By Other Means...By Other Means...home educating, vegan family in Scotland 
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not just me who loves Green and Blacks then?
2008-03-23 12:59:00 Off adventuring again this week, pictured situation allowing: patches of sunlight act as magnets for cats and dogs right, off to sort laundry and pack More About: Green , Blacks
Look Me in the Eye
2008-03-23 12:42:00 Just finished reading ‘Look Me in the Eye - my life with aspergers’ by John Elder Robison. It is a totally fascinating read on several levels. He has had an interesting life, developing amplifiers and special effects for Kiss and Pink Floyd in the past, moving on to the toy industry then eventually starting his own business ...
Happy Easter weekend/Spring Equinox
2008-03-21 15:43:00 Lynda came to stay amid snow flurries and endowed us with gifts, some of which got eaten/drunk before I thought to take a pic… but it’s a nice seasonal one anyway More About: Easter , Spring , Weekend , Happy
anniversary ramble and comparative memories - with music (well midi files,
2008-03-18 09:12:00 3 years ago today was our first day of home ed. I can’t actually remember much about what we did but I imagine it involved a lie in and a lot of sitting around feeling relieved! I find it interesting to look back at the childrens school time with more objectivity now. The highly emotive ... More About: Music , Anniversary , Daniel , Ramble , Memories
couple of foodie bits
2008-03-17 11:26:00 Fab cheap beanburgers recipe submitted by Jane (ages ago - so disorganised!) up on the frugal site here I got all arty with the breakfast smoothie, which was very good by the way. For four people - punnet of rasps, handful of cashews, 2 medjool dates, tablespoon of raw cacao nibs, 1 avocado, red ... More About: Couple , Bits
it?s getting better all the time?
2008-03-16 13:19:00 better.. oh, better… I used to get mad at my school the teachers that taught me weren’t cool (I have always heard ’were cruel’) You’re holding me down, turning me round Filling me up with your rules… Sgt. Pepper being one of our purchases in Glasgow, this is going round in my head Had a fun sleepover this weekend for which ... More About: Time , The Time
Lucy, Lucy, quite contrary?
2008-03-12 12:15:00 …lots of gardening been going on, between torrential rain showers. Weve planted up propragaters with various planned things: kale, brocolli (early sprouting), celery and tomatoes; toms I intend growing on in the front porch. I won’t detail them but I may have nightmares about the strange plants the kids chose and that are now growing in their ... More About: Lucy , Contrary
a life less blogged
2008-03-08 15:49:00 The blog is evolving - been happening naturally for a while actually. I wrote the first ever post after a fab day at the beach where I just sat and watched my children learn. Learn like they’d never learned in school, laughing and smiling, absorbing information and sunshine. Hey, this is just amazing thinks me - ... More About: Life , Charlotte
a very foodie post? a bit of reading and dancing too?
2008-03-05 13:23:00 two of these fruit and nut dark egg sandwiches have been demolished SO good… so curranty… (go search for it here) and a lot of raw things have been happening: mayo from Detox Your World and pate from Raw Living gorgeous smoothies: soups and flapjacks both from Raw Living again Have done a few raw stints and always gain ... More About: Dancing , Reading , Post
Mothers run amock in countryside (it?s our day!!)
2008-03-02 19:31:00 Had lovely time with friends today. Watched the frogs - they are getting very excited in the ponds now but still a bit camera shy Davie and the kids went out on the bikes: Then we went off to explore on Mormond Hill, quite an interesting hill. During the cold war it had Nato radar ... More About: Mothers
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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