Month: April 2018

The girls are in a bubble bath, playing with Lego, and the boys are also playing with Lego in Lanky Dude's bedroom. I had planned to sort out the children's summer clothes, but, at the end of the week, typing away seems far more appealing! I love it that the boys still sometimes do creative… Continue reading 12 May 2017

We've got bees! I had a very excited phone call from my beekeeping pal on Saturday, to say another beekeeper had caught a swarm, and we could have it! So, she brought it to the field, and this morning we donned our bee suits (felt good after a couple of years unworn) and transferred our… Continue reading 8 May 2017

I thought I'd write a little about our chickens. At the moment we have motley crew of six. Three little brown ones, and three more unusual ones. We've been keeping chickens about nine years I think, and we started off with three beautiful hens, a white, a black and a brown one. We found some… Continue reading 5 May 2017

The end of our first week of the summer term. This is the last term when Lanky Dude will be doing his academic learning at home, and I want to make the most of it....he's been home-schooled since he was 4, having spent reception year part time at school. It's been such a special time,… Continue reading 30 April 2017

  Well, we’ve had holidays this week hence the extra time I've had to write. Also, I'm still excited about the fact that I can now put photos on here! We've generally and a quiet time, which I've obviously needed, as I'm only just now losing that permanent-state-of -exhaustion feeling. We visited Hard Working Husband's… Continue reading 22 April 2017

Easter is now passed, but I've been reflecting on our faith based traditions of the season. What Jesus did on the cross, followed by his resurrection, is the most pivotal point of the Christian faith, so for us it's a real celebration. We have a Passover meal each year, remembering that same meal which Jesus… Continue reading 21 April 2017

One of my cleverer-than-me-at-tech friends has shown me how to put a gallery of photos onto this page! Hooray! Makes me want to go and take some more, just so I can try again! So, the bottom one is our little Easter Tree. The boys used to decorate it, but now it's Dancing Toes' job, and… Continue reading 19 April 2017

A week of dry weather! It's such a pleasure kicking through dry dirt, rather than sploshing through puddles in the back garden on my way to the chickens and having dry grass for the children to play on. The daffodils which have been out since January are all but over, and in their place, bluebells… Continue reading 12 April 2017

This is one of Rhythm Dude's experiments. It's blue, hydrated copper ll sulphate, which if heated, turns into white anhydrous copper ll sulphate. If you add water, it turns blue again. Fun and easy to do...though Lanky Dude managed to burn it when he did the experiment; so, we found out burnt copper ll sulphate… Continue reading 7 April 2017

Its only two weeks until Easter. While I love Christmas...all the fun and glitter...I think Easter is my favourite festival. As a Christian it's the most foundational to my faith; remembering that Jesus died on the cross and rose again, to pay the price for all the wrong stuff I do and enable me to… Continue reading 3 April 2017