A writer does need to have a tremendous curiosity about everything and everyone…but this must go along with an honest commitment to and involvement in human nature… Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet Hello friends How are you? Life has been fairly full over in our little corner of rural England and I’m needing to… Continue reading Tea time and travels – April and May 2025
Tag: Holidays
Further adventures and beautiful places – July 2024
“Anne’s beauty-loving eyes lingered on it all, taking everything greedily in. She had looked on so many unlovely places in her life, poor child, but this was as lovely as anything she had ever dreamed” Anne of Green Gables, Lucy M Montgomery Hello Friends, How is life treating you? As I chat with friends and… Continue reading Further adventures and beautiful places – July 2024
Calm waters and souls revived – June 2024
June has been a month of days out and holidays; spending time with family, visiting dear friends, feasting our eyes on beautiful scenery, breathing in our fill of sea, lakes and mountains and of course the anticipation and preparation for these times away. One of the great benefits of home education is that we can… Continue reading Calm waters and souls revived – June 2024
Advent 4 and Good Tidings for Christmas – December 2022
How are you all? Have you managed to steal some moments of peace over the past few weeks to be still, be re-filled and ponder on the wonder of Christmas? It’s a story we are so familiar with, it can be easy to brush over the absolute incredible nature of the incarnation; our Creator God,… Continue reading Advent 4 and Good Tidings for Christmas – December 2022
Pomp and Pageantry – September 2022
Hello friends! A new season is upon us and change is in the air on many fronts. Late summer is gently slipping into early autumn and there is a nip in the air as I let the chickens out each morning. Meanwhile there is change in our nation too as the death of our long… Continue reading Pomp and Pageantry – September 2022
Summer Sundae 1 – July 2022
Hello! It seems a while since I’ve tapped away here; one of my favourite places to write. Life is very full and I’m grateful for it. Having had restrictions on our movement over the last couple of years, along with some post viral weariness, I have a new appreciation for freedom and health which far… Continue reading Summer Sundae 1 – July 2022
Advent and Christmas – December 2021
Advent is nearly ended and the celebrations of Christmas are just around the corner. This month of December can be like a helter-skelter, landing us in a exhausted, yet hopefully happy heap on the eve of Christmas. Our ideal is that it’s filled with delicious smelling foods, much loved traditions, twinkly lights, and sparkly-eyed children.… Continue reading Advent and Christmas – December 2021
A Summer Whirl – August 2021
I’m sitting in one off my all time favourite places, The Bishops Palace in Wells, Somerset. I’ve bribed the girls with ice cream and am hoping for a few minutes of peace. Despite the trees being in full, mature green leaf, and the flower beds an abundant display of reds, golds and purples, it feels… Continue reading A Summer Whirl – August 2021
Lockdown half term tips – February 2021
Here in the UK we have reached the first half term holiday of the year; a week’s break in the middle of the spring term. Some home educators follow their own pattern of work/rest and some fly with the wind as it takes them, but we have always roughly followed school term dates (though with… Continue reading Lockdown half term tips – February 2021
Time Out – February 2020
We’ve had two storms in quick succession here in the UK and in the midst of the second one, we all headed down to Devon for a few days. The gale force winds and driving rain enforced the rest we all badly needed. We spent the first two days tucked away consuming copious cups of… Continue reading Time Out – February 2020
Mothering through the seasons 