candy and cadfael

seem to be a lot of these reports around at the mo…

Anxiety ‘haunts primary schools’

Half of children theft victims as mentioned in comments

and the somewhat ridiculous Boring breaks lead to bullying - yes, why didn’t we all see it before? Some chairs arranged in a certain way and better swings will ’stamp out bullying in all it’s forms’. I’m so glad we have such paragons of intelligence and virtue in the Department for Children, Schools and Families…

and in complete contrast… we just watched We Don’t Go to School  on Teachers TV – unfortunately it’s not online yet but is repeated tonight at 10pm  and then 2am in the morning on the TV channel. What a great programme, felt myself welling up once or twice. It looks at several familes and how they go about HE and also talks to adults who were home edded and parents whose children are now grown. If you get a chance to see it, take it :D So nice that it didn’t have the usual school rep coming out and saying “but our schools are just spiffing – I don’t have any experience of home ed but it must be bad, look how wonderful schools are, excuse me while I just replace my blindfold and earplugs (LEA issue – proven to reduce instances of bullying to0 if used correctly, all the time)”.

We have a little houseguest just now - our friend Lynda’s dog Candy. Toby and her are getting along very well, she doesn’t boss him around now she’s in his home instead and they’re playing nicely :) Have failed to get any good pics of them as they don’t sit still for long but:

 and here’s a lovely bottle I found in a shed here covered in dirt – cleaned up so nicely I doubt it is authentically old but it’s gorgeous anyway

Read through our leaflets picked up at the Abbey only to notice in horror that they all said 20p on them! Did give a donation that we worked out should almost cover the cost of these but, whoops! Off to watch some Cadfael… hopefully he won’t be knocking at the door to investigate a theft anytime soon

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