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I Somehow Survived Two Level 2 Open University Modules (And Lived to Tell the Tale)
If you’d asked me this time last year how I thought second year at the Open University was going to go, I’d probably have laughed nervously while surrounded by approximately seventeen notebooks, enough energy drink to knock someone out in a sugar rush and a laptop with forty-seven tabs open (it is usually much more…
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Our Experience at the Pokémon Café, Tokyo
There are some travel moments that quietly slot into your memory and stay there forever. And then there are moments that sparkle. Our late-night visit to the Pokémon Café in Tokyo was very much the second kind. If you’ve ever tried to book the Pokémon Café in Tokyo, you’ll know it’s not for the faint-hearted.…
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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…
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
Scottish Roots, Wandering Boots 