By Other Means...By Other Means...home educating, vegan family in Scotland Articles
Glasgow aftermath
2008-02-27 10:29:00 Glasgow in a bag has pride of place (out of it’s bag) - I’ve always loved little wooden buildings When we went to the school museum we discovered it didn’t open until 11 so were an hour early - hopped on underground and went into town. The result of this was naughty purchases in ... More About: Glasgow , Daniel
Purely Pictorial Glasgow (mouseovers)
2008-02-23 12:06:00 short version: for those with high tolerance for photographic excesses click below More About: Glasgow , Pictorial , Daniel
pond, solar and hammer fun
2008-02-17 16:58:00 Davie and the kids worked outside this afternoon to get the central fountain in the pond going (has not worked since we got here). They went to B&Q to purchase needed pipe bits etc. they got it going but they’re going to have to get something more aesthetically pleasing than a hose fitment to go in it ... More About: Solar , Daniel , Pond , Charlotte , Hammer
waste, free fuel, landfill? education, edukasion, ejyookayshun
2008-02-15 14:24:00 The interim report of the primary review (quite interesting to read the real thing instead of media takes on it there) has spurned a flurry of home ed related articles which is great - I feel much good may come of this. More people will be aware of their choices at the very least. Usual state-school-apologist numpties ... More About: Education , Fuel , Free , Waste
paper making and snowdrops
2008-02-13 21:27:00 Wonderful home ed group paper making workshop today Was nice to chat with some people who I haven’t managed to talk much with before and some super paper was made. Also got to hold a very new little baby for a while… you forget how small they are (and he isn’t actually very small as babies ... More About: Paper
sanding down, Chinese New year and some films
2008-02-09 17:48:00 Been watching quite a few films. Atonement - brilliant, really loved it. I read the book a few years back and was worried that the film might not live up to it, but I think it captured the atmosphere and story very well. Went to have a Chinese meal on Thursday as part of our study ... More About: New Year , Films , Chinese New Year , Year
articles
2008-02-08 09:20:00 on testing in schools from the beeb here noteworthy in that one of the key findings mentioned is about home ed and Steiner education producing better academic results. And then a more damning article from the Independent which seems to be their lead article today - Our children tested to destruction - which sadly does not ... More About: Articles
Friends of the Earth survey
2008-02-05 17:47:00 on meat and livestock products here - filling it in enters you in a prize draw to win £50 worth of books from their shop. More About: Friends , Earth , Survey
chips pads rice seeds writing dancing watching growing
2008-02-05 15:39:00 Just had a lunch meet with lovely people - been mulling over how lucky we are since starting HE… feel honoured to know and be getting to know so many great individuals Wonderful to talk freely about how we feel about certain things - kids, aspergers, education, schools, mustard, chips, pickled onions… all good ... More About: Dancing , Writing , Rice , Daniel , Watching
Googol Learning
2008-02-02 14:32:00 looks like a fab resource. Here’s their homeschooling and afterschooling section and they have some really good looking maths stuff too. Lots of great articles and links. More About: Learning
snow fun
2008-02-02 12:39:00 Pictures say it all really Have split post so you are not forced to download the 10, 000 if you do not wish to More About: Daniel , Snow , Charlotte
Culloden
2008-01-31 21:32:00 Home ed group trip to Culloden Moor today - site of the last battle fought on British soil. They have just opened their new state of the art visitor centre and it was great. There is an amazing room called the immersion theatre where there’s cinema-type screens on four walls and you’re in the middle of the ... More About: Daniel
seal
2008-01-30 12:17:00 Bit of a drama yesterday afternoon. We found a baby seal on the beach, lying on it’s side and twitching quite badly. Seemed to be in distress. A lot of human and canine footprints all around it in the sand (I was suspecting foul play). Phoned the sspca on the mobile and they told us ... More About: Daniel , Seal , Charlotte
club, films, books
2008-01-28 21:32:00 Kids started a new club at the weekend. Not naming it - doesn’t seem very internet sensible to do that. I was a bit concerned as I knew it would likely be all school children apart from them and had concerns about bullying/poor quality leading/teaching etc. Basically I hated the idea of walking into something as ... More About: Books , Films , Daniel , Club
Burn?s Night
2008-01-25 21:00:00 O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e’er untie the filial band That knits me thy rugged strand! (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott) After dancing (easier routine today) and Italian we launched into ... More About: Night , Burn
calzone
2008-01-24 18:18:00 Got up early this morning and made bread dough - it rose as everyone else got up and some housework got done. Then we made it into calzones and focaccia. Left them to rise as we did our dancing - really hard workout today, the female teacher does not break the steps down as well as ...
all that jazz
2008-01-22 18:04:00 Doing a dance workout each morning just now - Dirty Dancing is the current one (I am SO good at it, it’s so sad you can’t see ). Charlotte really got into the swing of things on day 2 Still working hard at the Italian - all going very well, listening to opera, ... More About: Jazz
weekend pics
2008-01-20 21:15:00 Daniel’s birthday Yesterday we did some art in a graveyard: and this was the dining room table, sometimes like to record it when it gives a nice overview of what weve been up to More About: Weekend
embalming, lunch and book giveaway!!
2008-01-18 16:11:00 Had a fascinating afternoon yesterday learning all about embalming. This is one of Moonrabbit Lucy’s many areas of expertise, one of her 4 current jobs, and I’d asked her to give us a talk on it It was an excellent lesson - we studied veins, arteries, bones, tissues, diseases, tools of the trade, the history of embalming, chemicals ... More About: Lunch , Book
Cinque (beautifully sung)
2008-01-16 15:53:00 Been quite busy doing various bits this week. Started our Italian course - slightly disappointed to discover the dialogues are following the exact same story as the French, but the language content is good. Along with this were reading Miss Garnet’s Angel which is set in Venice and has a good smattering of Italian vocab, ...
fab photography
2008-01-13 13:07:00 You know you’re a home educator when you find yourself standing in a dark room with lots of children who keep grabbing you and saying “who’s that?” and “did you just poke me in the back?” It was a really lovely day of photographic activities organised by parents in the HE group - Dad was ... More About: Photography
been a while since I used the password
2008-01-11 22:30:00 Other peoples kids in these pics so they’re private on flickr too. It’s the usual password as used in the past but feel free to request it here if you’ve forgotton it or are new to blog. I will have to know you in some way - either in person, from your blog/site or a ... More About: Password
Protected: home ed group new years party - usual (old) password
2008-01-11 22:24:00 There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. More About: Party , Home , Daniel , Password , Charlotte
chestnuts, books and glitter
2008-01-08 20:17:00 Roasted some of these in the dying embers of the fire last night - delish. Mad shopping trip into town today. All those gifted vouchers well spent by kids. They are now deeply embroiled in the new Graphic novel of Artemis Fowl and Thatcher and Sons - don’t think I need say who bought which there ... More About: Books , Glitter
time flies when you?re having fun and other cliches
2008-01-06 11:07:00 De-Christmassed yesterday. Felt a bit sad doing this - house suited all the trees and sparkle. It has always been a relief to get rid of it all in the past, partly because we had a much smaller house and needed the space but I think it’s more than that. This year we all really ... More About: Time , Flies
snow
2008-01-04 21:07:00 but it didn’t lie nice honest snow will get round to proper blogging soon… probably… More About: Snow
Happy 2008
2008-01-01 10:07:00 Last year I knew was going to be a year of exciting new things… 2008 I feel is going to bring some changes and building on what weve done already Hope it’s a good one for you all More About: Happy
home ed and aspie article
2007-12-29 10:11:00 Nice article about a boy cartoonist. He is home educated, has aspergers and skeletal dysplasia and his parents also suspect dyslexia. His site of daily cartoons is here - fabulous! More About: Article , Home
an alternate view of Christmas
More articles from this author:2007-12-29 00:07:00 Ben’s photos (which means I cameo in them!): as ever, the photos are clearer on flickr - blog distorts a bit sometimes to fit… More About: Christmas , View , Alterna 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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