One of the things that struck me this holiday was how happily my children are entertained by very simple pleasures. I know lots of people like to pack holidays full of educational days out and seeing everything? and I know that essentially we are quite boring as we tend to just go back to the […]
Back where we belong.
Not the most auspicious of starts to a holiday 😆 The way down to Devon was dogged by bad traffic and the journey took much longer than normal. Fortunately, *she says, getting the plug in early* Three had lent us a Mifi Mobile Broadband doodah which meant iPhone and iPods could have a decent connection […]
An Amazing Maize Maze at Millets Farm
Yesterday I took 3 of our girls on my first ever bloggy PR day to see the wonders of the Maize Maze at Millets Farm in Oxfordshire. You might wonder how much fun you can have in a field that looks like this? The answer is, really an awful lot! We started our day by […]
Taking it to extremes.
After rather pathetically realising my ‘stay at home’ status had become a little bit too literal in my last post, we’ve been out every day this week. Which has been some achievement actually. We’ve been various children down at various points of the week this week so the dimensions of life have been quite different. […]
A Day of Two Halves – Race for Life Day
Both of them were good 🙂 Since, oh, I dunno, April perhaps, I’ve been going out running 3 or 4 times a week, following the Couch 2 5K interval running programme. To start with, I couldn’t even run for a minute, but over the weeks, it has built up until, 10 days before the Race […]
Anglesey Abbey
Anglesey Abbey is neither in Anglesey, nor an Abbey, so far as I could tell from the wander we had around it on our way home from Bury St Edmunds. It was, however, completely gorgeous and we’ll definitely be going back to do more there. It was one of those National Trust properties where they […]
Bury St Edmunds Abbey Day Out
This is the very best sort of home ed day. Sun, ruined abbeys and questions, so, so, SO many questions! The best thing about going to historical places is that I can normally answer those too 🙂 This day out at Bury Gardens, which holds the ruins of the abbey, was just amazing. We grabbed […]
Lower Hookner Farm – the best holiday cottage in Devon
We went back, in the same week, to the farm we went to last year when we so desperately needed a holiday. There were two reasons, firstly it was beautiful and lovely and welcoming and perfectly situated for us and secondly I knew that if I didn’t go back soon, then the memories of last […]
Brixham and Burgh Island
One day, when we knew the weather was due to be good but all the girls were a little in need of a little quiet time in the car (if you know what I mean) we decided to go to Dartmouth. It was a longish drive, thanks to the innumerable roadworks and I stopped concentrating. […]
To the Lady Volunteer in the Thrift Shop
Today my friend and I, and our 6 home educated children, were chatting to one of your co-workers in The Thrift Shop. He was telling us about the riding for the disabled programme, showing us pictures and explaining what goes on in the programme. The children, who had just spent a happy 45 minutes visiting […]
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