I promised AJ a while back that I would teach her to spin. All the children have watched me at the wheel. They’ve all wanted to somehow join in, but I’ve only just reached the stage where I feel I can hand on this craft. It takes patience to […]
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Busy bees in the garden
I work from home. This calls for a balancing act during school holidays. When the children were younger, I’d book them in with our wonderful childminder for a few days. As they got older, they wanted to be home instead. Playing with their toys. They have always been good at […]
Read moreDye-ing to wear them
I think within an hour of finishing their tie-dye tshirts, I heard the first “Can I wear my tshirt?” “No, not yet.” This was repeated at regular intervals for the next 36 hours. I can hardly blame them. (looking through the heart shaped window in the new chicken ark) The […]
Read moreWe’re going on a dragon hunt
Today, we headed on to the Mendip Hills for a nature hunt. To a place that we have driven passed so many times, but never stopped. We were after dragonflies. Hoping to spot one of the rarer types that can be seen around this pond, outside Priddy. There was, of […]
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