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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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books of the moment
The Artists Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - an intensely powerful and synchronistic way of clearing blocks, old psychological patterns and dysfunctions of the past. Get doing your morning pages, they're amazing!
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fabulous guide to foraging in Britain.
full version or pocket guide (both uk amazon)
amazing Russian books these: spirituality; growing; living naturally; raising children with love and respect; quite magical. Release any preconceived ideas of how life should be (or books) and create your space of love!
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A very well researched novel which, alongside Picoult's usual 'heading to a trial' plot, explores many facets of and perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome. The potential and common effects of AS on siblings is especially well documented here. As gripping and informative a book as Nineteen Minutes
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a great storehouse of food growing knowledge from Dirty Nails :)
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"Girls just wanna have... wanna have fun...", and we still are :)
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Popular Posts
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Tag Archives: big bad
Bring on the Learning Revolution!
The title of Ken Robinson’s new follow up talk to his wonderful Schools Kill Creativity one from 2006. His book, The Element is also excellent Related posts:maths trekbeaches, jellies, jags and rollsda vinci
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 snow [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
earthsea
Our very small, very local home ed group went to see Tales from Earthsea yesterday courtesy of National Schools Films Week (link deactivated for demanding passwords for just showing it!) – do like a bit of anime, us. There was one school in with us – primary 4-7s. It was a bit of a shame for [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Posted in home educational bits, odd, trips
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comments on education
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 [...]
