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Silent Sunday

May 8, 2011 by

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Knitting & Sewing, Photos Tagged With: gadgets, Kindle, knitting, silent sunday, technology

Fabric Paint Fun & a Giveaway

May 6, 2011 by

We’re back into more of a routine of work in the morning and activities in the afternoon again, which is good for me and always better for the girls too. By the end of last week some form of demob madness had set in; my girls never have been good without a bit of structure […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts Tagged With: craft kit giveaway, craftmerrily, easy fabric paint crafts, fabric paint for kids, fabric paints for t shirt designs, glitter fabric paint, tulip paint

We got Annie!

May 5, 2011 by

Thanks to the money saved up from a bit of blogging and the desperate plea of someone who works for us and who really wanted to see it but was too shy to go without kids in tow, we went to see Annie today 🙂 It’s a bit of a special one for all of […]

Filed Under: Music, Trips Out Tagged With: annie, annie stage show, going to the theatre, home educated children and socialisation, trips out, understanding the depression in America

To remind myself some other day.

May 5, 2011 by

I wrote this as a comment on Glow, that amazing wonderful place that has held me together over the last year. I’m copying it here to remind myself, on the days when the empty and dark feelings have me by the throat and won’t let go and when it seems that life, any amount of […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Freddie Tagged With: bereavement, grief, life after a child has died, losing a baby, loss of a baby, neonatal death

Trains…

May 4, 2011 by

The kids have been reasonably pleased with the whole “Night Mail” thing and have done some great work on it. I’ve not done photos yet but Maddy has done an amazing snippet of poem to fit into it:- “And though the country is very vast, she’ll never get lost, she’ll keep going fast. She’ll follow […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Children & Grief, Family Life, Garden, History etc, Home Education, Photos, Poems Tagged With: discussing terrorism with kids, explaining war to kids, garden, growing beans, night mail, poetry, politics with kids, seedlings, simon weston, stamp collecting, studying night mail, world affairs with kids

The Gallery: April

May 4, 2011 by

As things go, the Gallery provided too many opportunities for reflection this month. Too many I couldn’t walk past: they felt like a summons. But April hasn’t been a sad month, after all, it has been a happy month, one that has helped me see how lucky I am, even if it takes a certain […]

Filed Under: Allotment, Being a Parent, Family Life, Freddie, Garden, Nature Walk, Photos, Trying to Conceive Tagged With: allotments with kids, clomid, comfort, daffodil pictures, family, friends, gardening in April, going out when you have children, magnolia trees, meeting a new baby after losing a child, releasing balloons, trying to conceive

It's the Fork that Counts.

May 3, 2011 by

This one is for MTJAM (and the title is for my brother and sister). Emily wrote about Accidental Parenting and how she has inadvertently let her children develop a habit of nude baked beans. I’m not sure what to make of her comment that my accidental parenting is more deliberate (certainly Max would say that […]

Filed Under: Family Life Tagged With: being left handed, children eating with only forks, eating left handed, eating pudding with a fork and spoon, good cutlery table manners, how children learn table manners, knife and fork, mtjam, old fashioned table manners, table etiquette, table manners, using a fork in your right hand, victorian manners

Poetry Study: Night Mail by W. H. Auden

May 2, 2011 by

Last Wednesday was one of our new Co-op-Ed days (which I will blog!) but I did another poem with the each of the older/younger groups. I’m loving doing this, I think it is the first time I have felt properly useful in the group in the whole time we’ve been going and it has made […]

Filed Under: Poems, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: age of steam poems, auden, classic poems, good poems for kids, night mail, poetry project, poetry study

Garden & Allotment Stuff

May 2, 2011 by

This last week or so has been a flurry of visitors, visiting and being places. The bank holidays – and with them the end of April and the passing of all ‘those’ dates have flown by. I think they are not really the same for us, given in the Spring and Summer we can please […]

Filed Under: Allotment, Garden, Thinking Tagged With: container gardening, easy vegetable growing, growing garden vegetables, growing veg in pots, growing veg with kids, making trellis for climbers, memory gardens, owning an allotment, planting things to remember

In the end

April 30, 2011 by

I committed to a post a day through April and so here is the last of them. I can’t honestly do better than a song, one I love and which makes me cry but which also makes me smile wistfully. I am sad tonight. Freddie, I miss you so much. I wanted to watch you […]

Filed Under: Freddie

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