Don’t You Judge Me! or Eternal Principles Betrayed

As I am going to France at the weekend and won’t be back this side of Hogmanay, I thought I’d review my self imposed “goals of steel“. 1. Make sourdough bread, the Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall way (Taking recipe to France) 2. Get through all 7 of my Michel Thomas “Even Grade A Morons Can Learn to Speak French” […]

No One Has To Cry For This To Happen

Only one room in our house (the tiny toilet) has less than fifty books on the shelves, several rooms have hundreds. When I thought about teaching the children to read I didn’t have a set method in mind but I did have two convictions: 1. It must not be an ordeal. For either of us. […]

Pilgrim’s Patchy Progress

Making a list is so easy, I made one weeks ago. Have I been implementing it or have I blissfully forgotten all about it? Neither! 2. Get through all 7 of my Michel Thomas “Even Grade A Morons Can Learn to Speak French” cds. Done 1-4. Before I made the list. ( Oh, the agony of […]

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I love list making. Getting the feeling of optimism and control without any actual effort is intoxicating. So I had to join this (courtesy of the sweetly titled Hello Friend) 1. Make sourdough bread, the Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall way. 2. Get through all 7 of my Michel Thomas “Even Grade A Morons Can Learn to Speak […]