So I don’t know about you but week 5 was a tough one here. This feels like a new kind of normal and some of the residents are less than happy about some aspects of quarantine life. We’re missing our people. Our places, our things. We’re missing the old routine where different things happened on […]
Technically I guess I’m qualified to teach my children from home? I’m not really teaching though, I’m doing what everyone else is doing, I’m trying my best to keep this ship afloat. Trying to encourage them to read, to complete the tasks the teachers who know them so well have asked them to complete. To […]
You might have see the art challenge set by the Getty Museum where people have been recreating famous and not so famous art works with household items. You can read more about it by clicking here. As school is back next week I was planning to challenge my class to see what they could come […]
The quarantine diaries continue here as I’m sure they do for you. I’m not worried about running low on toilet paper but I am genuinely worried about running short on sellotape. Grier has been quite prolific in her crating and invention output and the sticky tape stockpile is not looking too healthy. This is something […]
Today has been a day of many egg hunts. Inside, outside, upstairs, downstairs, we hid the eggs, they hid the eggs. There were a lot of eggs. And we cooked a leg of lamb which would have fed 3 more families but that’s what Sainsbury’s delivered so we went with it. And will be eating […]
Just a boy and his new pets. I ordered some caterpillars that we can watch grow over the next few weeks as they transform into butterflies. We last did this a few years ago – you can click here to see. I don’t think Baxter really remembers so this is very exciting for him. The […]
DIY quarantine hair cuts are another thing to add to the list of things I never thought we’d do, but there you go. Watched one YouTube video and it didn’t look too hard? Which is sort of my motto for life. A good example of when good enough is good enough. And a reminder that […]
Most evenings in this month of Sundays, one of the kids has chosen something for us all to do. Go in the garden, watch a movie, play a board game or complete a drawing challenge. Today was Baxter’s choice and he wanted to play hide and seek. Or shine and seek as he sometimes says. […]
The weather was lovely today, warm and bright. Two years ago in April there were terrible storms and they wiped out all the seedlings I’d taken months to care for. It was too late to sow any more seeds so I packed everything up. Last year I didn’t plant much telling myself that I didn’t […]
Is a question I ask nearly every week. What will the kids take from an experience and weave into their own narrative, what makes them them? What will the important lesson be from this meal, story, fight, storm, friendship, sibling battle? And if they all three experience the same thing how will they remember it […]
Caroline Cameron 