Archives for 2009

Circumstances have meant i haven’t done this in a while. This is just a day, as it happens. Not typical, not atypical. Just a day in a life of having a life lived the way we want it, in the last week before school imposes itself on our life and changes it. Amelie spent a […]

The Bitter Homeschooler Thanks to Bob – i laughed a lot 😀 If only i wasn’t suddenly feeling so ridiculously grim about my daughter starting school in a week, i’d feel even better 🙄

This blog has been going for a very long time; it wasn’t the first to be created out the ex-Muddlepuddle site, but it was one of the first – and i’ve enjoyed keeping it. But things have changed; over the last few years i’ve changed a lot and now i think it is time for […]

Maddy is having a good time at the moment, really forging ahead with the kind of things she is interested in and wants to be about. She’s very self motivated, so if she has a science book filled with home based science, she’ll get on and do it. She also loves the structure of Education […]

Lots of things have stopped me blogging for weeks; the best one of which was definitely this, our all new sparkly PlayMerrily Toys website, which has had the decency to be well received and instantly successful 🙂 About a million things still to do on it but that’ll be fine 😆 I can’t possibly remember […]

My blog is worth $12,984.42.How much is your blog worth? Just blowing my own trumpet instead 😉

Tuesday we had an early start and all 6 of us too k the train to London. Much as i love London, and i do, i’ve been avoiding going with all of us for ages from the sheer horror of trying to keep track of everyone on deep underground stations like the Victoria and Picadilly […]

Which makes 10 days altogether too long by half. So – where were we? Well, we had precisely no conversations about school at all, except one between me and Max where he told me off for being too negative about it. I’ll concede the point, but it is hard to get excited about school looming […]