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A legendary book that I was overjoyed to find in an Op Shop way back in 2001 (before kids). Something about pre-natal check-ups and waiting rooms meant that I read a lot of books that year.

How to make a good cake You will need 2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 3 eggs 1 tsp baking powder 1 tblsp oil 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup milk In a large mixing bowl put flour, sugar, and baking powder, then add eggs, oil, milk and water.

Each time I come to write one of these annual plans I am struck by how time flies. This year I have been looking at years 11, 9, 7, 5 and Kindergarten.

Sixth baby, second girl, second homebirth, first daytime birth. A new baby with two teenagers in the family.

Some years ago I had a go at using Anki to help learn the Baltimore Catechism. It probably helped a bit, but one of those things that dropped by the wayside.

Working Online Demo Etsy is a pretty and useful platform for selling handmade stuff. It isn’t always the most powerful platform for getting things done, but there are lots of commercial third party programs to help out.

Chemistry lectures - no - open day Chemistry lectures were a memorable highlight of my time at University. One thing you miss with homeschooling is easy access to test tubes, magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid.

Last term we read through Charlotte Yonge’s History of Rome which leads up to my favourite topic - Medieval Europe. Now, because of the Protestant Revolution, it is nigh impossible to find a public domain text of this period from a Catholic perspective, but here is the plan.

This morning’s diversion was setting up a chat server on the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a gadget that seems so full of possibilities, but hard to settle on one idea to run with.

Moodle is a Learning Management System - the big open source megalith of the Learning Management landscape. One drawback is that it needs more resources than can comfortably be supplied by your average cheap shared web hosting.