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Let Down.

January 8, 2014 by

When there are a lot of the children in the house, a lot of needs to be met, meals to cook, places to be, abilities to nurture and worries to ease, there is normally something that gives at each stage. Sometimes a hobby goes, or a chink of time together, or a relationship falters a […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life, Gymnastics, Home Education, School, Thinking

Questions about home educating with Quib.ly

June 19, 2013 by

The good people of Quib.ly invited me to get involved in a conversation about home educating and why/how people decide to do such a thing. Quib.ly is a parenting and technology site which aims to link parents up with answers to their questions by accessing knowledge from other parents. It’s a really interesting, innovative site […]

Filed Under: Home Education Tagged With: can home ed kids go to school, does home ed work, home educating, home education faq, home education q&a, questions on home ed, Quib.ly

The End.

June 13, 2013 by

And then Tuesday came and with it, the end of a way of life and the end of a blog life. Perhaps that’s a little dramatic. But it does all feel a little dramatic, though I am trying hard not to BE dramatic about it. You can forgive me a momentary blog flounce perhaps 😉 […]

Filed Under: Home Education

The big change. School again.

January 25, 2013 by

A while ago, I don’t know where, I think I wrote a little about how  much we felt Amelie was outgrowing being home educated. In an ideal world, this would not be so; if she was the eldest, if her brother had not died, if I hadn’t had the business, or Bene, if she had […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Home Education, School

Why I'm quiet.

January 17, 2013 by

There are all sorts of reasons. One is I’m spending my evenings listening to the Wee Free Men books while making this. Another is I’ve been making these. Because I really want to get back to selling handmade things this year and I have masses of plans and not much time. Then there is crawling […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Being a Parent, Family Life, Garden, Home Education, Merrily Empire, Thinking Tagged With: family life, grief olympics, new craft shop, thoughts

A walk.

November 26, 2012 by

It shouldn't seem like a big thing, because it isn't. Only it is, because the last 3 years I've really struggled to go out without another adult. It's a much bigger problem than I've wanted to admit and I've hidden it better than I might have because there is usually Max or a friend to […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Grief, Home Education, The Girls, Trips Out

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

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

Right, so that was us, in the rain, on Dartmoor.

August 23, 2012 by

It would take far more than a bit of rain to depress us though. In fact, Dartmoor rain nearly managed to be funny by the end of the week. We managed to pitch the girls tent in a short gap in the deluge (I say we, I mean Max and Fran, obviously) and then snuggled […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Trips Out Tagged With: catacombs, dead things, exeter museum, rain, stuffed giraffes, stuffed tigers

How a home ed day in pictures should look….

July 24, 2012 by

There is a meme we old school home educators have done for years and years and year which is how a day looks for a home educating family. I say old school, clearly that’s ironic. I say how a day looks, clearly that’s a nonsense. It’s all part of the fun 😉 This is a […]

Filed Under: Felting, Home Education, Photos Tagged With: a typical home ed day, brother worship, garden crafts, home ed day in photos, music in a group, playing music together, summer holiday crafts, wet felting

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