by Rebecca | Feb 19, 2021 | Life and Family
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...
by Rebecca | Feb 12, 2021 | Life and Family
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...
by Rebecca | Feb 5, 2021 | Life and Family
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...
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 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...
