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were back and article

By admin | Published July 17, 2006

…arrived home this morning, still engulfed by laundry and unpacking and feeling totally exhausted but the longest blog post in history will be written in due course (took 198 photos, will have to be selective). Here’s a little preview – pictured incident was not my fault but an error in the fire alarm system I swear ;) [...]

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special children

By Lucy | Published May 14, 2006

Really must stop procrastinating and get on with some housework but nice things keep arriving in my inbox today – again from the EO list, this The Ten Commandments for Parents of Special Children though I think it really applies to all children (who of course are all special): 1. Take one day at a [...]

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a skull called joey

By admin | Published February 6, 2006

“School Trips can Change Lives” – common sense really. Some interesting comments in there – seeing how schools often only have 1 or 2 trips a year it’s hard to see how kids can view them as anything other than a special day or one off occasion. Some very interesting post this morning from Charlotte’s [...]

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creations of a cakely nature

By admin | Published February 3, 2006

Some things we came home to: two exciting postcards from the group, one from Japan and one from Antartica from this man. He’s got some fabulous pictures up there. Were going to send him back one of Brodie Castle. Charlotte has done a page on Antartica and Daniel did Japan. Our wall map is getting [...]

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hogmany

By admin | Published December 31, 2005

We all did the meditation below – was really good. For anyone else who liked it, it’s from The Meditation Book by John Randolph Price. Just having a quiet family day – Charlotte has looked out her cookery book again and is ready to write down recipes for roast potatoes and sage and onion stuffing, [...]

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knex and the terminator

By admin | Published November 14, 2005

Thanks to Catriona again for this interesting article on autism from yesterday’s Observer magazine – here – goes well with the Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical – the screening test is wonderful, pointing out the many unfortunate habits of NTs! Charlotte much better but still slightly peely-wally (Scots expressions for a bit [...]

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ceramics

By admin | Published November 9, 2005

Really good day today. Drove up into the Highlands to meet other home edders at The Ceramic Experience (no longer there) near Cawdor. Biggest HE gathering weve been to, with two groups joining together now. At least 20 children aged 0-15 there. We all painted our selected items – Charlotte had a kangaroo, Daniel a frog [...]

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arty farty

By admin | Published November 7, 2005

The second part of the home education diary from the Telegraph here Bead bugs for Charlotte yesterday – very fiddly but fun: Love all these colours – Willow on lilac and beech leaves on riverbank: Had a very slobby day yesterday, getting up late and having cooked breakfast, reading novels and watching films – very restful [...]

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sunny bmx

By Lucy | Published October 6, 2005

Lovely sunny, fresh day today – last day of school term up here before the ‘tattie’ holidays, so called due to teenagers often gaining holiday jobs picking potatoes. Drove past my old secondary school today and saw a pupil being arrested and taken away by police (incident had caused a traffic jam so we had [...]

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Minty – Harriet Tubman

By admin | Published September 10, 2005

Good little Astronomy site for kids – Astrocentral Read ‘Minty’ today about Harriet Tubman’s childhood – all of us quite moved by it. Got the children to do a book report on it which they both thought would be really hard. Tried to point out that it is a good opportunity to express your own [...]

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