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I've decided to do a monthly round up for everything we've read each month. Himself focuses on science articles and forums and news, so he's not getting a section - books only! Large boy Jack Stalwart 3 France: the Mystery of the Mona Lisa by Elizabeth Singer Hunt Well, come bedtime on 1st July large… Continue reading July 2020 Reading
This is just a round up of our 2019 summer holidays. We had loads of fun in the Loire and Dordogne in France. D minus 1Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7Day 8Day 9Day 10Day 11Day 12Day 13Day 14Day 15Day 16
It's still only a few weeks since small boy's birthday so we're working our way through his new games. We loved Bug Bingo and this weekend we decided to give Dobble a go. This was another Amazon wishlist purchase: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Asmodee-ASMDOBB01EN-Dobble-Card-Game/dp/B0031QBHMA Getting Started Inside the packaging (bah humbug, too much unnecessary plastic) there's a lovely compact… Continue reading Review: Dobble
I love growing veggies. I'll never forget the first year that I grew 5 courgette plants in a sun blessed garden and a friend gave me 8 tomato plants. Himself is only just coming back round to considering courgettes acceptable on his plate after 3 months of me sneaking them into almost every meal. The… Continue reading Veggie progress report 2020
Its been said thousands of times by, well, pretty much everyone. 2020 hasn't quite been what anyone could have expected at the start of the year. I'm not going to get absorbed by the ins and outs and the politics of how we've ended up in such an awful mess. The 17 weeks we spent… Continue reading 10 Things Home Learning has Taught Me
This is a little diary of our seventeenth week in social isolation (well, ish by this point), encumbered by home learning's last week, working from home, and himself in work from time to time. It seems a very long time since this all started now. With the end of term on Friday, this is going… Continue reading Staying home, staying safe – week 17
So today I nibbled on a morsel of normality. I went to the hairdressers. I feel totally frivolous and self-centred and vain. Its selfish and way unnecessary, just going somewhere with other people is a risk to me and them and everyone's families. I feel guilty and self-indulgent. I'm justifying it to myself as an… Continue reading A morsel of normality
Some lovely friends bought Bug Bingo for small boy for his fifth birthday. We'd first seen it in a National Trust gift shop and put it on his Amazon wishlist last autumn. Its a totally gorgeous game. Physically, its tough and well made, the cards have weight to them and the board is foldable -… Continue reading Review: Bug Bingo
This is a little diary of our sixteenth week in social isolation (well, ish by this point), encumbered by home learning, working from home, and himself in work from time to time. It seems a very long time since this all started now. Here are the highlights and lowlights. See what happened in week 15.… Continue reading Staying home, staying safe – week 16
As we approach the end of the summer term in England, its tempting to feel like this is the home stretch towards a brighter reality without the weight of home learning hanging around our necks. I'm bracing myself though, for that being totally unrealistic. School Holidays After the end of term comes school holidays. Not… Continue reading The Home Stretch?
Smelly Socks and Garden Peas 