Lucy, Lucy quite contrary

…lots of gardening been going on, between torrential rain showers. Weve planted up propragaters with various planned things: kale, brocolli (early sprouting), celery and tomatoes;  toms I intend growing on in the front porch. I won’t detail them but I may have nightmares about the strange plants the kids chose and that are now growing in their rooms!! I have a new little polytunnel thing and am experimenting with earlier growing of salad leaves in there at the moment. Hopefully gales will not steal it away across the fields.

On a related note: the British Potato Council ’s free potatoes for schools growing kits are available to home educators too… though I think it’s too late to register for this year but you can get your name down for next (for primary age kids). A lady called Carolyn Redmond confirmed that it’s open for HEs and people have been putting that in the promotional code bit

Been looking through the BBC education news section… the song ‘Mad World’ seem to run as incidental music in my head there sometimes. But I thought this was a great idea, have always felt that homework was a such a waste of time, with the exception of reading (though given the standard of the reading scheme books my kids got from school that was quite useless too. The books we had at home taught them to read and love literature). Then this issue of obese children, I don’t really see how schools can counteract the eating habits learned and enabled at home. The article does detail some interesting stuff going on, involving parents too though. I recall an incident with the free fruit for P1 and 2 kids at school. Parents had to sign their permission for the children to have the fruit and one parent refused, saying her child did not like fruit or veg and wasn’t to have any. Now the child in question tasted someone elses grapes and then came asking for some – we were not allowed to give them. We turned a blind eye to her taking a pack for herself – how daft is that? Same child only ever had sweets in her packed lunch and was quite overweight

So, a little blog, finding a new way ahead. Will unfold itself naturally in time I’m sure… feels strange not mentioning some stuff now deliberately (like I ever remembered and wrote it all anyway :rolls: ). So ending up with a couple of photos:

a favourite game

The sun has come out so we are off on our bikes before the next rain… going on different runs now out on tarmacked roads. What a treat after the rough going of the wood tracks, where you can ride over something akin to a bear trap and be flung into a bush with no warning. Were coming back much less bruised

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