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Shh… BANG!
Theatre trip with the little ones today, to meet up with several other home educating families and see Peut-Etre Theatre Shh… BANG! I was impressed. Really enjoyable show, actors so expressive and the use of movement and sound was incredibly imaginative. Great to see a roomful of happy engaged small children (and, for that…
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Weekend snippets Feb 14 2016
{Chopping} brambles. Is that gardening or ungardening? Whatever it was I appear to have overdone it slightly, as I’ve got rather sore legs tonight. {watching} toy story as our family film night choice. Fab to so easily have access to such classic films via Netflix. I had forgotten the moments of mild peril which caused…
Weekend snippets February 7th 2016
{watching} The Killing on Netflix. While cuddling up under the warmest snuggliest blanket ever. {listening} to Country music. Always. And arguing over the lyrics. Obviously. {walking} in the woods. Loads of people there today, and lots of signs of Spring. No bluebells yet though. {throwing out} a whole bunch of cheap charity biros. And wondering…
Playmobil easter eggs – the mermaid, the pirate and the boy with a ball.
I know it was only just Christmas, but it’s already coming up on Easter (the joys of movable festivals). If you’re looking for something a little more lasting (and a little less over packaged), I highly recommend Playmobil easter eggs instead of the traditional chocolate variety. We reviewed some last year, and I loved the…
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,…
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.)
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…
Dare
I dare to dream, plan, draw, paint, photograph, design, crochet, fail, frog and try again. I dare to write. I dare to be. https://instagram.com/p/BAFJTWVtpyp/ And then I dared to be on the television, talking about home education, and why I think rote learning of timetables and yet more testing is unnecessary. Which was interesting. Must…
2015 Snippets
{remembering} bits of a year. There have been some big changes. {Big} joined cadets, reenacted 1920s without us, and started school. There were probably some other bits, but those stand out. She’s raced through the qualifications at cadets, mainly because she has only missed a couple of training nights since she started – one because…
