Category: Home Ed Life
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Perspectives
It’s all about your point of view. The same flower, the same morning, the same camera. Just from two different points of view. To me one looks warm and one cold. One could be morning and one evening. Or one summer and one winter. No, both today, taken just a minute or so apart,…
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Ginger bread and butter pudding
I have a habit of haunting the reduced shelves in the local coop. Recently they’ve been having some great deals on milk – we get through a lot anyway, but whenever there’s a big bottle (6 pints!) I bring it home and make some kind of milk pudding. Last night I grabbed a reduced price…
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Sun dogs and sandcastles
I hate clock change time. I’m not good with sudden change, and this time of the year it seems to just pile up – one minute it’s summer (beginning of this month we were on the beach in T shirts), next it’s practically winter – it was 2 degrees this morning. 2! Best way to…
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Opening a creative circle
I have written stories for as long as I can remember. I’ve never joined a writer’s group. I’ve started drawing and painting and general art. But I’m not sure about the local art club. And there’s knitting and sewing and crochet and spinning, costume to make and felt to, well, felt. Creativity is something that…
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Playing with light, and doodling
I love experimenting with my camera, which is not something I expected to be saying here. Today I was scrabbling around in the garden, trying to get the angle to get a shot against the sinking sun. I think it went pretty well. Then I finally got around to doing a sketch for sketchalong. Which…
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Excerpt
She walked the boundary. Once she would have run it, but these days, she was lucky if her knee would support a brisk walk. She carried a stick just in case. It was useful for beating back the brambles and bindweed. As she walked she looked to left and right, and sometimes, flashes of memory…
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Sketch on a Sunday
and a Monday and a Tuesday… I’m trying to remember to do a quick sketch every day. Here’s today’s effort.
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Education in the garden with Miles Kelly/ The Wildlife trusts handbooks
A few weeks ago I picked up several rather lovely Miles Kelly/ wildlife trusts handbooks in Lidl. I got British Birds, British Wildflowers and Trees Handbook (British Handbooks) (amazon affiliate link), and British wildlife. They’re not just fact books, although that would be pretty good in itself. Instead they’re structured as handbooks, with spaces for…
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Potty training no 4 with Huggies Pull-Ups
Tigerboy isn’t quite ready for potty training. I keep trying, but given that his preference for doing no 2 (sorry!) is hiding in a corner in best “I’m not pooing” pose (see above), I don’t think we’re quite there. He will use the potty, but I find that we often degenerate into a Joyce Grenfell-esque…