h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello , I went back to this thread so as not to get lost .
Nice to hear about T.'s camping with the kids, we never do it, which is a pity. Where exactly did they go?
I'm having some time off and my daughter and I have got down to net-exploring Australia. Went to the Parks site, the pictures are gorgeous, but few. Also, we are not sure what your part of Western Australia looks like. It would be great to have a look at your immediate surroundings - then we could publish a collection of your poems with full-colour illustrations!

Hello I will do my best to get some pics on line for you of our place and the surrounding area failing that I will post some links for you....Tom and the kids went to this funny little place they know of near the Guilford River they rigged up fishing poles out of wire they found, sticks, a bent pin ....left over sausage and a wine bottle cork .....and they caught some fish can you believe it they got it on film the children are so proud of themselves
How are you feeling

It seems to me you can put your videos on the Fotki site
I hate these bugs! We let them torture us at least twice a year, and this is the 21st century! Where's modern science?

Hello Hope you're OK
Have you seen there's an entry on Australian slang in peer review?

Hello Iam fine have been inundated with paper work for uni that I have been madly filling out...looked at the peer review on slang... not bad I have not explored as much of the site as you and I didn't know this was there thanks ..... I am going to go back later and read some of the other entries I stuck my five cents worth in too.... which means gave my opinion ....on what they had written.

i am suppose to be doing the ironing and making pizza for lunch instead I have been gardening...moving the guineapig /rabbit hutch and playing on here much more fun playing here.

However the ironing isn't going to do itself and having announced to the family I was going to do it and they all knowing my track record they are laying bets on how long it will take before I run our of stalling tactics

I feel especially happy and light today not sure why maybe because it's the excitement of starting something new or simply having hubby and kids at home all in a good frame of mind or maybe that the day is cooler and a storm is predicted for tonight and I love storms especially when the lightning strikes who knows I just know it feels really good to be alive today and I hope your day is wonderful too

Hello I hope tomorrow looks as bright for you
Did you find the green banner at the top of this hootoo page inviting you to join in the fun etc...? It was there all along, but I had to get to Peer Review by some devious route...
There's a good article about the diversity of the market: "The long tail". Fancy a look?

Morning
Aaaah I didn't realise that when you put the cursor on those words they take you to sites I thought it was just a tag line your very clever I will have a look at the other articles to maybe even today as it is our Sabbath and a day of rest here.

On Sundays we generally all sleep in and then when we get up Tom BBQs some sausage and eggs and we have pancakes and out on the veranda followed by church. The rest of the day is spent resting either playing games or watching DVD's often having a siesta .

I guess church on the veranda sounds kind of strange we all sit around with our bibles and will share what ever we have learnt through out the week what we struggled with what we were grateful for what we wern't so grateful for then who ever feels lead will sing often thats Rafe or I we generally finish church by praying for others. When ever we have house guests they are invited to join us and often they do but they are also perfectly free not to Sometimes people ask ask don't we miss going to a real church but even if we had the opportunity now to go to a real church we would stick with this,

What does church look like for you that is if you are comfortable sharing

Hello
Your church sounds beautiful, I think I would love to join if I were invited .
I feel tongue-tied today after reading another piece of 'catholics are funny' here on hootoo.
I'm not fleeing yet...

Morning , I know what you mean when I first joined a lot of the sites I went to were very disparaging about people of faith It really made me wonder why they carried on the way they do not that they did not believe but that they have to state their viewpoint with so much antipathy and sarcasm. Ibelieve that God has created us all with a free will to choose and it is not my place to condemn anyone else for there choice nor would I ever try to force anyone else to make the same choice as me. ..

Which is one of the things we are trying to show the children on Sunday morning's that they need to choose out of a sincere belief themselves and not just because there father and I do.....but develop a relationship with Him that is real from their own experience…..Both Tom and I were raised as Catholics he in the Scottish tradition and I in the Italian/Irish I was sent to boarding school where we got to see the lives of the nuns up close day in and day out … personally a life devoted to God the way they do it looked very beautiful to me.

Having said all that I joined the star trek club here on Hootoo today not sure what that involves mind you but maybe we should start one here for people of faith if there isn't one already I like the idea of something like Lil's .....what do you think

My holidays are over, I'm starting work tomorrow, which means no time for the net. I have a much better idea now of what I am doing here and what I can expect. It's good that we've met,and it's good to know that you-know-Who arranged our meeting. It's fun to know that whatever the kicks and the screams of those who deny Him, they can't drive Him out of the world and even here in cyberspace He is with us.

I am glad you are feeling better I am still waiting to see what inmpact Uni will have on my time but I supect I wont be able to mess about on here so much either but I certainly plan on giving it a go

I've lost one of my threads with you and can only hope I didn't say anything so wrong that it made you unsubscribe. I suppose I am a permanence - stupid.

Sent you email to explain my unsubs rest assured nothing to do with you just me and my perculiar habits.

Have been busy teaching laird how to sew a quiver for his home made bow and arrows I may live to regret encouraging this

I want to get him some wood carving tools he has spent teh last couple of weeks carving chess pieces for his own chess set now if i lived in Russia I would come round and ask your hubby if laird could watch him

How goes lessons with your student and what have you discovered about us weird mob known as homeschoolers so far

I've learnt how a catholic homeschooling family change a light bulb (it is in the lost thread).
And also, incredibly, that 1,7 % of American children are homeschooled.
And, as my 17-year-old correspondent wrote, that many families opt for homeschooling because they want 'to teach their children to respect the values which they hold dear'.
BTW I've heard about Howard Gardner and was impressed by what I learnt.
An English teacher trainer cited Gardner in a lecture he gave in Moscow. I kept repeating the quotes to my friends for a while, but never got hold of the book. What impressed me most was that the mainstream school is almost entirely addressed to logical/mathematical and linguistic intelligencies and that people of the kinesthetic type prevail among the inmates of penitentiary institutions.
Thanks for reminding me about this name, there's some info about H.G. on the net, it 'll make an interesting read and we can discuss it with my students - they're having exams this year, and are absolutely worn out by now as well as worried about the exams. So I don't give them any homework, we just meet and discuss various aspects of education,
as this is our current topic. My favourite students all go to a school with an in-depth study of math, and are typical representatives of the
logical and linguistic types - a treasure for a language teacher.
Bye, off to read about Gardner.We may talk about his 'types' today.
The kids had better know they are not the best, but just the lucky ones who fit the system. That'll blow a bit of pride off them

Ahhh do you know my hero HG there is a very good article that i will post on the next thread for you to read later meantime i am absolutely beat have just got back from teh city where I spent the day helping out a friend who is not 100% and then i took my beautiful eldest boy out for dinenr and a movie I really enjoy our time together when I get one on one however the drive back has left me knackered so i am off to bed will drop you a line tomorrow My research into Kinesthetic and Visiual spatial may be of interst to you I have also developed some assesments for relaly young children as well Huge yawn okay that me done for the night

I never fail to lurk at your thread with Nick - to keep up to date. Yesterday I happened to have some free time and explored the 'blogosphere'. Found incredible amount of 'homeschoolmum' talk (mostly American), some very good for my outsider's 'how do things go out there?' purposes.
Treasures of humdrum lives lived with thrill and enthusiasm.
Have you got this kind of virtual homeschooling communities in Australia?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=3782395 This is a link to another 'morality' thread of January 2007

To be honest I have no idea if they exsist here in Austrlia if I get some free time later in the week I will check it out? Do you have any web site addresses you can post so I can have a look at the American blogs so I have some idea of what I am looking for...Hope your well

http://www.carriebartkowiak.com/
Here's one. It gives a link to an essay on '5 reasons to homeschool' and a reference to this: http://happyheartsathome.blogspot.com/
and this: http://mothercroneshomeschool.wordpress.com/
You are sure to find what you need by wandering from blog to blog - they are all intertwined and beautiful, they must be based on more advanced technology than hootoo and are full of pictures, music and references.

P.S. Please pray for QuietSoulSearcher - she is going through a difficult time at the moment.

Hello
How are you these days? All wounds and bruises from the Thingite battles? It would be great to hear from you. How are hubby and the kids
doing?
The school year is almost over and I'm rushing between the dacha and the city, with a slim hope of settling down in the country with cat and dog and most of the kids eventually... We had an unbearable bout of heat (up to over 40 Centigrade), it has eased up a bit recently.
Looking forward to hearing from you (while I am still in the city, for I am off line in the country - no way I'll drag the comp there )
Best regards,
Elena