Got our Coast (accompanies the BBC series) pack today in the post – a very nice, fact packed booklet with some beautiful postcards in it. (no longer up). It came with lots of info. on the OU – I believe you can start a degree with them at 14 (or indeed at 34)…well you never know…
Fabulous series, so much learning.
Charlotte and I have just made some Leek and Potato soup – she has decided to keep a recipe book from now on and is designing the cover as I type. A few subjects in one here – art and design, home economics, nutrition (biology), chemistry with different reactions of ingredients, maths with weighing & measuring, spelling and grammar – classic home ed. at work! While eating the soup we discussed our memories of cooking lessons at school. I droned on about the unhealthy dishes I was taught to make at Stinklaw Academy (much maligned state school – now famous for gang riots and unchecked bullying with parents still facing outright denial) – the sick making eggs mornay (I’ve never smelt cheese like that before or since, thank goodness – I’m convinced we were being given rotten ingredients) and lemon pie. Charlotte expressed some bitterness at the cookery teacher who asked “which one of you is the vegan?” and made her do the washing up while everyone else ate egg sandwiches. Daniel pointed us down a more positive path with memories of the Waldorf school. He loved the traditional Catalan sandwich he made with the Spanish teacher and Charlotte recalled the Christmas Jewel Biscuits which I’m pretty sure were taken from our site – still very nice of them to look for vegan recipes. I also witnessed older children making vegetable curry with rice and hummus there – much better. Anyway, we all enjoyed soup with seconds today and no rotten cheese
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fabulous guide to foraging in Britain.
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A very well researched novel which, alongside Picoult's usual 'heading to a trial' plot, explores many facets of and perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome. The potential and common effects of AS on siblings is especially well documented here. As gripping and informative a book as 
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