Birthday lunch.  Ruth wanted quite a low key birthday – we had the food she wanted to eat and watched New Tricks! But on Wednesday we had her party – ice cream and Just Dance. We also had cake – well cup cakes, Ruth was busy making them and practising with her new icing petal [Continue]

We have been rather lazy on Sundays recently.  Just coming home from church having a leisurely lunch/dinner and watching TV or playing games.  But I have really been fancying getting out on a Sunday afternoon particularly as the weather is bright and shiny just now.  So we headed out to Fishbourne with a plan to [Continue]

We made a spore print from the fungi we picked at Parkhurst forest .   You put the fungi on some paper, cover it and leave it over night. In the morning there is a spore print. [Continue]

Jonathan has been interested in Greek myths and legends for a while now, we’ve been making a trojan horse for about 4 months!  Today he was spending time with Rebekah and they decided to make gingerbread Greek gods and some other things. We start with the king of the gods, the god of thunder and [Continue]

Up early for a Saturday as Rebekah, Thorne and Caleb are off practising for the Tour De Trigs and Martin is giving them a lift to the South Downs so they can walk for 20 miles in unknown territory.   He is also popping in to see parents and deliver some vinegar and a crochet book [Continue]

FUNGI – yes I am shouting it’s what you do on one of Sue Bailey’s fungi walks. You look around find some fungi Yell “fungi” at the top of your voice and a crowd comes running and Sue tells us what it is we’ve found. We didn’t find an awful lot at Parkhurst. Then as [Continue]

I managed a night away without the rest of the family and amongst other nice things went to visit Guildford Cathedral.  One of the things I loved was a new piece of art called Cruciform Vision. I thought we could have a go at creating something similar but it was a bit complicated so looking [Continue]

I am ashamed to say that it took me so long (about a year) to get Jonathan to the Tae Kwon Do class he wanted to go to that it has changed venue and into a Karate class. However having finally got there he is enjoying it immensely and is very pleased with his new suit and [Continue]

We visited a space event at the Needles Battery yesterday – celebrating the 40th anniversary of a rocket launch from the IoW.  Now this ticked two vital boxes for home educators 1. it was free 2. it was educational Unsurprisingly then we bumped into a number of our HEing friends at this event.   One did [Continue]

I have made a crocheted pencil case for my Sharpie pens.   this had the advantage of combining two of my new obsessions!  Making a pencil case for the Sharpies gave me an easy crochet project to practice on but making something actually useful – the Sharpies keep getting lost in my big cardboard box [Continue]