Boots, beaches and bank holidays!Oh and for Tim – Brother Beyond (or is that 90s? Bananarama then!)Not a bad day all things considered! Up late at 9.30am – although I had not got to bed till gone 1am as Teeny woke at midnight just as I slid into bed and found my page in my …
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a lovely shot of Monster last weekend
more for the backdrop than the plane – a real landmark of home for me…
parachutes (this might be the wrong way up actually!)
Teeny and cousin M sharing a chair
a fab act – the geese are so well trained and when the wind blew the right way you could hear him cooing and talking to them
Teeny dancing – it all started to look a bit like a festival what with the mud and tents and portaloos!
in the Utterly Butterly plane, which he was thrilled to see up in the air later complete with the pretty blonde ladies dancing around on it that we had seen walking round the craft tent earlier – he’s going to do it when he grows up apparantly!
Monster in a helicopter
Airshows, alcohol and alliteration…In a move blatantly stolen from Merry’s blog I’m going to work through the alphabet. It improves my vocabulary, challenges the mind and since the departure of the google ads I have struggled for titles. Finally it was easy today to find three As!Had a lovely weekend so far – and we …
I got the poncho, I got the poncho, la la la la la la la!!!Well not got in have it in my possession but my (new best!) friend Kerry has just phoned to say she dropped by Matalan to have a look for me and found one and bought it – I’ll be getting it …
I have been epiphanised! Move over lazy buggers I’m coming to join you!I bought a whole Amazon basket full of books on HE a year ago. I joined all sorts of lists, joined EO, HEAS, subscribed to Choice in Education, got email from MuddlePuddle, UK Families HE, Fluff, Madcow (in Manchester) WHEN (in Sussex), joined …
Ah ha sorted!Earlier why isn’t she learning, why isn’t he moving forward dilema remedied. Today (and you may have already noticed this!) I have spent quite a bit of time on the pc, to entertain and engage the children Monster has been playing with a huge Brio track we built this morning with bridges and …
Patch of Puddles?No, not the recommendation for a very good HE blog (although of course it is one:-) ) but I am refering to the state of my house today.The potty training is erm, experimental in its success and I am aware of at least four puddles so far. I fully expect to discover more …
I am ungoogled!In the interests of proving to myself I have not been subjecting my children to huge security and safety risks I have just been off and googled me and the kids and come up with nothing. I have tried both my names (clearly ‘Nic’ is not my whole name!) and even my email …
Some Home Education Musings…My Dad has a current obessesion with how little he thinks Teeny talks. This is in comparison to me as a baby (now I allegedly was capable of full conversations by a year old, potty trained at about 10 months old, the cleverest baby in my parents social circle! Wonder what exactly …
Forgot to mention – addition to curriculum covered..Reckon we should do all our lessons in Matalan – it’s just such a condusive environment to learning! Whilst in there today we also covered some biology and (although accidental) comedic drama: Monster was being a little bugger dragging the pushchair about, generally bashing into stuff and winding …
Mid week educational round-upHmmm, let me see what have we covered?Socialisation – This week we have mixed and mingled with a wide variety of children and adults. Some have been from the ‘HE Community’, some have been pre-school and some already within the clutches of the British Education System. There were a mix of ages, …
At the hands of Teeny – random acts of mischief! unraveled toilet roll a la Andrex puppy; standing on top of toilet dragging assorted stuff from behind it down onto the floor – this has been achieved in the downstairs main bathroom with the air freshener, in the en suite showerroom off our bedroom with …
Happy Tuesday, positive Nic…Another good day today. Woke to pouring rain interspersed with sunny spells. Had got myself and the kids dressed but as I was about to pack the picnic at about 10am it really, really rained. Given the plan for the day was to go here with Rachel and E – truly a …