Jonathan’s Birthday
Jonathan had a lovely 10th birthday day on Friday. We always let the birthday person choose the food for the day, Rebekah and Jonathan plan this in great detail months in advance, Ruth [Continue]
One Of Those Days
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 [Continue]
Winchester Visit
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 [Continue]
Monday Joy Dare
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 [Continue]
Being properly home-educated again
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 [Continue]
Productively lazy Saturday (is that an oxymoron?)
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 [Continue]
Giving Up Facebook For Lent
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 [Continue]
Shrove Tuesday
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 [Continue]
Blog Catch Up
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). [Continue]
Valentine’s Day
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 [Continue]