It annoys me that I’m not doing a good old inspiring home ed blog any more. I do try but more and more the girls just get on and do stuff, not very visual or exciting stuff, not stuff that warrants dramatic blog posts. more and more, this blog has become about me, or just […]
Archives for 2011
A Day of Two Halves – Race for Life Day
Both of them were good 🙂 Since, oh, I dunno, April perhaps, I’ve been going out running 3 or 4 times a week, following the Couch 2 5K interval running programme. To start with, I couldn’t even run for a minute, but over the weeks, it has built up until, 10 days before the Race […]
Happy Wedding Anniversary
We’ve been married 13 years today. Not bad for any couple; really, under a multitude of circumstances, pretty good for us, because they’ve not exactly been the smoothest of years. I’d have given a lot, 3 years ago, to know we were going to get to 13 years: it wasn’t something that looked certain at […]
Silent Sunday
Make it stop
It is certainly not unique experience to the babylost parent to feel cold horror creep when they hear of another parent losing their child. You do not have to have watched a child die, or be told your child has died, to know that it would be the most terrible thing, the most dreadful thing, […]
What I thought of CyberMummy – Part One
I spent the weekend at a blogging conference/networking/marketing event – called CyberMummy. Despite the alarming title, it probably should assure you I have not come home made of aluminium, with my brains sucked out and vomit on my shoulder. On the other hand, I do wonder if when it was originally given it’s name, it […]
Not so much other than ordinary
In the almost total absence of a home internet access this week, we’ve done other stuff. The allotment was in sore need of some work, so we’ve done that. The little girls have weeded and watered and stone collected, so our beds are better next year and we’ll have paths to walk on that get […]
Jack in a Box
I’ve been quiet this last couple of weeks. I’m engaged in a process of frantically holding everything, every feeling and memory and thought inside a box with a lid that wants to spring open. It’s the only way to manage just now. I was only able to take the anti-depressants for a month and coming […]
Maths and the art of Lazy Home Ed
I’ve been waiting a long time for this moment. Not since virtual non-reader, 8 year old Fran suddenly picked up a Rainbow Fairy book and launched into fully fledged literacy, has being a home educator felt quite so good. The honey, all of it, is not in the achievement, but in the path to the […]
Learning to fly away again
Today this song, one of my all time favourites since I was a teenager, seems very appropriate. There is something about the video for it, never mind the words, which says all there is to say. Everything is perfect, beautiful and all I could ask for, but none of it quite raises a smile in […]
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