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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, cake eating, woodland walking... no set subject matter here really though :)
The more ancient archives are the old home ed diary starting in June 2005 and evolving on from there.
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swan lake
There were swans on the loch yesterday
Had a lovely day with friends morphing into a very balletic afternoon which was great fun. It’s been wonderful rediscovering ballet being for enjoyment, rather than an eternal striving (not to mention starving) for perfection. Looked out the old class music etc. I have but it’s all on cassettes [...]
Posted in books, films, friends, reviews, woods
Also tagged dance, friendship, vegan, vegetarian, wildlife
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among the snowdrops
more snow… some little bits I’ve been meaning to mention spread among the lovely signs of spring to come
Wayne Dyer’s new program: Excuses Begone! – been enjoying listening to that – he is always so motivational and uplifting.
The Bristol Dyslexia Centre has some interesting stuff on it’s site including some free educational games taken from the [...]
blog, Illich and broth
Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too
Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the [...]
Posted in blogroll, books, food, home educational bits, links, reviews
Also tagged education, reading, soup
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just when you worry that the world is mad…
…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 [...]
Posted in articles, films, home educational bits, odd
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remembrance
Very good weekend. Yesterday we watched the ceremony at the Cenotaph on TV – kids found it very interesting and insisted on continuing to listen to the rest of it on Radio 4 in the car on the way over to my Mum’s for lunch. Saw various war memorials with their new wreaths on the way. [...]
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 [...]
home educated children steal school bus!
An education authority spokesperson said today, “this would never have happened if the children had been attending school (the article would have had a different title) – it is disgraceful”.
The home educating mother of these dangerous, free thinking kids has admitted she was drinking tea and laughing raucously at the time of the incident. She [...]
Posted in home educational bits, odd, trips
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Both from the Independent. Now I have only glanced at this years Big Brother, haven’t got into it at all, mainly because any small snatches I’ve seen seemed shallow beyond belief. However some interesting points are made in this article: Big Brother and the Failed Generation Grampian may have the greatest success in those league tables [...]
piano metaphor
Been playing this one over in my mind (yes it’s going to be fun). The previous owners of the house gave us their old piano – as you know if you’ve been paying attention. If not – then that’s no golden time for you this week :evil: Sorry, back to metaphor, or actually analogy as it’s [...]
you may turn your paper over now…
Printed out some graph paper as weve finished the jotters like that and off we went. Did the equations here and I think everyone understood it quite well. It’s with something like this that the one to one – or one to two in our case – teaching really come into it’s own. Any little mistake [...]
amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.