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Writing, business, family life, Milton Keynes - there's all sorts on here!
Homeschool is Ending, with Mixed Feelings All Round
I'm not sure I know how to feel about it all, to be honest - it's a complex business. I do know a few things – I know that come 8 March, I will have six hours a day to do everything that I’ve been squashing into two, and that I will be MUCH less exhausted as a result....
Dream Holidays with Kids – A Wishlist!
In our pre-kids years, we travelled whenever we could. I won’t pretend it was intrepid, back-packing, getting-under-the-cultural-skin of the country travel – it was much more about hotels, beaches and safaris, but we still covered a lot of ground. It was also...
Half Term Indoor Fun – Raid the Recycling
February half term is always my least favourite of the school breaks – it’s cold, dark, wet and miserable, and there’s very rarely anything good to do, even when we’re not in a lockdown. The difference this time is that we’ve limped here through weeks of demanding...
Captain Sir Tom Moore’s Legacy for a 70 Year Old
The country was saddened this week by the death of 2020’s most famous centenarian. Captain Sir Tom Moore's legacy is not just the millions he raised for charity, but also he gave hope and inspiration to millions as well. His death from the virus that brought him to...
A Day in the Life of Homeschool 2021
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...
My Unexpected Page 1 Google Results Blog Post – and Wikipedia too
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 at the...
Back to School for me – and don’t they do things differently?
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...
Lockdown 3 – My Survival Plan
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...
