Tag: Ages past
Roche Abbey
Today we went to Roche Abbey We played hide and seek Admired the spots on a ladybird Threw Pooh sticks And waited for them to reappear … and Small has learnt to play with the stream… 🙂
Bolsover
Today we went to Bolsover Castle. It is only two villages away, so of course, we haven’t been there in the six years since we moved here. Signed up for family membership to English Heritage while we were there (15 months for the price of 12). High point for Big was the tree, which is…
A Steaming Good Day Out!
I have only ever been on the North Norfolk Railway and to a couple of museums including a trip long ago to the National Rail Museum in York so our trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was pretty exciting for me as well as the smalls. The railway extends south-west from Keighley in…
How much more education can we fit in one day????
It occurred to me that this blog has been somewhat devoid of home educational reporting recently. That’s because we’ve come out of the sit-down-and-do-work stage that we went into a little while ago, it appeared to serve its purpose and kickstarted the learning process again. We now have voluntary turning off of the television (ah…
mostly harmless
Describes the day fairly well, although it wasn’t what I was thinking as I entered the title box. Yesterday afternoon I made a superhuman effort to detach myself from computer chair and got down on the floor and we did mosaics. This seemed to go down well. The bedtime routine went well as well –…
Weekend recap
Feeling that we did more history on Friday night, seems to be the in thing atm. Sat morning wandered around packing up the car with overnight gear that included a tent (!) and we pootled off the path which was lovely. Lots of other puddlers there as well, and most of us stayed over (only…
After the chaos of the morning
the children pretty much amused each other all day 🙂 This is a result. Oh, there were plenty of calls for referree-ing, but they amused themselves all day. I had printouts of 25 year calendars and sun dials to make, but they didn’t need me or laid on activities. They played imaginative games pretty much…
Piccadilly circus!
Been like that here this morning. After staying up ludicrously late working last night (and *still* not getting project in hand finished, doh!) I had set the alarm knowing that Sarah was dropping Dino off for the day around 10. I also knew that the nursery nurse was coming, but somehow I’d got that in…
New lodger?
He’s been sleeping on the compost bin for a while, but tonight he appears to have decided to move in. If he keeps the grotty cats from next door out, it’s a deal 🙂 And in other news, well, I already blogged the SALT phone call. Pulled up Something Special on the desktop and let…
Mummy, can I do some maths?
I love my daughter 🙂 She woke me this morning by asking me where the first man and woman came from, which lead to a good discussion about how various ppl believe different things, skirted quickly over a variety of creation stories, and landed on a discussion of the theory of evolution. Had to call…