Author: Jax Blunt
Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy Never Let Me Go at Amazon (affiliate) In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms…
The death of Dylan Seabridge – home education in the news.
The last couple of days home education has featured on several radio shows and BBC news because of a leaked report into the death of a child in Wales in 2011. The case is tragic. Dylan Seabridge died of scurvy (although apparently his parents dispute that) without contact with medical services. There *was* a family…
Art on a Friday
Friday evening is swimming club which makes for a long day for small people, so I usually try to keep it fairly low key activity wise. Today we fitted a lot in though, starting with some painting with Tigerboy before his siblings even got up. Smallest was slightly aggrieved he’d got to start without her,…
Animal adaptations – home education at Colchester Zoo
Colchester Zoo is our local zoo, if you can refer to something 40 minutes drive away as local. We’ve only been once before, as guests of First News when we had a fabulous amphibians experience. Then just last week I learnt via facebook that they were offering (free) home education sessions, targeted to age group,…
Still here
The sun is still setting And rising. And there are days in between. I keep putting one foot in front of each other, trying to focus on each moment, and knowing, this too will pass. (I’m OK. But I don’t have a lot of energy outside of focusing on staying OK. Back soon.)
Saturday snippets 9 January 2016
{watching} x+y on Netflix. Probably better without the commentary from Small – have asked him to write it down instead, but he seems reluctant to do so. Classic autistic savant character which is kind of annoying – we aren’t all mathematical geniuses. If we were, I’d understand rather more of what is going on 😉 …
Happy Farm from beleduc.
Today’s home education activity – a bit of game playing. Happy Farm was one of Tigerboy’s Christmas presents, it’s just at the right level for him in terms of counting, taking turns and swapping pieces. It doesn’t take too long to play and is a very beautiful and tactile set made of wood. About the…
Fun with felt at home education group
First meet of the year, a workshop run by a felting expert. Now, I’m reasonably familiar with felt after my Kentwell experience, but I’m never going to pass up on the chance to work with an expert, and this turned out to be great fun. Smallest designed a picture, I just love the way the…
Bella Broomstick by Lou Kuenzler.
Today I’m very pleased to welcome Lou Kuenzler to the blog, with a guest post: Why a witch? My new funny series Bella Broomstick is about a young witch who is so bad at magic, she is expelled from the Magic Realm and sent off in disgrace to the Person World to be fostered by…
What do you do if you don't have a passion?
I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently. We’re told to find our passion and follow it, find a way to love our work, or turn what we love into a career, commit, dive in, give it all you’ve got. What if you don’t have just one passion? What if you are interested in lots…
