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Remembering Freddie on his birthday

April 2, 2011 by

From Rich & Ella in Australia, a photo by Merrily Me on Flickr. Remembering Freddie on his birthday. I also made a picture to send to StillLife 365. I’m very grateful to Angie for featuring it on his birthday. Fran wrote about him too. Angela lit a candle for him… thank you. So did Cara; […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, freddie's birthday, infant loss, neonatal loss

April 1st

April 1, 2011 by

Really and truly, this is an infill post since I was too sad to post on April 1st. But it is here to signify that I am taking part in NaBloPoMo, which is possibly the funniest and silliest thing I know of. Since funny and silly seem like good ingredients to add to April 2011, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: NaBloPoMo

Learning Through Play – any other way?

March 31, 2011 by

Play seems to mean a multitude of different things. It means something a child does that keeps them out of their parents hair, something children do together, sometimes it means a game inside, or a game outside; to me, as a child, playing usually meant being alone, deeply engrossed in a game from my imagination […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Home Education, Uncategorized Tagged With: educating at home, Home Education, learning through play, megablocks, play, tots100, toys

Proof of the Blogging is in the Shopping

March 31, 2011 by

Local Bought Food, a photo by Merrily Me on Flickr. This week we had our basic food shop delivered, minus meat, bread and fruit and veg. We plan to use a partnership based supermarket for this eventually, and top up with Co-op, but this was a good start and changing too many things in one […]

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4 good things

March 22, 2011 by

1. This morning my guest post on Tots100 appeared – thanks for that opportunity Sally 🙂 Never done a guest post before, enjoyed it. 2. Fran and Amelie did their music festival. Amelie got commended and Fran a merit. Fran played really well (they both did) so was a bit sad not to do better. […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Josie, Maddy, Sport & Dance, Uncategorized Tagged With: cello, gymnastics, iphone4, music festival, tots100, trampoline, violin

Domestic Servitude or Fit for Life?

March 21, 2011 by

About a year ago now there was a period of time where home educators were accused, as a pack, of keeping their children at home for domestic servitude and household chores, rather than for the fairly reasonable purpose of wanting them to have an different and meaningful education that would fit them for life. Apparently […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: clothing labels, cooking, domestic servitude, family chores, housework, kids doing chores, kids doing housework, learning to run a home, sorting washing, washing machines

Friday Club: A Favourite Gadget

March 18, 2011 by

I’m a complete gadget girl; I have a DS (I’m on my 4th!) and an iPhone and a laptop and a Kindle and I love them all and can use up to three of them at any one time. I have a barcode scanner at work and a laminator and a decent camera and a […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Fimo Models, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: craftmerrily, dragons, favourite fimo tool, favourite gadget, favourite modelling tool, friday club, polymer clay tools, sculpey

Testing a Gizmo.

March 17, 2011 by

This is a test post. Nothing to see here.

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Daffodils

March 15, 2011 by

Daffodils a photo by Merrily Me on Flickr.

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The Co-Operative Revolution

March 9, 2011 by

A few weeks ago, driving home from our Latin Etc group, Fran said “We have a little school in a way now, don’t we?” And we do, in a way. It isn’t a school, because we specifically avoid the conditions that would make it so, but for a 12 year old who has only ever […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: co-operative business, families, local business, local co-ops, sharing home ed skills, the big society, the co-op, the co-operative revolution

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