We were inspired by the art projects website to make some patterned skulls. Jonathan did one on orange paper first. This was completed when we listened to How To Cheat A Dragon’s Curse read in the luscious Scottish tones of David Tennant. Ruth made bead things and I drew pumpkins using these lovely pastel things. He was unhappy with [Continue]
Since we came home from the holiday we’ve been spending lots and lots of time revising for the girls environmental management iGCSE. I say we meaning all of us. The girls have been working though past papers and Jonathan has had to be pretty much gagged to stop him answering all the questions. This has shown me once [Continue]
I am very pleased to have completed a crocheted hat. Martin is less pleased as my new interest in crochet means that I have delayed yet again completing his socks. [Continue]
The huts at Thorness Bay are something of a recurring theme on our blog, but on this occasion it is Martin posting about them, not Susan. We’re just back from a great evening at Heron Hut, with extremely grateful thanks to the Bailey-Oliver’s for the ongoing generous sharing of their wonderful space. I spent most of the evening [Continue]
For the first time since our HE group has been going we didn’t camp with them at Corf. We did manage to get out there for a couple of days (and actually did stay one night in a tent a friend was leaving temporarily empty). We missed lots and the only photos I managed to get [Continue]
At Corfe we did a retelling of Roald Dhal’s The Twits. The idea is that you learn the gist of a chapter and retell that part so we get the whole story told by a variety of different people. This year our story tellers aged from about 4 up to – well I’m 39 and [Continue]
I have a playlist entitled Bath Tub Songs. This is because they are songs that I listen to and immediately give the same sense of well-being and relaxation that sinking into a hot bath tub does. Some of the songs included are Drive by The Cars, Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton and I’ll Stand By You by The Pretenders. There [Continue]
I have been wanting to learn to crochet for a while now and we had some discussion about various crafts at LZ camp this year so I decided I would just have a go at it. Having got on well with the Ladybird how to knit book when I was just starting I thought their crochet book would be a good starting point too. I [Continue]
Ruth is part of a team of home educated kids called Manic Mechanics who are entering the Landrover 4×4 technology challenge. Last week they were in the regional finals in Reading. As you can see they must have been inspired by Willie Wonka’s Umpa Lumpa’s. They have been working for a few months on making their car, [Continue]
Our HE group was lucky enough to be invited to be guinea pigs for a new Estuary Explorers project. We were hoping to go along and learn all sorts of things about estuary birds and their habitats through activities and games. Jonathan and I were both feeling pretty yucky but decided we would go anyway. Ric (formally Ric the [Continue]
