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raised beds

By Lucy | Published August 24, 2010

We have 3 new ones for next season, hopefully one more to come Planning to give over the whole allotment bit at the bottom of the garden to potatoes next year, with the chives, rhubarb and some other bits (maybe leeks? nasturtiums?) for biodiversity. It’s been really noticable this year that the more food we [...]

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frogs and barre

By Lucy | Published March 19, 2010

It’s all very magical down there in the pond – just been out listening to them tonight by the light of the moon Below should be a short video of them – turn up your volume to hear their frenzied ribbuting! Apologies for the poor picture quality – they are more shy than they appear [...]

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a day in the trees

By Lucy | Published October 15, 2008

   Had a wonderful home ed group visit with the Rangers at Speymouth Forest – huge turnout. We all always learn so much from the rangers – this time it was about survival if you’re lost, priorities of air, shelter, water, food, fire etc. The kids spent the best of part of two hours designing [...]

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cold frame and pumpkins

By Lucy | Published May 7, 2007

We thought a cold frame was a good idea for Dan’s pumpkins but what a price they are – especially considering many of them are just glorified boxes with see-through lids… so it was off to the treasure trove sheds again. Calls of ‘I’ve found panes of glass’ and ‘ooh, windows’ resounded round the garden. [...]

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dinobot

By Lucy | Published March 13, 2006

Afternoon: Charlotte worked on some pictures for a story her and a friend are sending in to Blue Peter and Daniel blogged and read up on SpaceWeather.com about tomorrow’s lunar eclipse and blue suns. The kids raked through the box of science sets and bits this morning and decided to make this DinoBot Quite a [...]

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mud clock and zooks

By admin | Published February 27, 2006

Had a lovely chat with an old friend of mine today, a fellow home educator who used to live near us. She has written two most interesting websites recently: Bolshy Breastfeeding (**edit in – no longer there but she may have something else exciting coming soon!! ) – a great article on there ‘the good baby [...]

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Dallas Dhu and Findhorn

By Lucy | Published January 30, 2006

Hard, crunchy frost overnight leading to a lovely sunny day. Love waking up surrounded by such large trees outside. Kids wrote out some postcards this morning. Then we headed off to Findhorn to see the new wind turbines and we also walked round the ecological houses. Did a little bit of shopping in Forres then [...]

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heart and art

By admin | Published January 19, 2006

Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers – some quite interesting things on here, they vary in quality. Studying chocolate changing from solid to liquid and back again sounds good – my kids have done that many times of course… were very cultured It’s all heart and art here today. Received some nice bits from people early [...]

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bullying and anatomical colouring

By admin | Published January 9, 2006

Merry has written an interesting post on school bullying policies on her blog. Well worth a look – no wonder so many people leave school with such a negative outlook on life and low self esteem. Bullying is more or less just accepted as the norm now, certainly in state schools. What sort of lesson [...]

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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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