I simply can’t work out how to get ‘free’ music so I’m satisfying my clompy DM footed meander down memory lane with youtube 🙂 Stevie Nicks – Rooms on Fire James – Sit Down EMF – Unbelievable KLF – 3am Eternal – this one takes me back so quick I lose my breath! KLF – …
Author Archives: Nic
Now because I’m trying to push that youtube clip down a bit
because it is cocking up my template I’ll blog about today now. Also because we have house guests arriving later and I have not remotely prepared for them so I’ll not get the chance to blog later. I didn’t do a lot this morning, mainly because I got up really late (I wasn’t actually asleep, …
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That maths post then…
Way back when I first started to think about Home Education I spent lots of money amassing the various ‘tools’ I thought I’d require in order to do it properly. These included some things which have indeed proved useful – a laminator, a subscription to enchanted learning, a blog ;), membership to all the various …
If I hadn’t seen such riches…
Anybody? And if you get that one will you get this? ‘Your purple prose just gives you away’. I drove past my old sixth form college on Friday and pointed it out to Davies and Scarlett. Now I can’t pretend for one moment that I did the whole sixth form thing properly, like so many …
No laptop time…
Friday – The children and I had been out and about all week or having people over so I deliberately kept Friday free for some time at home. Ady ended up working from home as his car spent the morning in the garage having some work done to it. I took him to the garage …
Teaching Thursday
I had a glimpse today of what it might be like to teach. It was a nice enough half hour given I relaxed a long way from what I had planned to do and went with the flow but of course teachers wouldn’t get luxuries like that, and they’d have way more than three children …
Christmas card list
I’ve got me, Ali, Helen, Merry, Sally (can you email me your address Sally please), Kirsty – anyone else?
Birthday!
Happy 10th Birthday to Poppy Portico! Have a wonderful day, love from Ady, Nic, Davies & Scarlett xxx
LOADS of socialising
I had the dentist first thing this morning for the check up on my wisdom tooth and review of the xray from the hospital. Lucy came and sat in the house with all the children while I dashed across the road to the dentists – love being walking distance from the docs and the dentist, …
If I’d dressed for my day…
I would have donned a bee outfit and been all stripey black and yellow with all the busyness I buzzed with. But of course that would be mad, who knows in advance what the day is going to pan out like? What if I’d worn a stripey outfit and a pair of those bouncy shapes …
Our own personal Mr Bean
We live along a fairly busy road. It links the A27 (which runs along the south coast and turns into the M27 at various points) with the A259 which is the actual coast road. It is used daily by all the emergency services, has the sea at one end as well as a large industrial …
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For some (very obscure) reason I must have been on a mailing list for UKLifeLeague. I simply cannot imagine why. But I had an email from them yesterday saying that they are now encouraging all their members to at least consider Home Schooling for their children. I think this is possibly the worst piece of …
Badgers? They don’t exist you know
Well certainly not in Lancing any more anyway! 😆 Off to MM Home Ed group today. Both the children had a good time there. I’d asked them not to go outside today and they stayed indoors and found plenty to do instead which was good. Davies and Freya played together for ages while Tarly did …
A dilema…
Two people have called me ‘Nikki’ today. One of them is someone I will probably never see again so that’s fine, but the other one is someone I see pretty much weekly. I HATE the name Nikki, quite aside from it not being my name (I answer mostly and most happily to Nic although I …
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
This post has been in draft form for about 3 weeks along with several others which were even older. I’ve deleted them as they were either so unfinished it was not worth continuing with them, so outdated they were irrelevant or I had rewritten them in some other form already. This one could very well …
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Happy Birthday to…
Alys! Have a lovely second birthday with lots of love from Ady, Nic, Davies and Scarlett xxx
Internet closed for business…
Where is everyone? My sage feeds are all staying grey rather than going black and bold 🙁 We continued in our productiveness today. Davies spent hours playing with the plasticine while Tarly played with the till and the pretend food with their games occassionally crossing over to play together. Tarly also spent ages playing with …
Productive Sunday morning…
And now I’ve got a headache! 😆 I showed Davies his snail animation this morning and he was really pleased with it. He wanted to do something different and actually animate a character. He had rather ambitious ideas about something like morphing one character into another which I managed to talk him down from explaining …
What else then?
This morning was a lazy one, filled with not a lot Some watching TV and films, lots of sitting around drinking tea and the children with some sort of sixth sense suddenly decided to play with the pretend food and ELC electronic till and pretend money that I’ve been eyeing up with a view to …