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]

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]

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]

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]

I got a text from Rebekah last night (she was at festival and I was at home making chicken curry).  She said “My knitted socks are the best things!! My feet are the only warm dry part of me!:) Nice to feel appreciated. [Continue]

Jonathan and I got soaked coming home from the festival early but the girls stayed until the evening – things definitely got muddier! [Continue]

So yesterday was world wide knit in public day.  I was at the Isle of Wight Festival (volunteering for Gift to Nature) so managed to knit pretty publicly there, not in front of the main-stage though but in the much more intimate venue the Kashmir Cafe. So here I am watching my friend Mick Watson play some [Continue]

The Learning Zone had a variety show on Friday.  A chance to show case the many talents the children, adults and families together have.   We had stories, songs, circus activities, poems, music and some uncategorised. So follows a small sample of the amazing talent that is the Learning Zone Who will every forget that to get the [Continue]

Here are my new walking boots before heading out for their first trip – I’m very pleased with them as they seem very comfortable. I started using these boots for the  Isle of Wight walking festival. There are apparently over 600 walks to choose from over the course of two weeks led by all sorts [Continue]

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]