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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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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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An Early Summers Day
Oh my! What a gorgeous day it is today. We’ve reached temperatures in the early 20’s (that’s Celsius) and England seems to be flourishing. After the girls lessons today I pulled on my…
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May’s End in England
As the spring slowly marches towards summer, I find great comfort in noting that all is as it should be in the natural world. May is always marked by a few things that…
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Nature Journal Pages
I am very pleased to report that I am doing SIGNIFICANTLY better at making journal entries in my nature journal this year. Last year I think I told you I made exactly one…
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Simply Spring
It’s a simply marvellous day here today! 20 degrees C and just beautiful. It’s a struggle to keep our minds on our lessons today. I think I’m going to take a picnic blanket…
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OHC and Window Star Tutorials
Hello everyone! It’s a lovely bright shiny day here after our snow storms of yesterday. Unfortunately, we did not make our art lesson as the passes over the Peaks are both still closed.…
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A Snow Walk Before Lessons
I’m sorry if this is boring 😉 but I guess my joy at getting the white stuff is because I grew up in Africa – where there is not much of it. What…
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Small Winter Joys and Looking Ahead into 2015
The view from our conservatory remains the same… Beautiful, white, crisp and cold. We have had two nights of hard frost following our Boxing Day snowfall and so as you can see there…
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OHC: The Sumac Shrub
For 3 years now I have wondered and wondered what shrub this could be. I’m not great at identification and always doubt whether I have made a correct identification or not. Most of…
Inspiration for the aspiring Proverbs 31 Woman