Loading them up was a little difficult – our cunning arrangement of outer gate meets inner gate, forming new path to the waiting trailer worked a treat, and not having been fed before they were well up for a few scattered pig nuts, but the ramp of the trailer put them off. Note to self: [...]
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the pigs are gone
Posted in grow your own food, home education, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables on 21 September 2009 | 4 Comments »
summer dartmoor
Posted in general wittering, home education on 10 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d imagined we would have lots of trips out over the summer, but between the bad weather and illness, not many trips did happen. So we have to make the most of the opportunities when then come along, like today.
My son spent a lot of time studying the ordnance survey map. I like the ongoing feeling [...]
horse drawn barge
Posted in crochet, general wittering, grow your own food, home education, knitting, livestock, vegetables on 10 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We were proper grockles today and went on a day trip out, to go on the horse drawn barge on the Grand Western Canal.
As it was fairly close, we also popped into coldharbour mill and ‘accidentally’ bought four more bags of thrums (lengths of scrap yarn). oops
The barge trip itself was really nice; relaxing and interesting, [...]
full day
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, home education, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged chickens, eggs, sheep, vegetables on 8 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A full but satisfying day.
Suddenly realising how close the end of term (for those wot go to school) is, we have started to pack in lots of trips out etc. Places are much quieter during term time. So, today my son and I, along with my Mum, went to visit Buckland Abbey - former home of [...]
badman report
Posted in home education on 12 June 2009 | 6 Comments »
Fellow home educators will be aware that Badman report is out. The forums are buzzing, and a lot of people are not very happy. the basics are that:
home educators will have to register with the local authority
visits will be forced upon home educators
certain standards of education will have to be met.
There is lots more.. some [...]
just another sunny day
Posted in grow your own food, home education, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 2 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is it about sunny days? they always arrive on the same day as something that keeps you indoors, or at least stops you going out somewhere special. Yesterday we had a hospital appointment, today the home ed visitor.
This afternoon, finished emptying out the trailer of horse poo, so we have a heap for the [...]
still at sea
Posted in home education on 26 March 2009 | 8 Comments »
But its now more like the house is at anchor, rather than in the storm as earlier in the week. I can strongly recommend not having labyrinthitis. My doctor tells me it can be another few weeks for the remaining swimmy symptoms to go away, so I’m trying to get on with things, although doing [...]
haytor quarry
Posted in general wittering, home education on 19 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I sprang out of bed super early, with the fantastic weather in mind, to get a load of washing on, and we had a planned walk and picnic in the glorious sunshine all worked out. So obviously when I pulled back the curtain, I was a little put out to see fog. Lots of [...]
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