Points about Education, Education about Points?
Yesterday I was freaking out a bit (actually a complete panic meltdown would be a more suitable description) about whether I should send the kids back to mainstream school and was I just being a hippy thinking of Home Ed (HE).
Finding Paradise
When I was travelling around the USA by Amtrak, a woman I chatted to on one journey said, “I so envy what you are doing: I would so love to just take off and explore the world.” She was dripping with gold; I was living on a box of Bran Flakes and a large pack of M&Ms.
WW1 Diary
At 18 years old, James Sullivan volunteered for the Great War and was assigned to the 10th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusilers. After one week of target practice he was on his way to the Front Line. Four years later, James Sullivan began his Memoirs of his three years and...
Any Idiots in Your Family?
I was just checking out the census forms of 1901 for family history research and found the different 'forms' that were distributed at the time. I wonder how they assessed those who should be on 'Form D'? I Form E: Workhouse return. Form F: Hospital return. Form G:...
