2008, a year in blog posts

Routine

Reaction

In distress

Unconscious mutterings

Santa woz 'ere

A pruning job, and firewood

This weekend..

Bramble-battling

And so this is solstice

Protected: Higgledy

How we do things

Christmas? Bah humbug

Weekends

Self-directed independence; successes, mistakes and the breaking of spirits

The latest tangled mess

Two weeks to Yule

Jelly fungus

Demented.. dementors..

You don't say..!

Alice Cooke

Protected: I need

Kung fu kid

“The earth is sleeping..”

Yet the people of Britain believe themselves to be free.

Beside the seaside…

Socialisation? It's difficult..

Protected: A bit of activity

Hero son

A significant challenge

Shifting stone

Protected: Isn’t it annoying

An exciting new project

Home-educating a free-range, mixed-age brood

The nights are drawing in..

Medlar fruit taste test

Computer kids, #3

Don’t read this if you’re eating

Protected: This baby

Studying and thinking

Complaint to BRE and Early Day Motion

It’s just occurred to me..

Protected: Kitchen-chillin’

Something for the credit crunch

Protected: Monday, in which I sewed..

Dear Kitty Ussher

Well, I didn’t chat to any dead people. Did you?

Protected: Celebrations and communications

Feeling down?

Needless to say..

Protected: The latest

Finding Scotland, and other learning

Deep bed 2

Protected: Did any of you..

Your response identifier is 876 (deadline: Friday 24th October, noon)

"We are people, not pit ponies" - my response to the Benefits Reform consultation (deadline: tomorrow)

One - nearly - shedded shed

Discussions of the dead (and other Hallowe’en related things)

It's not lack of *money* that's the problem..

Compulsory ID by the back door

Unconscious teaching

It's a beautiful tree

Samhain? Or Hallowe’en? Both? Or neither?

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"Mummy, have you seen a black cape...

Future Me

Do you ever wonder....

It's ok, folks...

Protected: Blogging along..

"Christmas is not enough,"

One potato, two potato...

Not much news, but a lot of pics

Protected: Where was I?

"So, Mum.. who's actually in charge of the country, then? The Queen, or the Prime Minister?"

Protected: Metamorphis

Why so serious?

My guidance trumps your guidance

Shed dead

Protected: “Mum, you don’t have to do everything at once.” “Don’t I? Why not?”

A natural hierarchy?

A highly technical plan (NOT!) and some more grass. And some books. Maybe.

Protected: So.. Heath Robinson popped round for breakfast..

Best credit crunch news so far:

"The financial system is closing down."

In a hole

Protected: Visitors

Goodbye Halifax, we loved you well

Protected: Look! It’s the amazing, adventurous….

"Everything's a learning opportunity" ....

Protected: Look! It’s the amazing, adventurous….

I mowed the new grass!

This man is saying what I've been saying for years

Protected: I actually took some pics with it yesterday

More more *more* things they say

Benignly playing schools

It’s a good job we’re enjoying the journey

Protected: Oh dear

And then there was light

Reasons to move to Scotland, part 3

Protected: Locking and swirling

Numbers, especially FIVE. And some music, which is the same thing when it comes down to it, isn't it?

Lessons learned, decisions made and lots still to decide

Protected: I should be digging

Changing times

Resemblance meme

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Computer kids #2

Protected: Probably doesn’t seem so exciting to anyone else,

Reasons to home educate, part 873462

Protected: Ever have those mornings..?

*More* at risk of not receiving suitable education?

The Public Defender

Work goes stale

In praise of the Sell-it Centre

Protected: Seeing more

We found some steps

What's really going on in South Ossetia?

Protected: Seeing it

This is what’s been holding things up

Protected: Another day passes

Electrickery

The government is planning to abolish Income Support

I sneaked out of bed

Protected: 2+2=4 (Nearly.)

My early morning brain

The grid in our heads

Protected: We went to the shops and we saw………

Teaching. Learning.

Protected: Tell me I’m not the only one..

Taking care of the soil

Protected: A mish-mash of bizarrely unrelated topics

Work in progress

Learning with sisters

Bird’s nest, and bath

Protected: From a drought to a flood

Into... the sheds

Protected: The trouble

Ali: boy to man

Solstice sorting

Someone’s been off-grid here before

Protected: Me. Rambling.

Rain stops play

Reply from my MP

Reading again

Discoveries, decisions and the climbing of a tree

Tree identification

Redefining our language

Protected: Pick your own title

My lone parent consultation response

Today’s work

Land clearing: day 5

Protected: Bit of a fright

A bit further in..

Land-clearing

Cosmic supply company pudding

Protected: Don’t you think..

Every single parent matters?

Signs of success

Dandelion coffee

The Green Parent: this month’s inspiration

Do I have to start giving them alcohol now?

Protected: A convoluted tale.

Happy birthday, sweet 16

Letter to my MP

Living and learning

A little corner of hippy paradise

Protected: Shameless

"If mothering is a luxury, it's children who pay the price."

What *do* we do?

Protected: Sweet dreams aren’t made of this

Sounds that take you back

Language - and Bo Den

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I wasn't going to blog this

Grand Designs Live

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Planting query

Protected: Anarchy

What's going on here then?

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Family pulls together in crisis

Real socialisation

This is England on a spooky Wednesday afternoon in 2008

Protected: Oops, I forgot the title. Um. What shall we call this? I dunno.

Does anyone recognise this?

Stronghold

Protected: Censorship and singledom

Crunchy... and sticky

Protected: Not sure about that

Circle stories

Protected: A game, a 25 yr-old jumper, and *her*. A lucky escape?

On blogging - public, private, pictorial..

Playing the game

Protected: We need a new one, right?

"We've got a problem at the moment with the economy. We've got to explain to people what's been happening."

Inspired again

Protected: Clock-watching

Protected: Eating out

More to 'not learn' about

Superhero meme

Protected: Cheers, Karen. No, really. Thanks Ken.

Still "not learning"....

Protected: Guess what

Protected: Quiet - LOL!

Political Compass

Protected: Yada yada…

Censored?

Protected: Here it is then…

"I want to plant seeds, but can we do it without learning?"

Protected: Chasing raindrops

Well, we did *some* planting...

Protected: Pictorial Wednesday

Just pictures of the Queen

Protected: Oops, I did it again

Blog 'til you drop (and ignoring the writing)

Where to start....?

Frivolity and a plea

Protected: Blogland is *busy* isn’t it??

"The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air..."

Update

Protected: Unhelpfully helpful

A nice surprise

Protected: “It’s an old pillow, Mum.”

FAO Mr Justice Coleridge: Our family isn't broken and we do not wish to live in a stable...