Category: Book Club

Yes, as the head of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, Dr Ken Boston, insisted, the curriculum will still contain the essentials: grammar, Shakespeare, the British Empire and algebra. bbc I guess grammar is pretty essential – I use it everyday, and wince when I receive emails from colleagues who don’t quite get it. Not just…

When I collected Lily from uni she gave me a book to read to Big and Small. She said it was her favourite book when she was little. The book is a collection of short stories set amongst the animal inhabitants of a deserted house and garden. We finished reading it tonight. Big was very…

just became even more popular here. Great article from Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game, among others. HT to O’DonnellWeb for the original link. It’s been a good weekend. Unfortunately I had to go into the office on Friday, so it didn’t start quite as early as I’d hoped it might, but when I…

I cannot remember not being able to read. I know that I could read by the time I started school (I went a term early so this would have been while I was still only four), the reason I know this is that one of my first memories of school is of being told to…

when I’m down. This week has evaporated so quickly, and our holiday seems a lifetime ago. Different ppl, different place, different time, different world. I miss it, and am slightly disconcerted at how swiftly I slip back in to a mock corporate mentality. Nevertheless, I negotiated a slightly different working pattern for the next few…

Will be back with a review when it’s finished – anyone else watching it now? And I’m back 🙂 Well, got to say that was pretty much what was expected. (Why did I keep wanting to describe it as Extreme breastfeeding??) The program focussed on 4 different women, two of whom weren’t completely British (I…

Following a discussion on a list somewhere, someone suggested that many ppl rely on Hesfes as their introduction to home ed and the home ed community. This seems odd to me on many levels. Are there really ppl who go to Hesfes who’ve never met any other home educators? Hesfes doesn’t begin to represent the…

Nic doesn’t love me any more. 🙁

We made it to breastfeeding group, although the soft play area was shut off which was a disappointment. Dd behaved well and ate well, apart from the irritating tendency to hide under the table and leap out shouting boo while I was trying to persuade ds to feed. Then we went off to ds’s photo…