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 [...]
Posted in frugal living, home education, house and home on 3 March 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’m a casual charity shop forager. That is, I don’t spend all day going from charity shop to charity shop hunting that bargain; with home educating my son, I don’t have the time. I’m not much into shopping either. But I cannot stand waste - and will not cut up (to remake into something else) an [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, home education, self-sufficiency, tagged mend and make do on 28 February 2008 | No Comments »
My Mum said to me recently that it was good these days that ‘mend and make do’ is back - now everyone is being green. She no longer thinks people will see her as being mean, if she wears something old and worn out, but ‘environmentally friendly’. Of course, we shouldn’t worry about what other [...]
Posted in general wittering, home education, tagged Dartmoor on 20 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today we went up onto the moors, to visit a favourite place of mine, Merrivale, where there is a prehistoric stone row.
Actually, two double stone rows, a stone circle and a large standing stone, a barrow,and the remains of hut circles.
There are some sixty-odd stone rows on Dartmoor, and this one is by no means [...]
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