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My almost alternative life: January 2011
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Monday, 24 January 2011. Had a good today. A very good day. After taking J to Sue’s we almost finished emptying the house ready to rent out as it is on the market already. Then went to OC's. We went to Gill's so I could play at dry-stone walling with Alix whilst K played with the girls. K disappeared and played happily all day, though I got a hug and "I'm hungry" when Alix and I went in to eat dinner.
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My almost alternative life: June 2011
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Sunday, 12 June 2011. As an ex-computer professional I should be good at working on computers. Unfortunately, I'm not. If I have a blank document in front of me my mind also goes blank. Luckily the word program on my phone doesn't have the same effect on me, so that is how I write my blog posts before emailing them to myself which I then open on the little laptop we have with us. It was nice to tell Dave t...
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My almost alternative life: A sense of community
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Thursday, 11 August 2011. A sense of community. As chance would have it three of our last five hosts have been Intentional Communities. An Intentional Community is a place where people have come together deliberately to join other people with some shared ideals, though they may be quite loosely held together. 14 August 2011 at 21:16. Having visited communities and tried living in a house with another famil...
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My almost alternative life: February 2011
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Thursday, 17 February 2011. I have had a few minutes being trapped on the computer looking at other peoples blogs. There are many reasons for home educating our children, most home educators don't have a single reason, though often it seems it may initially appear so. I found this blog smug home educating bastard. List It caught my wife's eye so I had to read it! The blog being kept up to date. Grandma use...
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My almost alternative life: July 2011
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Saturday, 16 July 2011. Over the last few weeks we have been putting together our ideas about making money from our future smallholding. Half way through our tour we are very definite that we do want a smallholding! Making a living from a smallholding seems incredibly difficult. Diversification is the key, and adding value to your harvest, be it vegetable, meat or wood. I probably need a very simple design...
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My almost alternative life: April 2011
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Sunday, 24 April 2011. Our travels are going very well so far. We are leaving our third hosts on Monday and again we have learnt an amazing amount about a wide variety of things. Each place we go to has so much to give and quite often we feel that we are not able to repay the gift of their knowledge, time and inspiration by the work that we are able to do. But the time talking to John was priceless. The fe...
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My almost alternative life: March 2011
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Monday, 28 March 2011. A van full of stuff. It has been a very busy weekend which Vikki has detailed on her blog http:/ www.abusymum.blogspot.com/. For my part we have nearly squeezed everything in the van. This afternoon I quickly calculated that we have 8 cubic metres of "stuff". Probably a bit less than that, but close! Tomorrow we squeeze a few more things in and then we set off :). V has thought of so...
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My almost alternative life: Making money
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Saturday, 16 July 2011. Over the last few weeks we have been putting together our ideas about making money from our future smallholding. Half way through our tour we are very definite that we do want a smallholding! Making a living from a smallholding seems incredibly difficult. Diversification is the key, and adding value to your harvest, be it vegetable, meat or wood. I probably need a very simple design...
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My almost alternative life: November 2010
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My almost alternative life. Trying to live happier, through home education and learning new skills. Friday, 26 November 2010. My excitement today has been overwhelming, clearly visible on my face all day. Now the adrenaline has gone, as has daily contact with so many people I have come to respect over the last two years and ten months. I am totally drained. Getting our house cleared and ready to be rented is first, and then getting the van storage area prepared for our tour of the UK next year. After thi...
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The Barts go Adventuring!: Downsides to RTW blogs
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The Barts go Adventuring! A blog that will document our plan to save for a grown up gap year in 2013 with kids in tow! Thursday, 10 May 2012. Downsides to RTW blogs. Yup, you read that right, there are downsides to Round The World travel blogs! They give you itchy feet! Actually, just writing it there gets me all excited about doing it, I love this country and I feel really priviledged to be able to consider travelling round it at length and learn more about it. Or maybe even this one. Been to Uists and ...
