So this is a post dedicated to that small group among my friends who think that I cope well with life and keep it together all the time – those of you who know me better and longer will know that is just a front!  I like to be helpful and I really really don’t like to let people [Continue]

A couple of weeks ago we had a lovely trip to Winchester.  We started off with a load of friends on the Ferry.   The teens and some of the braver adults walked from Southampton to Winchester while the rest of us went to spent the day experimenting at INTECH.  We were delighted to unexpectedly meet up [Continue]

This Lent we are really grabbing hold of the concept of gratitude in our family.  We have a gratitude pot, a gratitude book and I’ve discovered a website where they are aiming at giving thanks for a 1000 gifts in a year.  I love that concept and, even though we are already well into 2012, [Continue]

So, for the last couple of years I have had one exam or another to prepare for, which is fine and I learnt a lot, and now have 5 GCSE equivalents, but did mean I always had some structured work to do. I sat my final GCSE in November and am not going to college til September, [Continue]

So I woke up at 8.30 this morning (On my lie in day, I was quite sad) but decided to get up and begin my lazy Saturday, full of plans of doing nothing!  So began three hours of telly watching (Blue murder and Sherlock) some reading (Brian Mclaren, “The story we find ourselves in”) and [Continue]

Amongst other things I’m doing I’m giving up Facebook for Lent.  I have noticed something interesting through today, Ash Wednesday, I clearly think in terms of my Facebook status updates. Susan Gibson: has done two maths classes today. is very impressed with Jonathan’s Wolf based art work, thanks @Jules. has got rather wet [Continue]

Pancakes all day here.   Scotch pancakes for breakfast with home made apple a sloe gin jelly or Sue’s lovely bottled apple sauce.        For lunch on Shrove Tuesday we always have frittaten soup having got a recipe for this from Great Granny.      Over the last few years we’ve started a new [Continue]

I’m so behind with blogging so here are a few bits and bobs we’ve done over the last few weeks rather than individual posts. Dinosaur Isle: More Tesco vouchers to use up (thanks friends).  We did this with Eli and even had clipboards and worksheets!!!           Science Paper: Clearly the worksheet sparked [Continue]

I’m very pleased with the card I made this year – using a mixture of techniques stolen from the Art Projects For Kids website and the It’s All Fiddle Fart blog. I like it better than last year’s effort.   I used the same technique for some gift tags too once again stealing from the [Continue]

Well a tidy fireplace area anyway.   We had some lovely flowers for Burns night so they are making everything look brighter as is the home-made book with daffodils on the cover.           [Continue]