Category: Home Ed Life
Carnival of differences – a request for posts.
As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been blogging and tweeting a lot about the spartacus report and wrb (Welfare Reform Bill). I’d like to come at the whole disability awareness and benefit change thing from a different angle though, and I’d like to hold a blog carnival. I want to host a carnival of differences. I’d…
That creative challenge…
A little while ago I set myself a creative challenge. First of all I had to buy some dpns (double pointed needles) the local charity shop came through there, with three different sets for £2.40. Bargain. So I tried with some handy acrylic yarn. But really I wanted to use something special – like this…
Not quite a resolution…more of a challenge!
but I want to spend more time crafting and creating. I want to challenge myself creatively. I want to design items and make them, write patterns and share them, learn new techniques and broaden my horizons. And I’ve chosen a starting point. The technique is icord as shown in this video and the project is…
Another Family Film Night – with Crocodile dundee
Today I have been stretching my brain, and almost remembering what it’s like to work for a living. I’ve been poking at a problem or two on and off for weeks now, and today I sat down and spent several hours at it. It felt good to tussle with something other than what was for…
Popcorn, The Princess Bride, Pizza – a perfect Family Film Night.
I’ve spent today decluttering in the grand style again. I haven’t actually made it as far as any of the black sacks in the livng room yet, which is rather depressing, but I’ve now gone through two thirds of the cupboard space in our bedroom, sorting it so that there is actually room for storing…
Family Quest, Bananagrams and a competition…
Way back in spring this year I was thrilled to be invited to become a Lead Mummy blogger on Three‘s On the Go Mums campaign. I was given a phone and a mifi, went to London for the kickoff event, and then really enjoyed a morning with some bloggy and real life friends designing an…
The Fellowship of the Ring – Family Film Night
Grotty dull day here yesterday – it barely seemed to get light. I managed to get a bit more tidying done, which had the adverse side affect of clearing a path to the craft shelves, so I then spent lots of time removing unsuitable craft items from the toddler. Going to have to do some…
For today's home education activity: punctuation resources.
we shall mostly be studying punctuation. Skillswise on BBC have a good factsheet explaining commas And then I’ve found a KS2 Bitesize activity to explore what’s been learnt. [Edited to remove flash game but add in link to relevant place – hadn’t realised it was making my blog play music, so sorry!] Hoping that will…
Too quiet to be silent.
I don’t seem to have taken many pictures recently. I’ve been too busy doing nothing much, with a side helping of feeling pathetic. There has been a fair bit of extra sleeping, and a serious amount of pretty much everything avoidance. All of which explains why I’m wimping out on Silent sunday. I did try…
Anglesey Abbey with added friends.
Today we went out to Anglesey Abbey. It happens to be conveniently located between Merry and myself, and so an ideal place for us to arrange a transfer of daughters – I have acquired an extra one for a few days. It also achieved ticking off of another item from my summer todo list –…