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Saturday snippets 31 July 2021
Trying – to build a blogging habit. I have two draft posts from this week that I haven’t managed to complete. Sigh. Ignoring – last week’s todo list. I can roll it over. That’s a bujo thing, right? Struggling – with a feeling of extreme deja vu with this home education inquiry /review stuff. What…
Saturday Snippets 24 July 2021
{pondering} getting back to blogging. Partly for me, partly for reasons, partly to see if I can make a living out of if, but should that be here and if not where and round and round in circles I go… {playing} State of Survival, a zombie game on my phone. With people all round the…
what do you need to know to appreciate beauty?
When you’re scrolling through twitter, and you come across a discussion on education and creativity and you hear… “we can’t think creatively in the abstract, it’s a seductive proposition, but it just doesn’t work that way..[some stuff about needing to have a deep understanding of science to grasp climate change]…similarly, take the national gallery we…
BBC Woman’s Hour Tuesday 9th March – Electing to home school.
Listen again here on BBC sounds (you need a BBC login) From 33.55 ish. My comments in italics. Presenter Emma Barnett. Be aware that incoherencies and typos will be due to my inability to type as fast as people speak. Emma: Now, children all across the UK are returning to school this week but an…
Home education in a pandemic – where we’re at.
It’s not the same as home education outside of a pandemic. Which is only to be expected. But things I’ve learnt over the years of home educating 4 children are still coming in handy. Things like if something doesn’t work, change it. So we’re flexing a lot, dropping things that don’t work for us, and…
Habits and patterns
I don’t know how easy other people find it to get into habits. With me there’s a constant balancing act of trying to build a pattern of behaviour without getting trapped into that pattern. So if I get back into daily blogging, that will become a challenge that won’t make life easier, so it’s almost…
Saturday snippets 16 January 2021
{remembering} on this day, 21 years ago, I became a parent for the first time. Today is the first birthday with that offspring not here, but we zoomed together to make cinnamon buns, and had breakfast with her sitting on a screen at the table. {playing} my zombie game. I play one of these settlement…
