This week, almost immediately upon our return from Fran’s hospital stay, we received a letter from her Speech and Language Therapist to say that she had been signed off and was no longer under her care, but had been returned to the “main fold” of Addenbrookes Cleft Team centre care. I’ve got mixed feeling about […]

There is a story about me, when i was very little, that i was taken to a PYO farm with my two slightly older cousins. It was a courgette field and my cousins kept taking the vegetables i found (allegedly) before i could, making me extremely cross 😆 Apparently my 3 year old self eventually […]

Last week Fran had to have her repeat operation; last year she had a bone graft from her hip into the space in her mouth. It was a horrible op, with lots of pain and bleeding and she took a long time to recover emotionally from it, mostly i think because they didn’t call us […]

Twice in the last few weeks we’ve had the opportunity to go into Cambridge and experience The Cloth Place, a completely hands on, creative soft play area that has real life items alongside handmade cloth artifacts. Split into several areas, the kids had only 2 rules – not to hurt each other, or themselves. Otherwise […]

We had a pleasant weekend with 2 enjoyable days out. First was orienteering in Hinchingbrooke Country Park which we all did and had an absolute ball. With my careful curriculum planning done a year ago, it fitted in neatly with Maddy’s map project 😉 and she was very good at it; so was Amelie. I […]

To the Head of Year 7 Admissions regarding Fran, Thank you for the welcome you recently extended to our daughter at your Year 7 Admissions Day; she had an interesting and thought-provoking day. However, on balance and following an equally interesting and exciting half term taster at *****, we have decided, in consultation with our […]

I had a morning off everything today as i had a chiropractor appointment (back now pretty much completely fixed) and then needed to go and buy some dancing things for a show (white catsuit, glad it’s not me!), pop into work and then go into town to the one remaining, almost entirely inaccessible, branch of […]

Combination of 3 projects; a very hastily done animation of her map project landscape (LEA man was coming and we wanted it finished!) with a standing stone Celtic circle n the back ground that gradually falls over. Not an exact map replica, but not bad. Exhibition of work. (Set up after he left, we’re not […]

It may be that you’ve read my posts on the Home Education Review recently and dismissed it and the comments about what it means for the wider community of parents who do use schools, as nothing more than hysterical rubbish from someone who ought to not mind the idea of permission and registration and regulation […]

With thanks to Tech for the title and Grit for her series of posts and inspiration 😉 Today, our poor children made polymer chains and explored non-Newtonian fluids, ate a healthy meal in the company of each other and interested adults and then enjoyed the cakes baked by one of them, collaborated on making sure […]