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A Snapshot of July
July has been amazing so far. We’ve had… a mini heatwave – and can I just say that I’m really glad it was ‘mini’! I do enjoy warm balmy days and sunshine, but…
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Want a Peek Into My Backyard?
Last week a friend I used to work with years ago in South Africa happened to be in my neck of the woods. Her husband had two days of business in Sheffield which…
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Homemaking Monday – Running a Small Business
How many other homemakers combine keeping home and family with a small business? On Saturday the house was rather quite. Our girls travelled down to Oxford to take part in the National Young…
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A Coat For…
….my Filofax. I know – how ridiculous! I have seen people ‘babying’ their planners in the planner community. Insisting on putting their Filofaxes into fabric covers and then into their handbags. “WHY???” I…
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Homeschool Bee Nature Study For Teens
I think that a part of why we lay off nature study in our homeschool for a while was that I was struggling with how to take what we have always done –…
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Summer Homeschooling Days
“A pinch and a punch for the first of the month”, that little rhyme surfaced in my thoughts this morning for some reason – it hasn’t since childhood – but today it did…
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A Trip To Devon
The promised heatwave has hit England bang on time :). Today is just glorious, 28 degrees C already, set to rise a little more AND it’s here for the week. I’m really not…
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Shaking Up our Homeschool
Today I closed my 2014/2015 homeschool planner for the last time. Every single page has been filled up with lesson plans, activities and notes on what we have covered over the past year. …
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Beautiful June
Hmmmm, this year I have not touched a thing in the garden – apart from the weeds and transplanting a few strawberry plants into pots, and what do you suppose is happening? Well,…
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The Creative Home :: Yarn Along
Joining Ginny for this weeks Yarn Along Off The Needles: My Hermione’s Everyday socks are finally finished! I’m really quite pleased that I finished the pair in good time and that second-sock syndrome…