My Glasgow Granny would often say 'Stop yer bletherin,' if we were babbling on about something, but I'm using the word here in the more positive sense of 'a lengthy chat between friends.' 🙂 This is a look back at the month that's been that will include books (of course!) but also other topics of … Continue reading January Blether
Shakespeare
It’s Friday #5
We're on to the final book in James Herriot's memoirs, Every Living Thing. I started reading his series of books...I don't know when, but it was years ago, and this is the final one. Today we read about a cat which sounded a bit like our boy: '...he was always there, seated upright and majestic … Continue reading It’s Friday #5
It’s Friday #2
Our visiting wallaby enjoying the new growth after all the rain we've had: Henry VIII was the last play that Shakespeare wrote and in it he describes the events that led up to the birth of King Henry’s daughter by Anne Boleyn. This week we read Act 5, Scene 2, where the King warns the … Continue reading It’s Friday #2
Ambleside Online Year 11
This is our Year 11 Australian/personalised adaption of Ambleside Online. We've just finished for the year and this is my final update...unless I've forgotten something. Bible/Devotions *Â **Â *Â *** In The Steps of the Master by H.V. Morton - Bible History & Geography *Â Knowing God by J.I. Packer - continued from last year ** The … Continue reading Ambleside Online Year 11
Keeping Notebooks & a Bookish Update
I started a monthly or thereabouts Charlotte Mason newsletter about 18 months ago. Since moving to WordPress the link to request the newsletter doesn't work. I've had a few queries about Notebooks recently but it's a topic that comes up quite often so I've started writing about Notebooks in a Charlotte Mason education and sending … Continue reading Keeping Notebooks & a Bookish Update
Home Schooling in Lockdown
Just about everyone where we are is homeschooling these days, but not out of choice. I prefer to say that we are home educating because our situation looks nothing like school. We have been teaching our children for 28 years and it is a normal part of life that we don't think twice about, but … Continue reading Home Schooling in Lockdown
A Combination of Mystery & History: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1951)
The Daughter of Time is an unusual type of crime mystery in that a piece of English history is resurrected and brought into the 20th Century to be investigated. It concerns the reign of Richard III and the murder of the Princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey’s Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard conducts his … Continue reading A Combination of Mystery & History: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1951)
Ambleside Online Year 6: looking back on the week
We finished Shakespeare's King Lear yesterday. Moozle wrote this narration on the play today in 'the style of Plutarch.' I've mentioned in previous posts that we were watching a movie version of King Lear on YouTube. We've got as far as the end of the eighth video but I'll probably skip at least … Continue reading Ambleside Online Year 6: looking back on the week
Weekly Review & Caffeine Withdrawals
This is my second week of no caffeine. I don't drink a great deal of coffee, although my consumption has increased in the past year or two, but my tea intake is embarrassing. My dentist asked me how much tea I drank per day and I couldn't tell him because one cup just flows into … Continue reading Weekly Review & Caffeine Withdrawals
Confessions of a Shakespeare Illiterate
 When I was 13 years old, I heard a girl in the year above me at school reciting what I thought was a poem. It appealed to me so much that I remembered some fragments over all the intervening years up until a few years ago when we read them in Shakespeare's play, The … Continue reading Confessions of a Shakespeare Illiterate
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