In the days following Freddie’s death, I was pointed to the Glow in the Woods writers and forum and a place where I would find comfort and solace and friendship among others who would understand what I was going through. I badly needed a place where the focus was not on angels or god or […]
Archives for July 2012
Roll up. roll up, read all about it.
There is nothing quite like a quick poke at parenting on a public forum or news site for getting the blood boiling. I wrote the other week about how Cherie Blair had rattled cages all over by saying that what children needed was to have their mothers out at work being proper role models instead […]
Not such a gym mum any more.
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged gym stuff. There are lots of reasons for this, time being one of them. One day I’ll write more of what I think about it all but now is probably not the time. The girls still get a great deal out of it, though it has less […]
How's you solve a problem like a catch up?
You’d be forgiven for thinking we never do anything. It’s not even remotely true. These days the things I would like to blog far outnumber the number of hours I have for blogging. I wish I could record keep like the old days; I love looking back on those posts. Looking back on the last […]
I always said thank goodness for the internet.
One of the absolute default questions whenever you say you home educate is “how do you make sure you know everything they need to know?” My stock answer has always been “We have the internet, what I don’t know I google”. And that is exactly right, that is what we do. Maddy has been observing […]
Oh, you know what… behave.
Light and fluffy. Light and fluffy. Must try harder. If this 8 seconds of video doesn’t make you smile, I don’t know what will 🙂 This is Bene in his new Stokke Sleepi. There is no way we could have afforded this – he would have had a travel cot – but we were gifted […]
A head filled with heavy nothing.
Oh dear. No blogging. We’ve actually been having a good time, if you count charging around like loons a good time. I could write lots of posts filled with interesting stuff. I will do. But not here. If you read my other blog (and thank you to the people who do and commented, I really […]
Where'd the Bene go? Here he is :)
Gratuitous boy pics. You know you want them. He looks a bit bigger in that blanket these days. Did I mention we all completely love him? He rolled today, proper rolled with arm out from under and head up. Rolling and sitting in a week.
Further Tudor Doll Costume Merriment.
I’ve been enjoying watching a real change in my girls over the last few days. Amelie and Josie have both really persisted at sewing Tudor clothes for their Groovy Girl dolls and have got better and better as they went along. Both sewed gather petticoats in jersey fabric (idea for a doll, falls really nicely) […]
Blogging like the old days.
The girls want o make Tudor costumes. Normal practise is to make rough versions first and get the hang of it. I thought we needed to start very small; groovy girl small. Rather to my surprise, Josie has managed amazingly well. She’s completed, all on her own and with increasing neatness, a petticoat with waistband […]
