September is here again and children all over the country are returning to school but yet again, we’re not. However, our eldest daughter is starting college! Where does the time go? One moment the children are all seven and under and the…
Poisonous or Edible?
A perfect Autumn day spent on a Fungi Foray with an expert in mushroom hunting and her two truffle finding dogs. We weren’t looking for truffles on this particular occasion but the doggies liked to try anyway! Maybe another trip…
August 2015 Home Ed
August 2015 has got to be one of the weirdest times for me personally since our home educating lifestyle began. It’s in the past now and I am only just able to find a time slot to play catch up on…
Interest Led Adventures
I’d really been looking forward to getting away for some family adventuring. We’d waited for the right slot in work schedules and other diary commitments and the week just passed was it. Although we waited, it still feels good to…
5 Years of Freedom
I am delighted to be part of 4 Pesky Hobbits 5th Birthday blog share. I’ve followed their blog for several years now and have had the pleasure of meeting them all in real life, despite living at totally different ends of…
Home Ed Round Up 2014
With Christmas now in the past and the tree taken down I’ve decided to finalise our home ed round up of 2014. We decided at the beginning of the year to stay focused on the things that we really wanted to…
Winter Solstice 2014
W has been poorly since the last post. It’s kept us home and we’ve missed Yoga and Gymnastics. However, it did coincide with needing to be home for deliveries of both the Christmas present variety and business orders. There has…
Colours of Winter
These are the days I love the most. Six of us out together on an adventure, mini or otherwise taking in the fresh air and absorbing nature all around. The conversations that take place whilst we stroll, run, jump along.…
New Forest Wildlife Park
We have a list, a home educating lifestyle places to visit list. We ticked another place of our list with a gallivant to the New Forest Wildlife Park with a focus on seeing the Wolves. We weren’t disappointed. It’s a great…
Our Decision To Home Educate
It’s surprising just how many parents do not realise that home education is a very legal and viable option. Like many we weren’t aware of any other option but to send our children to school when they became of school…