Well so much for the idea that the new legislation that comedy duo Balls and Badman want to introduce will only be good for home educators, it has done much harm even while it is only proposed legislation, not least in the amount of time it means that we home educated parents have wasted on [Continue]

Jonathan has been very inspired, by a recent trip to Jane and Jonathan’s house for dinner, to make paella “like Jonathan did”.   So we had a go the other evening. First he prepared as much as possible in advance. Here is Jonathan cooking the mushrooms and keeping an eye on the rice. Jonathan has two pots [Continue]

Ruth has been wanting to do some felting for some time and yesterday was the day we made it happen.  She said she wanted to make something “useful”  not just a flat piece of felt, so beads were it. First you choose the colours you want and gently pull off fine bits of wool. Make [Continue]

We have learnt that pretzels are traditionally made during Lent. Apparently some monks used to pray by putting their hands on their shoulders, left hand to right shoulder and vice versa.  They made pretzels to remind them of the shape the arms made and hence to be a reminder to pray more during Lent. You make the [Continue]