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. […]
Tour of Durham Cathedral
http://youtu.be/lU9lHk8q09A A student-led tour of Durham Cathedral. BONUS: Bloopers reel of the two tours follows!
A Tour of Durham Castle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7PQeggK6o Today’s post is a student-led tour of Durham Castle. Stay tuned for another student-led tour tomorrow.
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 […]
Joshua’s adventures in cooking
Recently, I have taken to cooking. I don’t know when, but all of a sudden I want to cook. So the other night, I made tacos for my […]
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 […]
College/University Matriculation
One learning point for me was (or is) the College and University relationship at Durham. It is a great addition to the university experience. If you are considering a school […]
Thinking, Reading, and Learning From One Another
Beth has done a great job in her earlier posts to describe what she and the kids have been up to recently. However, I have been quite busy these last […]
Our Ever-Increasing Vocabulary
Before we left for England, many of my friends from South Alabama told me that I would now have to learn to speak English. Well, part of learning any language […]
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 […]
By Night
We shared several pictures of the Cathedral in a recent post. Tonight we attended the viewing of the Lindisfarne Gospels. On the way out, we were struck by the sight […]
Meat Pies, Mushy Peas, and a Beetle Drive
Last night we were blessed by an opportunity to be with the wonderful people of Carrville Methodist Church. At Harvest Time each year, they celebrate as a church community by […]
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 […]
The Durham Story
Today is Field Trip Friday. One part of our mission: find a copy of the full version of the Durham Story. Many of these images are now becoming our New […]
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 […]
Sanctuary
Our Sanctuaries are our safe places, our places of respite, our places of protection. Sometimes those sanctuaries can be in our churches, sometimes they can be in our homes, sometimes […]
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 […]
Field Trip Friday
Yesterday’s Field Trip Friday included guided tours of Durham Castle and Cathedral. This is inside the courtyard of the Castle. This was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1072. It […]
The Great Lego Build–and Other Opportunities
While the girls were having their ballet and bus adventures (see yesterday’s post), Joshua and I had some adventures of our own. Our was not quite as circuitous as theirs, […]
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 […]
Front Door Whimsy
Sometimes we find here things we had only heard about. Sometimes they are things that we thought we long ago used and aren’t around any more. Then we got the […]
Christian Cliches
Last night I attended a lecture by Dr. Jeff Astley on Christian Cliches and Ordinary Theology at St. John’s College, Durham University. He explains his work better that […]
What Makes a Church?
Last weekend we had the opportunity to visit Europe’s largest shopping mall, Newcastle: a city of importance in the mission of the early Methodist movement, and to visit with some […]
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