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Tag: Learning journey
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Chickens
Chicken Science Who said that chickens can’t teach?! One thing I have missed since having child No. 4 is our smallholding. The satisfaction of growing almost all of our food is seriously lacking these last few years due to many unforeseen factors. Environmental Science Every element of keeping animals becomes not just an opportunity; but… Read more
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Hound Tor and Medieval Settlement
Hound Tor and Medieval Settlement Hound Tor We rounded off our trip to Dartmoor by heading out to Hound Tor as I’d seen it listed on the map as a Medieval Settlement; which of course piqued my interest – although I’ll get to that shortly! The first thing we noticed as we drove up to… Read more
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Lydford Gorge Waterfall and more…
Dartmoor…. We started out the second leg of our trip at Lydford Gorge thanks to a blurry, almost irretrievable memory of my father taking me there when I was very young. In my mind it was miles and miles of gruelling hiking, and then the most magical waterfall I’d ever seen. I don’t think any… Read more
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Breaktime from van adventures
“Breaktime” Having woken up for the second time in Exmoor, next to a gorgeous river, the girls and I had a little al fresco breakfast paddle – with a friendly duck (who was having a well-earned nap) with its duckling frolicking about in the shallows – and then headed back to the pub to do… Read more
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A New Van Adventure
Well. To explain today I’m going to have to go back a step or two. To just over three weeks ago, when my work van died; and I made one of those split-second decisions that changes your life completely. Table of Contents Van Adventure begins Two days before, while we were driving through the stunning… Read more
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May Fairs past and present!
Actual May fair, A second very welcome extended break from school this week- in the form of another May bank holiday- which brought us just the opportunity we were wanting! May Fair at the Community Orchard Having scoured the local facebook pages for any sight or sound of a May Pole (what is wrong… Read more
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Malory towers, May fairs, Cake cost maths and the chance for a FREE download!
Malory Towers and May fairs. Now I’m incapable of watching TV without also doing something else; so I set myself to some work on the laptop while we powered through a good amount of Malory Towers this morning; making the most of sick day number 2. I was never into Enid Blyton as a kid,… Read more
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Bristol Aquarium and the biggest fish I’ve ever seen!
Packing lunches Now. I’m the worlds’ most frugal parent, having spent the majority of my life exceedingly skint. So when we decided to pay out on a trip up to Bristol Aquarium, it led to a morning packing ourselves a picnic. The three kids all piled into the kitchen packing a variety of things, chatting… Read more
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Stampede by the sea, ED TED and surprise unicorns!
Expect the unexpected Today I found myself face-to-face with a monster. Table of Contents Building a unicorn Being met, bleary eyed, first thing in the morning by this on your stairs…is quite something. Small picked this cardboard kit up in a charity shop yesterday and obviously decided to build the thing as soon as she… Read more
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Education by Accident!
Art, Board games and Rube Goldberg research – Heath Robinson Keeping it chill again today, we did some painting with the girls’ new watercolours, then headed over to a local board game cafe! The amount of education and development that can be discovered by accident while you’re just pootling about is amazing. Table of Contents… Read more