Month: April 2021
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Precious Moments
This is a photo montage of our week. Charlotte’s health took a big dip this week, and much of my energy has been focusing on supporting her. I’ve tried to prioritise family closeness, beauty and all things lovely. We are taking comfort in the rhythms and traditions which come rolling about with familiar regularity. Sunday […]
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Prolonging the Life of Cut Flowers
There is one thing I enjoy more than freshly cut roses, and that is freshly dried roses. To be honest, I love everything about roses, from their buds to their flowers to the rose hips they leave behind. Last week I spent a very happy afternoon drying some roses and their petals, decorating our home […]
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How to Make Bone Broth {Healthy Living}
I have been making bone broth for years. My method has changed during that time as I’ve tweaked it to suit our tastes and needs. In this post I will show you how to make bone broth using an organic, zero waste method. # Be flexible with the vegetables and bones you use Each week, […]
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Seasons of Joy: In the Garden
I need to pre-empt this post by warning that there are many many photos ahead, most of which look much like the one before. I am so excited by all I have achieved this week (marginally more than last week 😉) that I have captured each and every minor accomplishment in picture form. I took […]
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Precious Moments
I managed to get lots of lovely photos this week! It has been glorious weather and we are all enjoying being outdoors more, especially me – I am LOVING my new hobby! On Saturday, Thomas decided to wash both his car and ours. He had a very willing helper, who you may or may not […]
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Update on Charlotte
I haven’t shared much about the last three weeks because, to be honest, I was so deeply affected by it that I didn’t know what to do or who to turn to. Three weeks ago Charlotte began some very odd seizure-like behaviour where her whole body would twist and contort to the left side and […]
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How to Make Princess Mary’s Christmas Tin
In this post, I will describe how we made a replica of Princess Mary’s Christmas Tin. Mary, 17 at the time, wanted to show the soldiers her appreciation and gratitude for them fighting on the frontline. At first, her goal was to pay for them herself. But she soon realised that was not going to […]
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Seasons of Joy
What a glorious week it has been weather wise. I was up at dawn on Monday and was fully dressed before I looked out of the window to see this: What an unusual gift from God midway through April! I had checked the weather on the BBC website the night before and absolutely no mention […]
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Precious Moments
I took hardly any photos of school this week, even though we got lots done. We were due to have this week off as part of the girls’ Easter holidays. But, to be honest, we are all much happier when we are living our normal routine. Before I get into the educational side of things, […]
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Life in the Trenches {World War I}
Life in the trenches was like nothing the soldiers had ever experienced before. ‘Digging in’ as it was called was a fairly new phenomenon. But living in the mud and squalor surrounded by giant cat-sized mice become wearisome very quickly. The young men had signed up to fight for their country and believed that excitement […]