It’s suddenly started raining lots so we’ve enjoyed a few days at home (although Jonathan and I had a foray out to Carisbrooke Castle in the wind and rain). All the kids were involved in helping with Jonathan’s magnificent gingerbread creation. War on Gingerbread: Jonathan describes it in detail: “at the top left [Continue]

Some time ago we changed the style of our Sundays to be far more relaxed and family orientated.  This has been brillaint for us making sure we get a proper day off and spend some time together. This Sunday was a particularly nice one. Martin and I woke up ridiculously early and mooched about listening to the radio and enjoying [Continue]

Ruth is doing IGCSE Chemistry – aiming to sit it next January.  She prefers working with some others so we have teamed up with Sam and Albie to work through it and some others are joining in as well. We’re approaching it in a different way to other exams – Maths was weekly tutorials and [Continue]

I couldn’t sleep so I got up early listened to the sunrise service on radio 4 and decorated the fire place area that we had cleared for Good Friday. Paper flowers on the cross, fruit and sweets (in place of the beans in our sacrifice jar) on the mantle piece and some flowers.        I [Continue]

We’ve done a bit more science over the last few days too. Just some observations of celery and food dye. The inside of some celery that has been in the food dye. And the inside of some that hasn’t been in the food dye. Jonathan also made some lovely gloop.  You need real borax for [Continue]

So Jonathan really enjoys science and Ruth fancies having a go at Chemistry and Biology international GCSEs over the next year or so which has meant we’ve been thinking about science activities a lot recently.  We’ve started doing a few more science demonstrations so that Jonathan can enjoy them and Ruth can learn something! So [Continue]

We had a really, really good Good Friday. We started with an early (for us) morning and headed down to the church.  Then we had an elicit exchange of dairy-free eggs and got ourselves sorted out for the Good Friday meditation we were taking. We stole the script for the meditation based on the last words of Jesus from Kingdom [Continue]

Had a go at Mary Berry’s Danish pastries today, but used soya milk instead of cows milk and Vitalite instead of butter (lots and lots of Vitalite). This process took ages and ages.  First of all I made the dough which wasn’t just “soft” but too sticky to kneed, so I added a very little [Continue]

I’m so behind with blogging so here are some photos from way back in February. We had a lovely Sunday afternoon walk out at Bembridge, Rebekah was at a youth event with the Eternal Flame but the rest of us had a great afternoon outdoors.   Martin spent the time taking arty-farty photos.         [Continue]

Jonathan had a lovely 10th birthday day on Friday.  We always let the birthday person choose the food for the day, Rebekah and Jonathan plan this in great detail months in advance, Ruth doesn’t mind too much.    This year Jonathan wanted a full cooked breakfast.  then for lunch Sushi and for dinner beef pie.  More meat then we [Continue]