We’re sitting at the table doing pin craft and Amelie wants to know if there will ever be a third world war. We talk about that a bit, how things have changed since Max and I were growing up, how then it wasn’t that long since WW2 and that had been not so long after […]
Christmas Characters Pom Pom Craft
We’re busy here, doing better than you might think at enjoying each others company and being together. After being hectically busy, trade pretty much stopped when the Daily Mail started banging on about the weather so I was able to come home and be with the kids and Max hasn’t been so stretched either. We […]
96
Number 96 in the Top 100 British Parenting Blogs of 2010 🙂 That feels like something indeed. Thank you to everyone who reads and comments and who has got me through these last 8 months. Your comments and kindness have kept me writing – and the writing has kept me sane. I sincerely hope none […]
Co-operative Membership Fund Local Project Funding Opportunity
A few years ago I found myself in one of the loneliest places in the world. I found myself in a situation where it felt as if only I had ever experienced what I was going through and the very nature of it meant that I was silenced, wordless and largely alone. Where I was […]
14th December 2010
So many numbers. 4. 5. 5th of 5. 5th of 6. Or, perhaps, none of those. Very much eclipsed by this year to the outside. But not to me. Not forgotten, even if not quite remembered in the same way. I can’t say the pain is any less, or the grief, or the loss or […]
Seasonal hibernation
I’m not really here much, but it isn’t for any particularly good or bad reason. We’re very busy at work and I’ve been there every day this week, with the girls having days with friends, relatives and even a paid sitter one day. This works okay; I get up early and sit with them through […]
The winner is….
…. comment number 50, Eva 🙂 Eva, please could you get in touch via the contact page (or I’ll chase you when I get a moment) and let me know your choice of doll and address 🙂 Thank you all again. As a thank you the code patch will give 10% off an order until […]
It's a computer Jim, but not as I know it.
It is fair to say that I owe the lifestyle we have now to computers. Way back in the mists of time, fretting about how Fran would cope with school, someone pressed a web link into my hand, I discovered home educating and the rest, as they say, is history. Through our clunky old computers […]
Christmas Crafting & Ideas
Last December we called time on ‘home educating normals’ for December as I felt that after years of me being immersed in business during the festive season, the girls deserved my full attention and some old fashioned fun. As it happened, we ended up, through a variety of add on conversations and the sheer joy […]
The Ogre and the Knight in Shining Armour
Once upon a time, a maiden in distress (stop laughing at the back there) stopped at a filling station, in desperate need of assistance. She had accidentally driven too far with too little fodder and had discovered, to her horror, that she had not brought her sack of everlasting gold with her 🙁 Being an […]
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