By Other Means...By Other Means...home educating, vegan family in Scotland Articles
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
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
is it a strange day for everyone today? good and bad?
2007-12-27 22:30:00 Had a really good day today of mad running around with friends. We were way too early so ended up driving past the old waldorf school and walking in the woods there. Felt totally at peace with it. Just a step on the way after all. Also there was none of the awful two faced-ness ... More About: Today , Daniel , Strange , Good
dark tree pics?
2007-12-26 17:56:00 A day of walking today. Toby and I did one of our “ooh, the moon, let’s run up to the loch in our pjs” walks early this morning Then watched a red sunrise: We all went on a mega walk later on. Apart from that, just lazing around really, chatting to friends on phone, eating ... More About: Dark , Tree
Happy Crimbo in (lots of) pics with mouseover :)
2007-12-25 19:24:00 Totally neglected to photograph the eight different ice creams (Booja Booja’s ’stuff in a tub’ is very good indeed) Rachel and Ben brought and the six bottles of wine from my Mum and Dad but they are/were gorgeous too More About: Happy , Charlotte
tis the season
2007-12-24 09:18:00 Brain has been replaced with: off for a big day of cooking; everyone coming for dinner tomorrow Couldn’t leave you with a schooly moan at the top - not very festive at all… so here’s a garland of chocolate trees (inspired by Pig in the Kitchen’s wonderful faraway tree post :) You should go see, her ... More About: Season
petition, fun and games
2007-12-22 10:42:00 Petition here: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to commission an urgent independent review of the compulsory Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) policy framework, and to reduce the status of its learning and development requirements to ?professional guidelines?. We recognise the government?s good intentions in its early-years policy-making, but are concerned about the EYFS legislation, which ... More About: Games , Fun and Games , Petition , Charlotte
house of sweets
2007-12-20 20:29:00 Lovely Christmassy home ed group day out today at Duff House . Lots of kids for mad running about in play area and good look round house. Really loved the textiles exhibit - some amazing pieces. Kids all did the quiz. Charlotte put cheeky teenage answers to some of the questions, pointing out errors and claiming ... More About: Daniel , Sweets
ice, ice baby
2007-12-18 17:48:00 Lots of it around : We came home and read up on the molecular process involved in freezing here and the effect of salt on it. This also involved me drawing diagrams and performing a skit where I was a slow moving molecule and then a faster one. My dyslexic child benefits greatly from this kind of tactile element ... More About: Baby
birthday, blogland friends and ice
2007-12-16 16:16:00 Charlotte is now 13 She had a good birthday - started very early indeed watching her gift from Daniel - The Simpsons Movie. Later on we went to the cinema to see The Golden Compass - all thoroughly enjoyed that. I had read the book some time ago and thought it captured the atmosphere ... More About: Friends , Birthday
a solemn phantom, draped and hooded?
2007-12-13 20:59:00 Both Dan and I chose him for our Dickens watercolours: Charlotte chose the little boy in the street near the end: Really enjoying the beautiful writing in the book - were all so familiar with the dialogue but not how well worded it all is. Speaking of well worded, were working through the ‘Improve Your Word Power’ ... More About: Phantom , Sole
tra la la la la, la la la la (deck the halls - sing it)
2007-12-12 16:56:00 Everything feeling all Christmassy but relaxed here. I get sleepier as we approach the solstice every year and perk up again in January. Been having some deep thoughts (stop groaning at the back!). Can’t really describe it clearly but it’s about love really. How some of us are being drawn to live our lives in ... More About: Sing , Deck , Deck The Halls
let there be light
2007-12-08 20:48:00 lots of lights Davie had fun with some that the previous owners left us: Looks very nice out there in the dark :) Then in a strange and wonderful ‘great minds and all that’ moment, we received our gifts from the gorgeous Cat. Davie and me have not worn ours yet so they’ll appear in time ... More About: Light
cocoa and art
2007-12-07 17:39:00 things just floating festively along here… Had a nice time at a Christmas concert in Duff House today. Extremely well behaved school children sang some unusual carols - they were from a school that I attended for 2 weeks when I was 4. Only school I wasn’t really unhappy at that. I do suspect they might ... More About: Cocoa
totally bedecked
2007-12-05 17:31:00 Bright sunny day - really mild too. Been having some moments of great joy, remembering where weve come from and marvelling at where we are now - in many ways. Sitting here I look out on dark silhouettes of high pine trees over by the loch - they are backed by a silvery blue sky ... More About: Daniel , Charlotte
I got a letter too?
2007-12-04 18:14:00 …very touched by the sweet note of apology I received yesterday - despite knowing the new address, they sent it to the old one. At least they are consistent in their incompetence I really hope you have a deep and lasting interest in salt dough (1 cup plain flour, half a cup salt, half ... More About: Letter
pretty cold
2007-12-02 16:32:00 it’s sub-zero out there, and very beautiful Just been out with extra bird food. Kids have baked pies, a mixture of mincemeat, jam and chocolate/peanut butter ones. this is pretty and seasonal just now: Evan Almighty was very good indeed. We had a look through the bible to see the Gopher wood for ourselves and discussed ... More About: Cold , Pretty
advent, trees and age
2007-12-01 18:39:00 a veritable forest in the house, well a wood… a copse - okay 3 fake trees but it’s very exciting. For me anyway, teeny children don’t seem so wildy enthused… strange age. They’re obviously past doing certain things and more into their own stuff. I am going to force some Christmas crafts on them though ... More About: Daniel , Trees , Charlotte , Advent
little bits
2007-11-30 13:04:00 the World’s food for a week - good talking point though I wish there was more info on the countries - teenager in the last one looks really pleased to be involved Two things that have made me laugh in the last few days: wake up cat - Willow every morning that Cute little animation. and then ... More About: Bits
the list and a film
More articles from this author:2007-11-29 17:29:00 Received our first Christmas card today in the post. Decided to get out my cards and address book containing the gradually expanding list - not as bad as the 25 million CB apology letter list but it’s big and scary, nontheless. Interesting looking through it - address book is years old, much scribbled in (I ... More About: Film , List , The List 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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