With relatively vast (by local standards) quantities of snow around, i hadn’t been out for a few days, though the children had played endlessly out. We were quite glad that the planned Brownie trip to Holiday on Ice was literally out the back of us, so we walked through the show (as we would have […]

On February 6th 2000 i gave birth to my baby Maddy. She’s a little bit special to me, because she is the only one i can say that about and really feel i mean it – and she’s a little bit special for her Maddyness too. Today she is a little bit special because she […]

I appear to need to catch up again. 🙄 When i blogged last week about Josie at gym, i never came back to say what a lovely time we had together for the rest of the day. Annoyingly now, i can’t exactly remember it 😆 The big girls have been allowed to work on the […]

This is worthy of a blog instead of the one liner on brightkite. At Gymmies today, Josie not only joined in much more confidently and started having fun much quicker, not only really listened to the people running the activities and got much better with each go and not only climbed to the very top […]

… we get on with educational pursuits. The last 2 Thursdays we’ve had really good Brownie sessions – 2 weeks aog i led my first session and we did cress and mustard and bean sprouting, as part of the Seasons badge. This week many of them dressed up in Chinese outfits and we made red […]

Before i begin, i would like to make 3 things very clear. 1. I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a politically active home educator. I home educate for my own reasons and in a general sense tend not to get overheated about political changes that perhaps i should care about more. But […]

Sometimes, it feels like much more than 2 weeks since the cleaners last came. (Damn, giving up cleaners as redundancy reality bites is going to be hard.) Today was definitely one of them, with mess beginning to creep up in the “i can’t face doing anything because it is all so untidy” sort of way. […]

If i hadn’t had a splitting headache for most of it, today would have been an excellent day. As it was, it was mostly passable with some excellent bits and no awful bits (unless you count the endless “WE BLOODY DO OWN SOCKS, SO GO AND FIND SOME!!!!!!” arguments.) The big girls are very into […]