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Such is Life…
Posting might be a bit scarce this week – DH is (unexpectedly) in hospital with horrible gallstones. If you’ve suffered from them you will know how debilitating they are. He is set to…
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Of Hearth and Home…
I have accepted that this year I will not be preserving my own personal harvest 🙁 so I’m doing the next best thing ; buying in-season fruit and veg and processing it. There…
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Nature Study – The Honey Bee
Last week was our final week of lessons. DH has had a bit of leave before he goes down to Plymouth on Sunday and so this week we really wanted to spend a…
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The Creative Home
Last year I made some Autumn Bunting (bunting is a BIG British thing). I love autumn and always decorate my home for the season. So I figured that there must be more autumn…
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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…
Inspiration for the aspiring Proverbs 31 Woman
