twelve

I am having a bit a a revamp of the website – ok ok – I know – this has been going on for some time….  it’s just that it is so time consuming….aaaanyway… I have decided to do away with the home education section on the website, as now we have finished home ed, [...]

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the end of home education

for us anyway. Today was officially the last day of home education.  Well actually officially the last day of home education occurred some weeks ago, when my son started a part time job.  Only, he wanted to carry on until the ‘end of term’ as this was the time of year we pulled out of [...]

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distracted

I’m still here – just quiet at the mo.  Life seems a tad frantic, dividing my time between home ed, the animals and birds, and dealing with the crop.  and then on top of that, fighting the system as ever on behalf of my son. The joy of home ed was to step out of [...]

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pleasant indoors day

I like it when the rain sets in properly, and you can stop agonising over whether its indoors or outdoors things today. Whilst my son and I were doing the home ed thing: watching “Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant [DVD] [2009] “looking at banking and bank accounts, cooking and making brownies and so on, [...]

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mixed up day

A bit of everything sort of day. The day started with the arrival of the first chick hatching (I told himself I could hear chirping), Home education first thing, including driving my son to his course, then back to count the chicks.. 4 by then. Out to check on the animals.  Am very glad we [...]

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bluebells on the moor

It can be confusing, jumping from one role to another, from home ed to smallholder.  But we enjoy both parts, and there is lots of overlap. Yesterday we went walking on the moors amongst the bluebell fields near Hound Tor.  I dont think I shall ever get bored of this scene, and the scent  wafting [...]

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blackdown rings

August is back. A lovely hot day, we snuck out.  Out of interest,we went to see a local place marked on my OS map, Blackdown rings – just wondering what it was. Turns out to be an ironage hill fort, with a medieval fort earth works inside it. Very interesting,, although now just a serious of [...]

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fossil hunting

We’ve been watching a geology DVD recently, and this sparked a new interest in fossils in my son.  I’m pleased, as he is following a long family line of stone and fossil lovers – I’ve been spotting fossils in walls etc since I was  a little kid. So we made a family outing of it, [...]

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