Tag: places we like
Orford castle.
After a couple of days off working due to our hectic social life 😉 I was quite pleased with the children’s attitudes yesterday. Small did a sheet on telling time, plus a maths practice, and some reading, while Big did some copywork – writing over a poem printed out in jardotted which only elicited low…
nature walk and incidental learning
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…
Sutton Hoo.
I’ve driven past the signs to Sutton Hoo lots of times on our way to Framlingham Castle, but somehow I hadn’t registered that it’s really very close to us, linking it in my mind with Framlingham, which is about a half hour away. Anyway, with this weekend being Heritage Open Days weekend, and therefore Sutton…
Saturday: sun, sand and sea.
Saturday morning evaporated away, I’m sure that there was playing, I seem to remember doing washing, oh and we communally weeded a tub to put in some tomato plants I’d been given. Turned out that the tub had previously had potatos in it and the children, but mainly C, rescued a big bowlful of very…
If it's Friday it must be Framlingham (again 🙂 )
Friday heralded our last time travellers trip to Framlingham for the summer. We’d already finished the passports and put them in the post, and Small’s bag arrived in the morning. It’s not desperately exciting, but it will serve to remind him of the activities 🙂 Am hoping that Big’s bag arrives very soon, as I…
(more) kindness of passing strangers.
Thursday was hot. So hot that I decided it was probably just as well that we weren’t going to the cloth place as well as Small’s Beaver sausage sizzle, as it would probably be way too much for them. So instead we had a quiet day at home, apart from the screaming 🙁 There were…
Sunday at Kentwell
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…
Saturday beach trip
As previously mentioned, L needed a lie in on Sat morning, something to do with us all staying up far too late chatting 🙂 Plus she arrived here with a stinking head cold, and while she could have done with some pampering and lying around time, instead she had these two smallish ppl desperate for…
Jax the fire marshal
Forest school yesterday, and the first time that we had a clash on car requirements, as Tim had arranged to go pick up L from London at the same time as forest school. Fortunately Em has three spare seats in her car, so Tim dropped us there on his way and we got a lift.…
May have walked too far…
Yesterday I had a lot of twinges in my right side, particularly when pushing Small in the swings at the park. I thought that having a quiet day might help. So obviously I didn’t. Did have a bit of a lie in, but then after that, decided I would go round to the Summer Fayre…