I’ve been feeling extremely restless this past little while, yet tired, so ended up baking a batch of chocolate muffins for breakfast tomorrow morning – sooo healthy!LOL! Usually I bake everything from scratch, using as many organic ingredients as possible, but a few days back I was given the gift of a packet of muffin [...]
Filed under: HOMESTEADING, Homesteading Recipes, Vegan Stuff, Waldorf Homeschooling on December 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Boy have we had a week! We had floods on Sunday, with the rain running through our bedroom. This resulted in no loss of belongings just piles of washing! Towels by the dozen, and….well it rained on my huuuuge ironing pile. So I had to wash it all again. The universe’s hint…hey Sue, how about [...]
Filed under: Bio-Dynamic Gardening, HOMESTEADING, Homeschool on November 21st, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hi Everyone Well, yesterday’s telling of the story the Little Red Hen obviously was absorbed overnight, because when I went to clear another vege bed, harvesting the last brocoli, onions and beetroot and tying up tomatoes,that sort of thing (and weeding….), StJohn asked if he could help, and he did. He dug out brocoli plants, [...]
Filed under: Bio-Dynamic Gardening, HOMESTEADING, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hi Everyone We’ve been so swamped this past week. We’ve started a new Waldorf Curriculum, you can have a look at www.alittlegardenflower.com. It’s been truly amazing, the kids are loving it, and as importantly I love it and am able to teach it with an ease that makes life much happier for me. Juliette has [...]
Filed under: HOMESTEADING, Homeschool, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hi Everyone The past week has flown by with so many things happening it boggles the mind. I’ve been preparing for the kids lessons for this coming week. I should ideally plan the entire year out but I struggle with this aspect of my life, so I have to only do what I can. And [...]
Filed under: HOMESTEADING, Homeschool, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OOOooh! We’ve had great fun, schools been good, yes, but our passion at the moment is our land and those chickens! We’re finally making progress on our journey to self sufficiency. Not a huge amount you may think, but for me it seems miraculous. We’ve had this dream for so long, and to finally get [...]
Filed under: HOMESTEADING on April 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We brought our chickens home last Friday afternoon, after spending the morning converting a doghouse into a chicken coop. Things went well, and we got 3 eggs the next morning! Well they’ve been laying like the clappers ever since!We get either 2 or 3 eggs per day, which for me is brilliant! They are captivating, [...]
Filed under: HOMESTEADING on March 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Okay so not so typical. It started off bad, so yuck. I waddled downstairs grunting at all and sundry. Went to turn on the coffee machine, filled the one part with water, and then instead of putting the coffee into the filter cup thingy… I threw it into the water holder thingy. So the day [...]
Filed under: HOMESTEADING, Homeschool on March 20th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Totally weird! Tree huggers! Paranoid! These are the comments that we’ve heard mentioned about us as a family. There are also many positive things from people who think the same as us, … So I felt it might be best to let everyone know what we’re about.As a sort of background to us. As a [...]
Filed under: HOMESTEADING, Waldorf Homeschooling on March 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you’ve followed our posts you’ll know we have a passion for homesteading, striving for self sufficiency and the like. I want to put pages together for all the recipes for cleaning products etc, that we’ve found work amongst other things, but that’s for later. Our vegetables…..we live on a rocky outcrop, in a wooden [...]
Filed under: HOMESTEADING, Homeschool on March 17th, 2008 | No Comments »