Will Dig Life

In the course of my work with Churchear, we travelled to Oslo - a work trip for me, but Mr. and the kids got to explore a new country and city. Mid-March meant there was still snow on the ground, which the kids were extremely excited about!  I didn't see much of the place at all, but the others were busy exploring and having fun! Here are some photos... Visiting a reptile sanctuary Sightseeing At a museum - historic children's toys They found a brilliant outdoor museum where lots of historic buildings were open to walk into and interact with! In a historic house D trying his hand at blacksmithing We visited a friend's house, who happened to have some sledges which the kids much enjoyed! The snow was mostly ice, and some grassy patches, but they weren't deterred. The friends also had an aquarium which the kids found fascinating Goodbye Norway, see you again in August!

Last week, a reporter and cameraman from the BBC visited our house to do a feature about home education. It was great fun, a real adventure for the kids to be interviewed! The team spent 90 minutes at our house, but of course they had to condense that down to a couple of minutes for the feature, and sadly the kids' interviews didn't make the cut. (A transcript article of the feature is here ) I had put my hand up for doing this because the reporter had every intention to make this a positive piece on home education, and so it was; the premise was to try and answer why there had been such an uptick in home education in the past few years. They interviewed two mothers, probably strategically chosen: me as the one who always wanted to home educate, and the other mum as someone who felt she had to due to her son's needs.  They interviewed me at length, and of course only a few seconds of that made it to the screen, but inevitably it was the part to do with social skills that th...