Posted in grow your own food, home education on 13 May 2008 | No Comments »
Today a family trip out to one of our favourites: Tintagel. Difficult to explain why, as I am not obsessed with Arthurian legend, and there is not much castle there really, but still the whole ruined castle stuck out on a crumbling cliff headland is quite appealing. It’s obvious how easy it would have been [...]
Posted in home education, wild foods, tagged nettles on 28 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
#2 Interesting home education experiment: colour changing nettle tea
I got this idea from this site when I was looking for recipes for nettle tea. Actually you don’t need a recipe for nettle tea.. it is nettles and hot water! … but best to choose young nettle tips. The tea will be green.. darker green the [...]
Posted in home education on 17 April 2008 | 4 Comments »
OK, this is a controversial subject.. The subject on whether to allow visits from the local authority (LA) divides the the home ed community.
When we first started to educate at home, we did everything correct and open - we had to really, my son was at school, and we had to deregister officially. Our decision [...]
Posted in grow your own food, home education, house and home, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, tagged sheep, sowing, vegetables on 14 April 2008 | No Comments »
Glorious sunny day today, two loads of washing dried, yay for outdoor drying… and not having stuff hanging damply on the clothes horse in the kitchen…
Nice Idle morning, my Mum came round, (as we are havng our ‘Easter holidays’ from home ed at the mo) we drank coffee, compared notes on the progress of our [...]
Posted in grow your own food, home education, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, tagged lambing, lambs, sowing on 8 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Although a great and exciting time of year, this is also a time of hard work and stress. After the disappointing events of losing two of our first lambs recently, the time consumed that has to be found and replaced, the potato planting, seed sowing, house repairing, new veg patch digging, fencing and making, which [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, home education, livestock on 22 March 2008 | No Comments »
With everything we are trying to do - all the new things we are taking on, it is easy to not have enough ‘family time’
That sounds far worse than it is, after all as I home educate our son, we spend lots and lots of time together.
And he is very into everything we are doing [...]
Posted in home education, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 11 March 2008 | No Comments »
Calmed down to just very windy now, and able to get outside - what a difference that makes to my mood! I have come to rely on spending time outside every day, and miss it when I can’t!
Spent a lot of today teaching my son how to make spaghetti bolognais, from scratch.. starting with the [...]
Posted in books, home education on 6 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is world book day. WBD is a charity that aims to encourage kids into reading, and if your kids go to school the chances are high that they will have come home with some tokens. If, like me, you home educate, you can still get the tokens, just by contacting them.
The tokens are for [...]
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