Was to keep track of our home ed days and chat over the garden fence (virtually speaking) with other home educators. Most of those people have moved on, in that their children are more of an age with my teens and I’ve let the home ed aspect lapse. Today one of those teens used the […]
Saturday Snippets 28th July 2018
July 28, 2018 By 1 Comment
Saturday snippets 9 September 2017
September 9, 2017 By 9 Comments
{Practising} habits. Water, exercise, creativity. If I manage to cement these in for another week I’ll add something else – maybe that I clear the kitchen before internet? (This might mean I mainly clear it before bed, but that works too.) {Reading} actually I’ve stalled. I’ve been reading Lynda LaPlante Good Friday (amazon affiliate link […]
Love you, bye.
June 21, 2013 By 19 Comments
Saturday snippets 13 April 2013
April 13, 2013 By 3 Comments
{Watching} the spy next door. Jackie Chan family oriented movie. A bit uneven in pacing, but overall great fun. {Reading} Follow me down by Tanya Byrne. Which has no problems with pacing 😉 {Visiting} kentwell Hall for a sewing day in preparation for tudor times ahead. Lots of costume changes afoot. {Eating} McDonald’s, as we […]
Everyone has a story.
June 20, 2011 By 7 Comments
Why I’m not running Race for Life…
June 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
nature walk and incidental learning
September 21, 2009 By 4 Comments
It may seem as if I have abandoned the whole philosophy of autonomy and unschooling, nothing could be further from the truth. I’m well aware that the majority of the children’s education is still delivered incidentally as it were, facts absorbed from yoghurt pots, conversations about words and meanings, TV programmes imparting animal information or […]
Sunday sun.
August 23, 2009 By 4 Comments
Bil was very organised this morning and struck the tent before the preteens were awake. Well, the second bedroom and the outer anyway. When they woke up and stumbled out he asked them if anything was missing. “Um, the washing line?” “What, not the tent?” doh. They breakfasted and putered, and Big taught Princess and […]
5 children, 2 puters, 1 website.
August 23, 2009 By 1 Comment
Not a particularly good combination for a harmonious morning! Despite their late night, all children were up reasonably early, although the preteens were the last, unsurprisingly. They mainly managed to play on moshi monsters – there was an attempt to play monopoly junior, but it was abandoned on the bedroom floor after not very long. […]
