Take a look around at your nearest and dearest friends. What do you have in common with them? Probably some interests that drew you together. Perhaps you are neighbours. Maybe you met them via your children’s interests – I’ve met two parents through Brownies and swimming since we’ve moved here that we’ve spent time with [...]
Yesterday I mentioned making Lord Woolton’s pie, working from a recipe in Wartime Cookbook that we got out of the library. Then last night when I was preparing tea (nothing exciting, chinese chicken bits from the coop with stir fry veg and rice) I noticed an elderly looking book on the bookshelf.
[For anyone relatively new [...]
last post was about Friday. Since then:
soa rolled over twice during a nappy change, and is becoming increasingly mobile on the floor. She also managed to wriggle herself around in the cot and pick up toys that I thought were out of her reach. Am loving watching her figure things out.
Big and I have been [...]
Most of the day got away from me today, but somehow I managed to retrieve the latter part of the afternoon and we headed out for fruit and to pop to the library. I should have known that popping and the library are mutually exclusive concepts where we’re concerned, but we did manage to leave [...]
‘cos I want to win it!
Sunnymama has yet another fab giveaway, this time a lactivist Mummy milk rocks Tshirt or bag. That T shirt would look fabulous on soa, don’t you agree?
Forget about the issue of home education. That is just a smokescreen designed to cover another calamitous failure by a social services department already under government special measures because its protection of vulnerable children is deemed inadequate.
For once this is not a quote from a home educating blogger, this is a mainstream journalist. He says [...]
I think I forgot to mention last week that we made it to the opticians and Big has near perfect vision with a hint of long sightedness while Small is slightly more long sighted but not enough to do anything about it as he isn’t reporting any problems. So that was good. Oh, and soa [...]
Started the day by saving £15 a month for the next year I’d ordered a new O2 sim through TopCashBack who were offering £100 on 12 month sim only deals for that week. It finally arrived so I rang up to get a PAC from T-mobile, who instead offered me a £5 a [...]
there’s been loads happening here this week.
Monday is Beavers, can’t remember what went on before it. Kids are going through another phase of long involved imaginative games in their bedroom and then today, the garden, which I do love to see.
Tuesday may have been the day they rediscovered tutpup. It was also swimming lesson day, [...]
It’s short, but hopefully to the point.
This case is being reported as a child withdrawn from school to be home educated and then being starved to death. Factually this is inaccurate – Khyra Ishaq was withdrawn in December, but no attempt was made to deregister her for months – this is not home education, this [...]
To me.
That’s the way it’s supposed to be. I have a rough idea of what a child can do at each stage of their life, and that’s enough. I also know my children well enough to know when I can worry – Small was so very capable at nearly 2 that his lack of [...]
Been a while since those lyrics came close to applying
Quiet day. Not sure how many times soa fed during the night – I did look at the clock at 9.08 and think ooh, I’ll just have another 5 minutes as she’s dozed off again, and the next time I woke up it was [...]
Did the vax thing. This involved a very brisk walk to the doctors after soa decided to fill her nappy just as we were about to leave the house. Oh, and a tantrum on my part when Small refused to get himself organised despite a countdown to leaving time. Not one of my best moments [...]
Spent some time last night trying to work out crochet pattern for Big as she’s now got two huge balls of yarn for blanket making. Not sure I’m quite there yet.
Breakthrough at dinner time when I asked Small if he wanted to try the carrot soup – “yes, it’s good to try new things.” Who [...]
Am not managing to make it to keyboard to empty my brain except in very short bursts, so here’s a quickie one hand version of today before I fall any further behind.
Glorious sunshine, though I suspect the temperature didn’t get much above freezing. Note to self – 1 3/4 hours not enough to get these [...]
It’s time for the second of the February weekly giveaways over at Sunnydaytodaymama – pop over and enter if you are interested in the book Love and Kisses.
and listen to the satnav.
I was so proud of myself yesterday. I got up, got children moving, had shower, breakfast, made packed lunch and was out of the house so that we would only be a couple of minutes late to music. (Obviously I’d have been prouder if we’d been on time, but hey, there [...]
As mentioned earlier, we got a really good haul of non fiction books from our local Red Cross shop on Sunday. They are forming a large part of our current curriculum so I thought I’d list them out here for the record.
What Do You Know About Science and Technology?: Over 101 Questions and [...]
These seem to be rather in vogue atm.
Sunnydaytodaymama is giving away a beautiful batik frog wall hanging, just comment to enter.
Debs at Pipistrelle Crochet design has a giveaway for a lavender heart, and Annkrozeika at Top Floor treasures has entered the One World, One Heart blog giveaway.
Gosh, so many things to enter! Makes me think [...]
Was reading around the blogring the other day, as you do, and I came across an interesting post on Honour and Inspiration.
This was the bit that leapt out at me:
Okay, we don’t have a car to get rid of, we never fly, we’re vegetarian and we try to grow as much of our own food [...]
