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A day in Sherwood Forest.

October 20, 2012 by

You might have noticed that we are sporting a shiny new badge over there on the right. We’ve been rather lucky and become part of the Centerparcs Family Blogger Club for the year, thanks to winning a competition with the Tots100. Thanks to this Pinterest board (did I mention I love Pinterest?) we are going […]

Filed Under: Trips Out Tagged With: centerparcs

It's been a proper home ed week.

October 20, 2012 by

There has been lots going on here this week, even though I had a day out (more to come on that!) and we spent a day interviewing for new staff. As well as the geography day we did there has been lots of crafting of various sorts. Maddy, Josie and I have put together these […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Autumn Crafts, Drawing, Family Life, Fimo Models, Home Education, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: cat drawings, fimo models, finger puppet designs, halloween crafts, ice skating, life, Simple Crafts

Not Finished it by Friday Winter Edition.

October 19, 2012 by

So far i have knitted a lot of baby blankets, a cardigan for a child who doesn’t wear it, a cardigan for a baby who outgrew it plus two that did get some wear and…. some hats. Which were too big or too small remarkably quickly. I thought it was time I knitted something for […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: easy knitting, heating costs, knitting cardigans, knitting socks, saving money on fuel, winter knitting projects

A typical home ed day in photos

October 19, 2012 by

This is long overdue; I promised to open this meme ages ago – but life gets in the way. Every year home educators with blogs do a meme where the tell a ‘not very typical because what days are?) typical home education day in their house. Our days recently have been fairly humdrum but here […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Uncategorized Tagged With: home ed geography, Home Education, typical home ed day

How my children see me meme

October 17, 2012 by

Dear Sian and Tara, One day I will introduce my children to you and they will describe to you in graphic detail how glad they were to be torn away from the geography to do these drawings. All I can tell you was I never knew how much they liked geography. This is how my […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Family Life, Uncategorized

Imagining life in ten years time.

October 16, 2012 by

It was only after Bene was safely home from hospital and had been here for a few weeks, taken a few trips in the car, been out to visit places once or twice, that Max and I really started to consider the logistics of life with 5 children in the house. I mean, we had […]

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Remembrance

October 15, 2012 by

And now, 2 years and 6 months and 2 days on, I understand why those veterans stand in solemn silence once a year. I understand the sober pride, the gentle, stony set of mouth and cheek, the simple grace of defiant, silent, remembrance. I am almost there. And if I live another 40 years, this […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief Tagged With: international infant loss awareness day

Can I talk to you about something?

October 13, 2012 by

Just before I had Bene, I made a very positive choice not to do something. I didn’t replace our house phone, which had bitten the dust in dramatic fashion, running out of battery within minutes and randomly spewing out ansaphone messages from up to 4 years ago to unsuspecting grandads who called home and were […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cold calling, sales calls, unsolicited telephone calls

Job Advert for PlayMerrily Toys in Peterborough

October 12, 2012 by

We are actively seeking a new member of staff to join the team at our unit, where we sell toys, crafts and baby items. The unit is located in Woodston, in Peterborough. We are looking for someone to work around 25 hours a week, 5 days a week from about 9-2 each day, though there […]

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Normal service will resume…

October 11, 2012 by

Shortly. Possibly. Life has got rather complicated. Not only do we have children doing what is fast becoming an almost impossible combination of activities but business is heading into its busy time and 2 of our staff are moving. Gulp. Luckily we will manage, but the well oiled machine will be, erm, using different oil. […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Fimo Models, Fran, Photos, Thinking, Trips Out

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