*Managed to get all 3 children through music practise without any tears and all with considerable improvement. *Managed to coax Fran through a history question that was producing tears; she’s not the best at unscrambling problems and HATES reading back to find comprehension answers, so a “put the dates with the statements” type question is […]

Max and i have been considering a new car for a little while; ours is a lovely 6 seater Peugeot 806 and i love it but we camp a lot, our children are insisting on lengthening and we can’t really get everything we need to pack under their feet any more. We’d already looked at […]

Two full days of 9-4pm education – i’m worn out! Let’s see, what have we done today? I’ve managed to supervise all 3 lots of music today; that takes a bit organisation, but i’m keen to make the most of the money being spent on it, so i need to make sure we do the […]

Sometimes i almost look back fondly on the days when Max went out to work, i stayed at home bored out of my mind with a bunch of teeny weeny people and everything was the same every day. These days, we’re always trying some new combination of things/stuff/blah blah. We’re working on my having a […]

Some conversation over the weekend has sparked some thoughts; this is not a reply or a justification but i felt that 10 years in and on the cusp of sending in a school application at the specific request of my daughter, was a good time to write down the things that that conversation crystallised for […]

We’ve had one of those “home ed should be like this” sort of days (I’m making an effort; for 1, Fran has decided to try senior school… sob… and for another my life is suddenly unexpectedly looking more promising). First thing we had the first visit from our new music teacher, who is coming to […]

I’m ever so proud of Fran today, (though feeling very slightly guilty!) After only 3 months or so at gym they’ve pushed her up a class, into the Novice class, which is a by selection rather than a recreation class, (“Novice class competing general level for floor and vault competition for boys and girls” says […]

Much of the week before last was spent in me frantically getting ready for us to go away. We had some new racking delivered for work which arrived a week late, which caused a few problems as we’d put everything (think 3-10 of everything of 1000 products) into boxes ready for swapping it the week […]

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