by Rebecca | Jul 3, 2020 | Life and Family
A couple of weeks ago, I was flicking through some photos of last year’s school summer break – it was a lovely catalogue of brilliant days out and activities, mainly supplied for little or no cost by shops and businesses in the local area. We had £2-per-child sandpit...
by Rebecca | Jun 26, 2020 | Life and Family
Nearly six months since the quick fix was made to Big Ben, and the opening seconds of 2020 were chimed in. I think we can all agree that none of us could have pictured this physically dividing, yet unifying experience that the first six months of the year has brought....
by Rebecca | Jun 19, 2020 | Life and Family, School
I know it’s very British to talk about the weather, but we really have been so lucky to have had such a sunny lockdown. Which makes it all the more difficult when homeschool on a rainy day comes along. We have had two or three of these days in the last 13 weeks, and...
by Rebecca | Jun 12, 2020 | Life and Family
A trip to the local COVID-19 drive through was not part of our plans last weekend. But on Saturday, our little one woke up all wrong. He was listless, no appetite, and most surprising of all, no motivation for his first ever at-home Beaver Scout camp, due to take...
by Rebecca | Jun 7, 2020 | Life and Family
The changes we’ve had to make to our lives in lockdown have had some unexpected benefits – and I want to keep up a lot of these good habits as things begin to return to the way they were. Here are three things that I want to keep doing after lockdown. Number...
by Rebecca | May 29, 2020 | Life and Family, School
After last week’s struggle with the options before us – to return to school, or keep them at home until after the summer holidays (Schools Reopening – whatever we choose, we lose) – we weighed it all up and decided that the homeschool journey will...
