We have had a good day at our monthly cookery group today. All the kids were busy making loads of pancakes between them and eating them of course! There were some very strange combinations of toppings but they all enjoyed themselves. I did see one of the boys load his pancake up with lemon juice, brown sugar, white sugar, maple syrup and golden syrup....YUCK! Still they had a run around every so often to let it all go down and then came back to make more! I'm sure there were a few hyper children this evening!! Eilidh and Ben fortunately didn't eat too many and stuck to quite normal toppings!

The usual people who we have at these groups are a good bunch and it's getting really good with a cookery, Science and Art groups all going really well. We also are hoping to start a sports/ games and maybe a music group as well.

Last night Jayne, our friend who organises most of these groups came around to sort out the plans for the next few months art groups. We are going to be starting a country theme to fit in with the cookery, art and maybe even science groups so we can add on bits of language and culture etc as well, which sounds really good.

I was listening to the news tonight and they say that children in this country are starting school too early and we are being tested too much. MMMM, I wonder if that's why more people are home-educating???? It always amazes me that the majority of people we have met through Home Educating are ex-teachers. Just goes to show........