There are an awful lot of reasons for this, across the HE Community and in our family. The reason we home educate now is not the reason we started to do so. Perhaps one of the most pertinent to the moment ones is this:- It is my duty in law to ensure my children are […]
Cello Grade 1 Round Up for Posterity.
Fran took her Cello Grade 1 in June, having been learning for just over a year at that point. That year seemed to span her going from a little girl to a big girl, in part because i think she discovered that working hard at something she wanted to achieve reaped real rewards. I’ve watched […]
Club Penguin in Hama Beads
Or at least a Puffle on a surf board. Designed by Maddy, aged 9. Edited 2011 – these seem to be fairly popular. We’ve just got a copy of the Hama Designer CD again (thank you to my lovely friend Julie) and so I’ve drawn up the pictures. These are just for fun, no profit […]
And how it happened these last couple of days.
As described below, ordinary, average days where we’re all a bit motivated out, often do revolve around “normals”. So yesterday, while music lessons with our much loved music teacher were happening in the dining room there was a fair bit of this sort of stuff going on too. Reading a fiction/faction type book to give […]
How to Home Educate.
There, that caught your attention, didn’t it? If only there was a nice, one size fits all, instruction manual for home educating. Of course, there are plenty of people happy to sell you books, boxes and curricula that profess to be the ultimate success, but if i’ve learned anything in 9 years of home educating, […]
Amelie playing violin.
Not Back to School.
As regular readers will know, Fran had decided to start senior school this September, to see what it was all about, so she spent the last summer term at a local Juniors to prepare her. The Seniors she had been offered wasn’t the greatest, in fact i never heard anyone say anything particularly good about […]
Online Diabetes Survey.
I wouldn’t normally post such things but this survey has been put together by professor Joan Taylor, a researcher at De Montfort University, who happens to be my mother. Since i was a little girl, she has been working on a brilliant pump, filled with a gel that holds Insulin, that releases it in response […]
Normal normal normal.
Except there is no such thing. But today was pleasantly boring and relaxed, with some enjoyable interludes. We started off with a quick burst of housework and a mammoth washing session (do love having kids old enough to deal with their own washing!) and then a firm return to music practise which has slumped a […]
SOE Day at Audley End
Gosh i am feeling virtuous after all these days out AND all this blogging. Going to blog this one quickly though as i want to do something more important afterwards – plus, with September looming, i have an unaccountable urge to orgo-plan. Haven’t felt the need to do that for ages, but think it is […]
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