By Other Means...By Other Means...home educating, vegan family in Scotland Articles
boredom (mine), science, mud and puzzle
2007-06-22 11:51:00 So what can I remember from last few days? We had a lovely home ed meet for lunch at a local park and went round the farming museums. I’m afraid my levels of boredom endurance were stretched to the limit - I was close to running outside with the carbolic soap and jumping up and ... More About: Science , Puzzle , Mine , Boredom
puzzle anyone?
2007-06-20 16:26:00 Having a small sort today - going to be inflicting some stuff on other HE people in an unsolicited manner soon. Looked at the Egyptian jigsaw which is great but weve made it twice now so it’s up for grabs - 1000 pieces, all there. Very educational if you look at the pics carefully and ... More About: Puzzle
MoonRabbit?s Cotton Comforts
2007-06-19 15:15:00 now have a new site - go visit - there’s all different types I got these lovlies recently: More About: Cotton , Fort , Rabbi , Comfort
in the garden
2007-06-18 14:57:00 not quite on the scale and lavishness of Kildrummy, but we have some lovely things happening in our own one The snapdragon below is from last year. It kept flowering all through the winter house viewings bringing a little splash of colour to the old garden - and now it’s coming out again, feels ... More About: Garden , In The Garden , The G , Arden , Garde
weekend
2007-06-17 23:59:00 a very nice one. One day slobbing about reading and one cramming in just so much stuff Pics galore of that one - tired so it’s mainly photos and links. We started by visiting my mum and dad for fathers day then went over to Nicola’s, which is fast becoming home to all unwanted ... More About: Daniel , Weekend
jigsaw and aliens (quite disgusting)
2007-06-15 16:54:00 It’s finished and will be a good lesson in impermanence later when broken up and tidied away… We used our alien kit today… kids did quite sensible ones. Charlotte’s sung an anti-war song in it’s own language and Dan’s said ‘resistance is futile’ They even thought about their habitat and planets as suggested in ... More About: Aliens , Quit , Jigsaw , Disgust , Liens
what if? happier - lots of links too
2007-06-15 09:22:00 Re: yesterdays whine… feeling much better today. The kids are doing great both academically and socially… the house move feels like starting a new life and makes me look at the old one almost like it was a large mistake in many ways. But ‘what if’s’ are null and void if dealing with the past. Yes, the ... More About: Links , Pier , Happier
Dr Who game competition
2007-06-14 18:10:00 Daniel very excited about it - link - has links to lots of existing games too… More About: Competition , Game , Petit , Dr Who
oh dear - bit depressing today?
2007-06-14 09:07:00 Feeling on a bit of a downer to be honest. All totally silly really as there’s no point feeling down about things past that can’t be undone - we just have to move on from where we are. We went to a home ed craft group yesterday, which was lovely, some nice friendships forming there. But ... More About: Today , Depressing
nae bad - fit like yersel? (doric - local dialect)
2007-06-12 15:40:00 There was an incredible thunder storm here a couple of nights ago - so loud and right over us for at least two hours in the middle of the night. We were all up and about watching it except Daniel who slept through the whole thing… unbelievable…. you could feel the house shaking with the ... More About: Local , Like , Loca , Dialect
8 things
2007-06-10 10:15:00 tagged by Allie and Qalballah - thank you Here are the rules: The rules are simple?Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then ... More About: Things , Thing
natural history centre
2007-06-09 10:44:00 Quite a well kept secret this place - I knew about it because a friend’s son did a degree in the building. It’s a huge collection of all stuff zoological - some of it been there for hundreds of years. They now have an educational facility there so: home ed group trip here we come, or ... More About: History , Natural , Daniel , Hist , Centre
pretty pads :)
2007-06-07 20:28:00 My friends washable pads are now out in the world and available to all I can vouch for them being terrific - better than anything I’ve used before: light to regular or regular to heavy More About: Pretty
happy smoothie
2007-06-07 10:37:00 Everyone agrees that this is the best smoothie ever made for breakfast so thought I should record what I chucked in there (For four large smoothies): 1 large punnet of strawberries from the local fruit farm, 1 mango, 1 banana, quite a bit of pineapple juice and spring water - then these next are ... More About: Happy , Smooth
puzzling and lovely
2007-06-06 13:39:00 Up really early this morning and had a little go at the nostalgic puzzle which we set up a couple of days ago: It is a great puzzle - an Egyptian Chronicle, can’t walk by it without doing a bit. Ooh look I’ve found Moses feet/hieroglyphs/top of the pyramid of Cheops etc. Didn’t make me nostalge anymore really ... More About: Daniel , Lovely
where the wild things are
2007-06-04 15:03:00 no, not the book (good as it is). I just had to steal the title for this post. Partly because it’s such a good description of the woods here. No-one is ‘managing’ them in any way so they are totally wild and you feel a wonderful ancient, leafy, cooling, pine needle floory something in there, ... More About: Wild , Things , Thing , Where
lazy
2007-06-02 10:07:00 Yeah - I feel a bit… summery days do that to me. Yesterday we had French in the sun, lunch in the sun, maths in the… you get the picture We laid a rug down by the pond and sat there doing our stuff. Saw dragonflies mating. I wasn’t sure if they were ... More About: Lazy
sunny pi
2007-05-31 20:14:00 Yes the sun is out again, nostalgic thoughts fading in the light like shadows (love a good metaphor me). Why is the rain more memory inducing than the sun? Strange… Had a different school experience this morning. A whole load of people walked up the track, adults and teens - a school trip here? We see ... More About: Daniel , Sunny
nostalgia
2007-05-30 10:46:00 I love it and indulge in it often. Got it strong today… for strange reasons. Partly the rain - torrential and non-stop for two days now, which I really like. Got totally soaked on a wood/field/track bike run last night but there’s something natural and wild about it - Charlotte said to me “if we were in ... More About: Nostalgia
hmm? a little disturbing?
2007-05-29 20:06:00 The Movie Of Your Life Is A Cult Classic Quirky, offbeat, and even a little campy - your life appeals to a select few. But if someone’s obsessed with you, look out! Your fans are downright freaky. Your best movie matches: Office Space, Showgirls, The Big Lebowski If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be? More About: Litt , Bing
Potter and Pi
2007-05-29 17:06:00 Davie’s back to work today after his four days off, Charlotte’s writing and illustrating a book about fictional Royal families and Daniel is youtubing in various languages. Weve just been for a very wet walk in the woods. Our new words in French are quite easy this week (week 5!) as we know most of them from previous ... More About: Potter , Otter
other things
2007-05-27 17:34:00 It hasn’t just been the pool this weekend. I wore my glorious new shoes to the cinema Children were probably glad it was dark in there… Charlotte has developed a very keen interest in Royal history what with the dvds weve been watching and Monarchy last night: and weve had some great bike runs. The ... More About: Things , Thing
pool
2007-05-27 16:08:00 Yes it’s up. Weve been in. We may never be the same again. I ordered the wrong size of heater for it so it is so cold you would not believe. Large heater being invested in pronto… However Charlotte and I were braver and hardier than the men who decided just to take pictures of ... More About: Daniel , Pool
Thinking blogger award meme
2007-05-25 18:09:00 how lovely to come home to this after our day of swashing our buckles in the cinema and Davie buying me a bike - my first ever bike of my own However there may be more on that later… (it’s purple!!) Here are the official rules for participation in the meme: 1. If, and only if, you ... More About: Meme , Blogger , Award , Ward , Thinking
Peasants, peas and a Lion in the grass
2007-05-24 16:19:00 Charlotte got an audiobook from the library - Fire, Bed and Bone - which she insisted we all listen to as it was so good. It really was. It’s set during the peasants rebellion of 1381, seen through the eyes of a dog - bit of a tear jerker. Seems like were going both directions in ... More About: Lion , Ants , Grass , Peas , Sant
WAHMs! yoo hoo - your turn!
2007-05-23 10:15:00 Following on from the success of the lurkers post (and an inspiring post from Qalballah) now it is the turn of Work at Home Mums. If you have a business at home post it up in the comments and I’ll transfer the details to this post and then, eventually, into a section on the resources ... More About: Turn
much loveliness, a fairy themed post
2007-05-22 18:38:00 Fairy path that I love in the woods: and look did I catch a fairy on film? My friend is now onto her second generation of designs with some lovely fabrics (fairies again!): and a truly Scottish one: Seem to have moved without any of my summer clothes. Was I really that enthused about clearing out? Anyway I’ve bought ... More About: Post , Much , Ness , Line , Lines
Infernal English, Horrible History and funny French :)
2007-05-21 15:15:00 Gorgeous sunny day today. Started by going back and reading the introduction to Wuthering Heights (it had revealed too much plot to read beforehand). Then we had some discussion about the Brontes. I’m now reading The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte by Daphne Du Maurier. Fascinated to read about the games and stories the Bronte children played ... More About: Funny , History , French , English , Hist
another garden project and another blog giveaway :)
2007-05-19 11:45:00 All had a lovely evening in the garden yesterday preparing for our next little home improvement project which will hopefully be completed next weekend Thought this might be fun: I have two copies of Vegan with a Vengeance, both received for review. The British one is already splattered with food but the USA ... More About: Garden , Project , Blog , Daniel , Another
short film on bullying and how weird am I?
More articles from this author:2007-05-19 09:46:00 here (naturally this was first seen at Paula’s!). I love that song, Mad World - really sums up being a teen, or how it felt to me anyway… Had a strange experience with it lately. Was pegging out washing on the line pondering whether it wasn’t utterly indulgent to wallow in my own misery over past ... More About: Weird , Film , Bullying , Short , Short Film 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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