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Saturday snippets 9 September 2017

September 9, 2017 By Jax Blunt 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 […]

Filed Under: 2017, Book club, family, It's where it is, week by week Tagged With: blogtember, Saturday snippets, saturdaysnippets

Love you, bye.

June 21, 2013 By Jax Blunt 19 Comments

Hey little sister. Thought I’d take some time to tell you the news, just in case you haven’t been keeping up. Your namesake is 3 1/2 now. Which means you’ve been gone 5 years. Hardly seems possible, that five years have flown by without you. I think of you daily. Naming one of my children […]

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Saturday snippets 13 April 2013

April 13, 2013 By Jax Blunt 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 […]

Filed Under: Ages past, family, It's where it is, Making things, Reenactment Tagged With: Kentwell, milestones, reenactment, Tudors

Everyone has a story.

June 20, 2011 By Jax Blunt 7 Comments

I’ve always wondered what it was like to be part of a newspaper story. You know, how does it feel to be part of a disaster, do you really start feeling brave when you are described as such, that kind of thing. Do you notice the moment that you suddenly become newsworthy, is the narrator […]

Filed Under: blog for good, family Tagged With: charity, family, Jane Tomlinson run, Leeds10k

Why I’m not running Race for Life…

June 9, 2011 By Jax Blunt 2 Comments

I’m already signed up to Run for All. My sister invited me to take part in December, and I signed up just in time to save myself £5 on the race fee. I’ve been training all year, including while on holiday a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve still not run more than 4 miles. […]

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nature walk and incidental learning

September 21, 2009 By Jax Blunt 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 […]

Filed Under: Big, family, It's where it is, places we like, Small steps

Sunday sun.

August 23, 2009 By Jax Blunt 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 […]

Filed Under: Big, Doodling, drawing and decoration., family, Getting to know you, Making things, Puters!, reeling, writhing, Small steps

5 children, 2 puters, 1 website.

August 23, 2009 By Jax Blunt 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. […]

Filed Under: Ages past, Big, Doodling, drawing and decoration., fainting in coils, family, Getting to know you, Puters!, Small steps

Questseekers and cousins.

August 22, 2009 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

Friday morning, we managed to locate all library books, and persuade Small that he needed to take some of them back. He was not very happy about this. He hasn’t read quite a few of them – he tends to start reading them and then get distracted on to something else, which is not a […]

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Sunday at Kentwell

June 29, 2009 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

Up early on Sunday as we had a freecycler coming round to collect two divan bases from the garage. In the end she took all three, and now we have half a garage clear. And Tim will be taking L’s stuff up to her in a couple of days, so that’ll be another couple of […]

Filed Under: Ages past, Big, family, places we like, reeling, writhing, Small steps