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  • Goodwife Joan of the barnschool.

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    Meet Goodwife Joan of the barnschool at Kentwell Hall. She also has her son Cal with her. They are standing in the door of the great barn, you can see the barnsward behind them. Joan rises early and breaks her fast in little melford. She may have chores to do before she comes to work…

  • Kentwell and home education

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    I had the loveliest email this morning from a long standing blog reader it appears I met last week without either of us realising who the other was. It’s an odd thing about kentwell, you tend to go by your participant name even after hours so you can meet people without getting to know who…

  • I've learnt a lot this week

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    I’ve learnt that sometimes you don’t realise how lovely the friends are you’ve made, until it really counts. And that having friends then feels really rather wonderful. Like being wrapped up in the warmest, kindest, most accepting and least judgemental hug. I’ve learnt about broken and departed numbers. Anyone who thinks the tudors were uneducated…

  • Snack time

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    Unseemly children without their head covers.

  • Saturday snippets 11 May 2013

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    {Travelling} to Kentwell for open day. {Seeing} lots of friends. {Meeting} imaginary people. Hello taming the goblin 🙂 {Cuddling} snotty grotty miserable boy for two hours of nap failure. {Eating} junk food and freezer food. Not a good day cost wise. {Hoping} Big survives the night in a friend’s tent! {Snapshots} Big has continued sewing…

  • Saturday snippets 4 may 2013

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    {Sewing} bodging a kirtle to a state that Big can wear it to kentwell this weekend. Learning to machine sew French seams. Making sleeves of a new shift too small. {Watching} the lorax with the younger three, as Tim and Big were out at a swim gala. {Negotiating} penalties for repeated napkin offences. {Enjoying} taking…

  • Visitors.

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    I think Tigerboy likes his granddad. Smallest enjoyed spending a day with her grandma. Small attempted to demonstrate why sonic on the wii is fabulous and the rest of us tried to explain Kentwell. We didn’t succeed. Acceptances are out, we will be spending part of our summer in a field and a barn being…

  • Saturday snippets 13 April 2013

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    {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…

  • Saturday Snippets 9th March 2013

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    {missing} out on the Kentwell Hall open day, due to a broken car and a sick Big. She was especially sad to miss out on catching up with her Tudor friends. {walking} to the shops with a trolley. The bright side of no car is that the shopping bill has been trimmed (you don’t buy…

  • History with added flowers.

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    It was history etc today. Slightly odd in that Big didn’t come with us, she was at a Kentwell friend’s birthday party. Shame the dates clashed as there were several extra participants in history she’d have loved to see, but that’s the way it goes. There’s apparently something coming up about tulips in the chapters…