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Staying Organised as a Distance Learning Student
This post comes to you as I productively procrastinate whilst halfway through writing my A215 Creative Writing assignment due on the 12th and completely ignoring my A233 English Literature one due on the 22nd. A small brain break, so to speak. It got me thinking though that when I first started my degree journey last…
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Our Last Hogmanay: Preparing for a New Year as a Family On the Edge of Adventure
There’s a strange energy in the days between Christmas and New Year, especially when you’ve already taken the decorations down, and everyone else seems to still be living in a glitter-based limbo, where normalcy hasn’t quite resumed. Our tree was down and up in the loft on the 27th, with lights carefully wound around cardboard…
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Our Family Values and Philosophy for the Worldschooling Journey
Before Anything Actually Changed There’s a strange assumption that once you say the word worldschooling out loud, something immediately happens. Like a trapdoor opens beneath your feet and suddenly you’re halfway up a mountain in another country, your child is learning three languages by osmosis, and you’re holding a warm drink you definitely didn’t reheat…
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The Last Christmas at Home: All the Feelings I Didn’t Expect
I absolutely did not put “unexpected emotional ambush” on my Christmas bingo card this year. I was aiming for pleasant. Vaguely festive. Eat some food, watch some nonsense on Netflix, roll about like weebles after too many cheesy nibbles, doze off with paper crowns still on our heads, and eventually collapse into bed clutching an…
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Why We’re Home Educating & What’s Working Right Now
I’m going to say this upfront, so nobody feels lied to halfway through: this post does not contain an inspiring origin story, a five‑step guide, or a confident woman standing at the top of a hill proclaiming she has cracked parenting forever. This is not that; this is the slightly frazzled, real explanation of why…
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
Scottish Roots, Wandering Boots 