on even more snow!!

Toby greets the sun

Where's Buddha?

still scary down at the woodshed!

Go and read the Tasty Herbalist’s Winter newsletter, it’s wonderful

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random bug on a sunflower leaf

education:

Potatoes for Schools registration is now open for 2011 – free seed potatoes, available to home educators too

The BBC Scottish History section is very good, nice timelines going on.

on self esteem:

We Teach What We Are - a blog from Wayne Dyer on the best we can do for young people.

Page 20 of Ladies First Magazine has a beautiful article about womens body image and self esteem.

and there is an excellent article on aspergers here

…and a small mention for Twitter, some of the above were passed on through there. Last weekend we won tickets to an early preview of Despicable Me, complete with many freebies, thanks to following Cineworld on there. Very funny film, one of the few weve seen that actually makes the 3D element worthwhile. Follow us on our vegan family account or as Frugaluk where we pass on many competitions

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…with stories of a dinner lady sacked for telling the truth about bullying (I can vouch for such an act being akin to this, though stoning is done with tongues and a twisting of the truth these days in this country) and two policewomen being prevented from looking after each others children by Ofsted…

Worry no more! An article in the Guardian from 2007 gives an interesting insight into how children are prioritised in the household of Yvette Cooper (Childrens’ Secretary) and Ed Balls (Education Minister). So there we are, all is well… we can all go back to being

hmm… could blog mojo be returning?

NB: no offense was intended to sheep in this post. They are commonly misrepresented as being too stupid to think for themselves as is referenced above, but are actually rather good parents and beautiful creatures

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Article in The Sun about Scott’s life.

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Thoroughly enjoyed a readathon of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Davie aquired one of only 2 copies left in Asda, £5) – very exciting, lots of thought provoking factoids

Went rather well, surprisingly so really, with Doreen Virtue’s Goddesses and Angels, which I’ve just finished.

 Always loved the Horrible Histories books, read a rather good interview with their author Terry Deary yesterday. Shocking that he doesn’t like marmite though…

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New UK vegan magazine Off The Hoof – you can download it for free on their site

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here - lots of interesting interviews which you can listen to for free each day or sign up to get them all. Not just about raw food, lots of conscious parenting subjects covered :)

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 enjoyed watching Laura play yesterday This article mentions the fact she is home educated (as, of course were were the Williams sisters).

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Nice article about a boy cartoonist. He is home educated, has aspergers and skeletal dysplasia and his parents also suspect dyslexia. His site of daily cartoons is here – fabulous!

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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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