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Good Manners Cost Nowt

(Conversation between me and my 12 yr old son) ME: …And when you’re emailing your teacher, don’t forget to say thanks.SON: Thanks for what?ME: For her replying to your email.SON: That’s her job.ME: Yes, but … it’s nice to say ‘thank you” to someone.SON: No other kids will.ME: Yes they will. Anyway, She said this […]

The Archers – a Problem

I might have mentioned before that due to many years of commuting in my car (and terrible homesickness for BBC Radio 4 during the years that I lived in the Kalahari), I’ve ended up as something of an Archers addict,over the last decade. These days, The Archers obsession even runs to the home-schooling. So, here’s […]

April Cruel?

The children called both Grandma and their dad and adopted Grandparents – same versions for both: “Mum’s gone mad at us for not behaving. She slammed the door on us in the shed where we’re studying really hard… and the lock’s broken. No… She’s not answering her phone – ’cause she left it in here, […]

Home-Schooling Goes Forth

Words from the Home-Schooling outhouse ; whilst studying WW1 History & the battles : “Arghh! This day is just like that Blackadder Goes Forth episode where Blackadder talks about the horrors of the war; ‘the mud, the noise of the guns and the endless poetry’…But here it’s ‘the freezing-cold, the noise of my mother yelling […]

Doom Home-Schooling

***Doom Analogies***Today’s home-schooling had to focus on ‘Medieval Doom Paintings and Their Purposes in Society.’ This is what my 12 yr old wrote, after studying them: “I think that Doom Paintings were created because the people couldn’t read or write and weren’t properly educated. I think they were used by the rich people to control […]

Mothering Sunday. 2020 ‘Locked Down’

I did anticipate that Mothering Sunday would be as ordinary as it is every year here – i.e. we’ve never really bothered with it. In fact, my 12 year old sudden realised what day it was and went; “Well aren’t you going to open your presents, Mum?” I said “Oooh – have I got presents?” […]