Silver and Gold
We have found the people of north east to be very warm and welcoming. We enjoy our walks each week to visit the Crusty Bun. Lynn and Kate have become […]
Category Archives: Beth’s Posts
Remember Remember the 5th of November
What does the 5th of November have in common with July the 4th? Loads of fireworks that’s what! Today is the 5th of November. This is the night celebrated by […]
15th Century Catapult Complete
As promised here are the pictures of the completed 15 century catapult. The kids had fun putting it together and even more fun launching various lego guys from it. This […]
Good Sunday Morning!
I hope all of our stateside friends enjoyed your extra hour of sleep last night. Our clocks in England fell back last Sunday. It is now mostly dark by 4:30 […]
Field Trip Friday #7
It was another beautiful day in County Durham today. There was a fall crispness in the air as Mr. Ray came round and picked us up. He sweetly offered to […]
October Ending
Today is the last day of October. It is hard to believe that we have been here in England for almost 2 months. We try to fill our days with […]
Christmas Preparations
Friday’s Field Trip was postponed due to Joshua catching an English stomach bug. We have spent a few days letting him rest and get well. Meg has been storing up […]
Push Chair Shopping
In Alabama I always did the grocery shopping every two weeks. I have found that running to the store more than that causes our budget great harm. The only […]
Christmas Comes Early
The kids and I took our usual Monday walk to the Crusty Bun and the library. Kate and Lynn gave us our new Geordie word, “Skivin’” It means to […]
Friends, Asian Food and Madagascar
We’ve just returned home from a wonderful morning worshiping the Lord with our new friends at church. We are pleased that we won’t have to be cooking any lunch because […]
Field Trip Friday #6 The Silver Swan
Today the kids and I had an invitation from our friend Mr. Ray to go over to the Bowes Museum in the lovely town of Barnard Castle.. This beautiful french […]
Lego Build
Today the kids and I are working for the afternoon at the lego Cathedral table. The lego cathedral build is a part of fund raising for the Durham Cathedral Open […]
Monday Night Monk Games
Tonight Meg and I had the chance to attend the Cathedral Volunteers night at the Durham Cathedral. Since our family volunteers weekly with the Lego table we are part of […]
York (Part 2)
Looking back over our pictures from yesterday’s excursion I realised that Meg looks like she is freezing. It was a misty, windy day. Not terribly cold. It was in the […]
The Grand ol’ Duke of York
“The Grand ol’ Duke of York, he had ten thousand men, he marched them up the hill and then he marched them down again. and when you’re up you’re up […]
Field Trip Friday #5
Well today was one of those “change of plan” kind of days. I had planned for the three of us to go to a priory ruin and explore a bit. […]
Write like a Benedictine (Monk that is)
You have to sing that title along with the tune “Walk like an Egyptian”, then it becomes a bit more funny or corny perhaps. Last week after we saw the […]
Field Trip Friday #4 My Father’s World
This was the first field trip for the kids and I alone as Rob’s studies have now begun. The kids and I have been tackling a bit of scientific classification […]
One amazing book
Last night the we had an opportunity to view the Lindisfarne Gospels on their last night on display in Durham. What a marvelous book with an amazing story! The kids […]
Field Trip Friday #3
Field Trip Fridays have been an exciting time to explore the city that we call home during this year in England. Last week we completed a tour of both Durham […]
Have you any further queries?
One of my very favorite, or I should say favourite, things about living in a new country is learning new ways of saying things. A bit of a language within […]
By Shank’s Pony
It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood here in Durham, England. After home school the four of us set out on a walk. On Mondays we take a walk […]
Home school and finally a routine
It is the start of our fifth week of homeschooling and we have held class in three houses across two states and in two different countries. Whew! We are very […]
To the Sea
Today is the first day of autumn and you wouldn’t know it by the piles of warm sunshine and blue skies. The whole weekend has been “quite lovely” so we […]
Lessons Learned The Hard Way
Yesterday was a wonderful, silly kind of (I can’t believe I just did that) kind of day. We had a productive morning in home school and tackled some new subjects […]
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