I’m having a catch up on uploading photos so a month late here are some pics from Easter. We had the Easter tree outside church to welcome people in. In church we had a time of celebration and for some reason the kids were popping balloons. After church we headed off to Culver cliff to do [Continue]

Martin has been leading a few walks in the walking festival, all drawn from a new walks booklet he has been involved in developing.  Yesterday we took Jonathan along with us (girls too blistered from Walk the Wight) and did a brilliant walk starting at  Mottistone heading down the coastal path to Brook  and past the Longstone [Continue]

I know I’ll blog in detail later but here are a few brief thoughts on our trip. London Wetland Centre – nicely landscaped but not as good for birds as Arundel or Slimbridge. Richmond Park – good deer, free parking, rubbish Viennese fancies, chance to exercise my leaflet fetish  - the kids enjoyed this more than the Wetland [Continue]

Even on a bright sunny bank holiday Monday it is possible to find an empty beach on the Isle of Wight if you know where to look. We had friends visiting from the mainland and wanted to show then to show them some of the island that they wouldn’t normally get to see.  We were [Continue]

Our Easter tree: The eggs we’ve decorated for rolling: The bag I felted as an Easter basket: I always associate daffodils with Easter (and I just love them): This year we’ve had an Easter tree at church too: The Easter Tree and basket filled with chocolate and eggs on Easter morning: [Continue]

I’m really behind on the blogging again. A few weeks ago there was a supermoon which lead to a super low tide. Rebekah had to go to her play perfiormance but the rest of us took advantage of this opportunity to get to places that we couldn’t usually get to. We headed out in Brian and cooked [Continue]

Well Martin and I have been married 20 years (a couple of weeks ago – I’m behind with our blogging). We exchanged some small gifts. Martin was very organised and bought these lovely earrings and necklace from our friend June with her lovely Goddess Jewels some time in advance.  However he wasn’t organised enough to remember to [Continue]

Now if I think you can learn quite a bit with a cardboard box then I think you can learn just about anything with food. Jonathan and I were participating in one of our favourite guilty pleasures (watching cookery programs)and were enjoying the Hairy Bikers one afternoon.  One of the recipes they made was a Swiss roll, [Continue]

I wrote most of the following last year since writing it Ruth has passed her maths GCSE with a B – not sure why i didn’t post this then but thought I’d put it up now as I’ve been thinking about incidental learning a lot again. When I was doing my teacher training (must have been year 3 or [Continue]

We all know that small children love cardboard boxes, they can be sat in, tipped over and turned into pretty much anything with a bit of imagination – but can they do anything for an older child?  We spent a day where our main focus was directed by a box and this is what we [Continue]