I don’t know where i had got to. Fran made it through a week of school – and so did all the rest of us. She was exhausted by the end of gym on Wednesday and almost beside herself by the end of Thursday. She gave me a piece of paper inviting me to a […]

Circumstances have meant i haven’t done this in a while. This is just a day, as it happens. Not typical, not atypical. Just a day in a life of having a life lived the way we want it, in the last week before school imposes itself on our life and changes it. Amelie spent a […]

The Bitter Homeschooler Thanks to Bob – i laughed a lot 😀 If only i wasn’t suddenly feeling so ridiculously grim about my daughter starting school in a week, i’d feel even better 🙄

This blog has been going for a very long time; it wasn’t the first to be created out the ex-Muddlepuddle site, but it was one of the first – and i’ve enjoyed keeping it. But things have changed; over the last few years i’ve changed a lot and now i think it is time for […]

Maddy is having a good time at the moment, really forging ahead with the kind of things she is interested in and wants to be about. She’s very self motivated, so if she has a science book filled with home based science, she’ll get on and do it. She also loves the structure of Education […]

Lots of things have stopped me blogging for weeks; the best one of which was definitely this, our all new sparkly PlayMerrily Toys website, which has had the decency to be well received and instantly successful 🙂 About a million things still to do on it but that’ll be fine 😆 I can’t possibly remember […]

My blog is worth $12,984.42.How much is your blog worth? Just blowing my own trumpet instead 😉

Tuesday we had an early start and all 6 of us too k the train to London. Much as i love London, and i do, i’ve been avoiding going with all of us for ages from the sheer horror of trying to keep track of everyone on deep underground stations like the Victoria and Picadilly […]