At Corfe we did a retelling of Roald Dhal’s The Twits. The idea is that you learn the gist of a chapter and retell that part so we get the whole story told by a variety of different people.  This year our story tellers aged from about 4 up to – well I’m 39 and [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]

One morning this week I had a chance to just sit quietly at breakfast time and realised that the table was full of my favourite things. The first daffodils we’ve had this year: A lovely scone with home made jelly (apple and sloe gin flavoured). A tea pot full of Earl Grey tea – the [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]

the council want to close nine of our 11 libraries.  In protest many people on the Isle of Wight decided to empty the two libraries they want to leave – to show how two libraries will not cope with demand from the whole island.  So people were encouraged to remove 30 books each (the max [Continue]

Jonathan joining the rest of the family of bookworms (they are your kids honestly Martin!). I thought he was interested in the Vikings and found this easy reader in the library for him, he told me he was actually more interested in the Romans so we’ll have to find out more about them instead. We’ve [Continue]