We were very lucky to be given a few Tesco vouchers that needed to be used up and as there are not many places to go to with them on the Island we opted for Amazon World with a friend. Jonathan really loved looking at the birds and even sketched a few.  We liked the wintery tree [Continue]

Facebook is to blame for this – I followed a friend around and landed on a group about making a crochet leap year blanket.  The idea is that you make a square a day and turn it into a blanket – I was hooked!  now I I know what I am like and I would [Continue]

Martin had been saying for a couple of weeks that he needed a holiday so at the end of November I decided that even though we didn’t have time to have an actual holiday we could manage a night away.  We could do the Saturday night, we have no duties at church the next morning, there were no kids [Continue]

A few of the other things we have managed to do this December have been: Watching the amazing  Bloodstone at Jubilee Stores (we even persuaded Jamie to come and watch Morris dancing )     Cookie Exchange:   The Learning Zone Christmas Party:    Family Christmas time:         [Continue]

Despite being quite ill over the last couple of weeks we have managed to get some things done.  There has been a fair amount of crafting. I loved these easy but beautiful paper Christmas stars:     We had a houseful felting Christmas stockings in all manner of colours and patterns:    We managed a snow-flake [Continue]

We had what my girls always refer to as a “proper” home education morning.  This involves being in a hall with a group of  kids from a wide range of ages and families and to do something that people of most ages can enjoy and  probably the chance for smallish boys to find some sticks [Continue]

We had a grotto last year at Fort Victoria and it was such good fun we did it again. The woodland skills people helped with the grotto and cosy fire area, as did a few other volunteers.    There were decorations to make and lanterns to hang – once I’d set fire to my hair lighting some [Continue]

I have been knitting a new hat – it’s a sock head hat that I found on Ravelry. The ribbing took me about 8 attempts to start but once I got beyond the first 6 rows or so it was very easy- lots of plain knitting so good for knitting while I’m watching murder mysteries or Merlin.        [Continue]

We (Jonathan and I) wanted to make a lovely felted tree like the one posted here.  I hadn’t taken into account the fact that her felt was “thick felt” whereas my felt is just normal ordinary felt.  So our tree was very very very flat.  however we are resourceful people (aren’t all home educators)  and [Continue]

As far as my children are concerned today (Dec 1st) is the first day of Advent, even though as far as I’m concerned we started Advent last Sunday.  But today is when the countdown begins and we follow some general traditions. We have a card stable that waits for the inclusion of nativity characters. The [Continue]