by Rebecca | Jan 29, 2021 | Life and Family, School
We’re going to be doing this until at least 8 March –and does anyone actually believe they’ll be back at school for three weeks before the Easter holidays? – so we’re accepting that things are the way they are, and the sort-of routine that has emerged around a day of...
by Rebecca | Jan 22, 2021 | Re: Writing
Blog posts are funny things – the ones you think are going to do well can occasionally flop, and the ones you least expect can take you by surprise. My biggest surprise of 2020 was a post I wrote on that cheeky little winter chap, Jack Frost. It didn’t take off...
by Rebecca | Jan 15, 2021 | Life and Family, School
Well, I started out full of hope on this return to homeschooling – see my optimistic outlook in the last blog post – and now we are two weeks in, I can report mixed results. I’ve managed to stick to lots of the stuff in there about balancing work and school, but the...
by Rebecca | Jan 8, 2021 | Life and Family
The new year brings a sense of déjà vu, with the boys learning at home as they did from March last year. It’s tough, and for those of us with younger children, we are far from having “more time” in lockdown: we’ve actually got far less. It took me a while last time to...
by Rebecca | Dec 18, 2020 | Christmas
The must-watches, the viewing that gives you the festive feeling – everyone’s got a favourite Christmas film they look forward to above all others. I’ve asked the family what their favourites are and why, and we have quite a spread of genres and tastes! Here are their...
