccessful charity shop scouring

Posted on Wed Feb 18 2009 by Jax

Given the number of Harry Potters in print, I find it slightly amazing how few there are in the charity shops in this town – our only find today was Azkaban, and we already have two copies of that. Oh … Continue reading →

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Politicising the offspring.

Posted on Tue Feb 17 2009 by Jax

This afternoon Big and I have wrapped IT and civics together by sitting down to talk through and complete her response to the current review on home education. Her identifier was 1103, so the numbers are climbing steadily this week, … Continue reading →

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Yet another weekend.

Posted on Sun Feb 15 2009 by Jax

I was very tired yesterday, not least because Tim and I stayed up unfeasibly late the night before catching up on TV (As an aside I highly recommend Big Bang Theory – Season 1 [2007] especially for those of us … Continue reading →

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Fitting more in

Posted on Fri Feb 6 2009 by Jax

The children seem to have reached a stage where aimless wandering through the day is insufficient and they are both looking for something more structured to do. So I came down (late again, have stopped taking the diclofenax, would rather … Continue reading →

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Go to your room!

Posted on Thu Feb 5 2009 by Jax

Whenever I send a child to their room atm (happens a couple of times a day for Big, couple of times a week for Small) they snatch up a book/ workbook whatever, and stamp off in a huff, and forget … Continue reading →

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Losing track of the days

Posted on Wed Feb 4 2009 by Jax

The children are doing a lot of reading atm, both working on their HP books. Small is about halfway through book 1 now, and Big is racing through book 4. They’ve watched some tv, though I have noticed that the … Continue reading →

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