Archive for the 'other' Category

The Prick on The Volcano

Four years ago I told my daughter this story…
“One day there was a huge volcano full of swirling lava and burning gas. A rock fall at the peak of the volcano closed its top over, trapping the lava and gas inside. From the outside it looked like a peaceful mountain, but inside it was growing […]

Australia’s First Unschooling Conference Retreat

YAY to Maree & Erica, the crazy unschooling mums who have managed (in all their spare time) to initiate the first ever…
AUSTRALIAN UNSCHOOLING CONFERENCE RETREAT
September 3 - 7. 2010. @ The beautiful Tallebudgera Tourist Park, Gold Coast, Qld.
Come together with other natural learning families for the first ever Unschooling Conference in Australia! Featuring special […]

Time is Relative

I know it’s been a while (about 7 months) since my last post, but as Einstein said, “time is relative.”
Of course he was referring to space time and how if one clock sits on a couch doing nothing but ticking and  another clock travels through space on some groovy rocket ship at close to the […]

Still Alive

Just a quick post to say that i’m still alive & kicking.
I made it back from my trip to the USA with very fond memories of meeting other unschoolers including Arp & Trish (and hearing of their impending move to Costa Rica). I especially appreciated staying with Phoenix & his family who were extremely […]

New York, New York

I will be in New York in a few weeks! From October 27 to October 31.
It will be the longest time I’ve spent away from my kids (8 days in total, the other few days I have a commitment for our biz). I’ve been discussing ‘how to make it work’ for M (6yrs) and it […]

Before I had children…

before I had children I thought sleeping in was waking up after lunch… now I think its getting to 8am
before I had children I wondered what stay at home parents did with all their time… now I wonder what people without children do with all of theirs
before I had children friends called me […]

Roll Call

I did something like this over 6 months ago but wanted to do it again because I’m really keen to find out a little bit about you! It’s simple and hopefully fun, so please do add your comment.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to simply copy and paste the list below into […]

Subscribe to the Pit!

You may have noticed that im not like other bloggers who are able to write something daily.
I promised myself when i started this site that id only blog when a mildly interesting thought popped into my brain.
But here is a confession… im not actually an interesting person at all! Not in the slightest! […]

Elfed

Some good friends MM&W just emailed us one of the most tacky, inane, time wasting and plain old silly christmas web gimmicks that I have seen for ages…
so of course we had to have a go too… click this link to see us get elfed and then follow the options to do your own.
If you […]

Redecorating…

This site was launched on November 22, 2006… almost 1 year ago. It was about 2 months later before anyone found it
Thankfully visitor stats have continued to rise and now I’ve done a major update to the site layout to make it more user friendly. Hope you like it!