Since we came home from the holiday we’ve been spending lots and lots of time revising for the girls environmental management iGCSE.  I say we meaning all of us.   The girls have been working though past papers and Jonathan has had to be pretty much gagged to stop him answering all the questions.  This has shown me once [Continue]

I am very pleased to have completed a crocheted hat.  Martin is less pleased as my new interest in crochet means that I have delayed yet again completing his socks. [Continue]

I have been wanting to learn to crochet for a while now and we had some discussion about various crafts at LZ camp this year so I decided I would just have a go at it.  Having got on well with the Ladybird how to knit book when I was just starting I thought their crochet book would be a good starting point too. I [Continue]

We all know that small children love cardboard boxes, they can be sat in, tipped over and turned into pretty much anything with a bit of imagination – but can they do anything for an older child?  We spent a day where our main focus was directed by a box and this is what we [Continue]

For a few years I have been planning to celebrate Pi day but I kept missing it.  This year - despite the fact that we were really too busy – we decided we would clebrate it. Pi day is held on March 14th in American terms 3:14. I invited people from Our HE group to join us and we celebrated Pi [Continue]

So girls have dashed out to circus with Sue, for a change we’ll need to do the pick up later – usually we manage to not need to do any of the running about on a Thursday night -but tonight Martin will go out – I’m a bit rubbish at collecting in the evenings. Martin’s meeting has [Continue]

I’ve blogged every other day this week so I have decided to blog everyday for the whole week so we can have a record of a week in our lives. So in the interests of full disclosure here’s what we did after I had blogged yesterday.  the thing with home education is that many of us don’t [Continue]

Jonathan and I had plans for today.  Yesterday Jonathan had made some shortbread and crispie cakes at the HE meet – but they weren’t dairy free (I hadn’t been on top of things enough to remember to take alternative ingredients) so he couldn’t eat them.  He was happy to give them away to the rest of us [Continue]

Ruth was given a set of Mulberry paints – these are made from mulberry bark and give a very interesting 3D texture. I have had a look for them on the web and can only find one website about them and no stockists in the UK so goodness knows where my mum got them from. [Continue]

We made a few edible Christmas creations this year. Some fudge and some of Nigella’s puddinis and some vodka soaked blackberries covered in chocolate. A selection of Lemon cakes: Rebekah has been working on chocolate creations – marbled penguins and chocolate slabs: [Continue]