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Let's hear it for the girls.

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I’m all out of blogging mojo and blogging time but this needs recording. The girls competed in a gym comp at the weekend. I’ll have to add video later for posterity but here is a picture to remind me of a great day. They both did well although it was not Fran’s day really (gcses […]

Saturday

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It’s been such a busy few weeks; gcse’s looming, 2 shows to get the kids through, all the school upheaval, trying to launch a new website (STILL trying to do that) and a cello exam, plus all the ordinary gym things. If I get to sit down at all, it seems to be about 10.30pm. […]

School Perks.

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I find myself quite conflicted about our schooling life lately, even more so than I was at the beginning. It has been imperfect for the younger two girls in some ways (as we expected it would be, that’s why we didn’t used to send them after all!) and although Josie is settled and Fran is […]

Talent Show

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I didn’t get time to mark Fran’s success in a recent talent show she was part of; the evening coincided with me having to dash off to rescue Josie who arrived on a holiday with friends and threw up immediately 🙄 I’ve also been waiting for Fran to organise a video of the dance in […]

Josie visits the House of Lords to #ChangeTheStory

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When this blog started Josie was not even a twinkle in my eye but even then, right back at the beginning in May 2003, books and reading were the building blocks of our home education journey. My confidence in a book-rich education led to my self belief in educating my children at home. They’ve grown […]

Education the other way.

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After years of being the ‘slightly not in a box’ home ed group on visits and trips out, I experienced being a ‘mum on a school trip’ this week. Josie’s year went on a trip to the Egyptian area of the British Museum and I decided to go too. This was partly because I was […]

Lax Toddler Parenting #4: The Cardboard Box Edition

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Now, obviously I’m a big advocate of toys, what with making my living selling them, but I’m the first to admit that a REALLY good cardboard box can hardly be beaten for sheer value. There are masses of post on this blog, I’m sure, of pictures of the girls in the olden days when stock […]

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