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Calling a New Place Home – Making the Move

April 15, 2014by The Haynes Family 4 Comments

We recently met a fellow US student who was considering moving here to Durham to complete his PhD.  He asked us the question, “How did you physically move your belongings?” […]

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Moving to Durham? Read on..., Musings

Oh what a Fabulous Field Trip Friday! #19

April 11, 2014by The Haynes Family 1 Comment

Mr. Ray picked us up this morning and we headed back to Beamish today.  Tickets to Beamish are valid for one year so we plan to go as much as […]

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Adventures in Home Education, Beth's Posts

The “Old” Newcastle – Newcastle Upon Tyne Field Trip Friday#18

April 4, 2014by The Haynes Family Leave a comment

Today we ventured out via bus to our neighbouring city, Newcastle.  A friend that volunteers with us at the Cathedral wanted to show us around Newcastle.  We had really wanted […]

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Adventures in Home Education, Beth's Posts

Monday Morning

March 31, 2014by The Haynes Family 2 Comments

It is a bit of a foggy, grey day.  Possibly more typical English weather than we have had most of the winter. This was my view out the window this […]

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Adventures in Home Education, Beth's Posts

The way we roll…

March 29, 2014by The Haynes Family 1 Comment

Just wanted to share a quick photo with you all. I came into our home school area one day a week or so ago and found that Meg had drawn […]

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Beth's Posts, Moving to Durham? Read on..., Musings, PhD at Durham

Edinburgh – Old and New

March 28, 2014by The Haynes Family 2 Comments

    One of the exciting things about living in the UK is the amazing rail system.  For much less than the cost of driving a car the same distance […]

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Beth's Posts, Moving to Durham? Read on..., Musings

Grey Towers of Durham

March 24, 2014by The Haynes Family Leave a comment

We have had a very busy and fun filled day.  More of my family is here from Alabama including my very adorable baby nephew.  Rob went to study but took […]

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Beth's Posts, Moving to Durham? Read on..., Musings

Field Trip Friday # 17

March 23, 2014by The Haynes Family 2 Comments

Friday was a cold but sunny lovely day.  Mr. Ray suggested that we drive up to a village called Blanchland.  The Abbey and surrounding village of Blanchland was founded by […]

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Adventures in Home Education, Beth's Posts

100 Days

March 21, 2014by The Haynes Family 2 Comments

100 Days!  What could you do with 100 Days? We are in unbelief how fast our time here is moving.  What should we do with our next 100 days?  We […]

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Adventures in Home Education, Beth's Posts, Musings

Weighing Costs

March 18, 2014by The Haynes Family 3 Comments

Moving to the UK was a huge undertaking for us.  Some of the unknowns were made so much simpler for us because other students from abroad had made this same […]

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Moving to Durham? Read on...

Not just in Ireland

March 17, 2014by The Haynes Family 2 Comments

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I don’t know how you plan to celebrate the day but the Haynes family will probably bake a few shamrock cookies for our dinner dessert tonight […]

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Beth's Posts, Musings

An incredibly Small World

March 16, 2014by The Haynes Family 6 Comments

We have this bit of a story from back when we first met Mr. Ray.   You can read about our first meeting here https://thehaynesblog.com/2013/09/24/by-shanks-pony/ Read the above post and then […]

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Field Trip Friday (err Thursday) #16

March 15, 2014by The Haynes Family Leave a comment

On Thursday we took the short 45 minute trip over to York.  We wanted to show Andrea and Rebecca this ancient and very lovely city.  It is one of our […]

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Beth's Posts, Musings

War Eagle from England

March 10, 2014by The Haynes Family Leave a comment

Today’s guest bloggers are our friends from Auburn University: Rebecca and Andrea. When Rob called us and mentioned that his English friend Rusty had a hat collection that included a […]

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Musings

The Milk Man – (Things I thought were extinct)

March 8, 2014by The Haynes Family 2 Comments

Meg was invited to a pizza and movie night at a friend’s house last night.  I was sharing conversation and a cuppa tea with the Mom in their kitchen.  She […]

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Cooker and I, Moving to Durham? Read on...

Moving to the UK – Setting a Grocery Budget

March 6, 2014by The Haynes Family 4 Comments

This post is written mostly for those moving to the UK from American however budgeting ideas are easy to implement no matter where you live.    For those of you […]

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Cooker and I, Moving to Durham? Read on...

The History of England

February 28, 2014by The Haynes Family 5 Comments

One of the first things that we did upon moving to this beautiful land, so rich in history, was to purchase an English Heritage membership.  It would be a waste […]

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Moving to Durham? Read on..., Musings

Moving from the US to Durham, England

February 21, 2014by The Haynes Family Leave a comment

This post will begin a blog series on the ins and outs of making a move to Durham from the US. We read several blogs before making our move and […]

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Super Fab Science Lab

February 18, 2014by The Haynes Family Leave a comment

  During our Home Education adventure this year we have been incorporating Life Science for both children. It has been fun as we classify many of the plants and animals […]

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Adventures in Home Education

It is wonderfully R.A.D.

February 15, 2014by The Haynes Family 2 Comments

It has been a very busy Saturday for us. Joshua has fencing lessons on Saturday a.m. and for a few Saturdays Meg also has extra rehearsal for her ballet exams. […]

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Beth's Posts, Musings

Thieves, Knights and Farmers Oh My

February 8, 2014by The Haynes Family Leave a comment

We had a couple of sweet friends over tonight for dinner and games. We received a game for Christmas called “Carcassonne”.   It is a strategy game like risk but […]

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Adventures in Home Education, Beth's Posts

English Footie

February 1, 2014by The Haynes Family 7 Comments

Wednesday evening my dad and I got to enjoy a football match with another family from Carrville Methodist.  On the way there my dad was asking all of the important […]

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Joshua's Posts

Guess what day it is!?!

January 31, 2014by The Haynes Family 1 Comment

Do you know what day it is?  It is Friday.  It is Hump Day! You may be thinking, “It is not Wednesday!  Wednesday is the middle of the week!  Wednesday […]

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Musings, PhD at Durham, Rob's Posts

Hadrian’s Wall

January 27, 2014by The Haynes Family Leave a comment

Before moving to northeast England I had heard of the famous emperor Hadrian.  I also knew that he had ordered a very lengthy wall built but that was about the […]

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Adventures in Home Education, Beth's Posts

What’s for supper?

January 24, 2014by The Haynes Family 1 Comment

I am loving the little cooker in our kitchen.  It turns out wonderful, very economical meals with little effort on my part.  Last night our entire supper cooked together in […]

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Cooker and I

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