I knew I should have blogged yesterday!

But I had got somewhat distracted by anger with the Royal Institution. yes, that place that i have raved about for their great science lectures for school aged children, and their welcome of HE-ers. Unfortunately no more! No, instead they are charging a slight increase to HE-ers compared with school educated children, as they are concentrating on ‘mainstream education’. Looking at the events, this turns out to be a factor of 400%. not so slight!

We welcome home educators to participate in the schools programme at the Royal Institution.

Our popular programme of demonstration events operate during school term times, and tickets are available through our events calendar. We charge a small ticket fee to minimise non-attendance and we invest ticket income into the events that we put on. Home educator fees are slightly higher than those for school parties, as our programme is primarily intended for those in mainstream education.

We charge a small ticket fee to minimise non-attendance and we invest ticket income into the events that we put on. Tickets for school groups are £1.50 per person (teachers and students). School groups are welcome to combine their visit with a tour of the museum. Call the schools dept on … for more information, or to book our limited space for your students to have lunch.
Home educators are welcome, priced at £8 for adults and £6 for young people. Home educators can buy Ri membership and get their tickets for £4.

if you find this to be as discriminating against home educated children as i do, feel free to contact them!

Hmm, lets get back to the task in hand – blogging! well, we are still moving things from the normal playroom/home ed room, as the windows are being stripped, fixed and painted, and messy, dusty and full of painters, so that took some time!

girls did some home ed in the conservatory with me – SB maths and handwriting, BB music theory and explode the code. SB also did some piano prac, oh, and had a golf lesson first thing! We finally parcelled and sent off chloe’s present.

We finished watching Prince Caspian, and then having made a spur of the moment date with lecielrouge family to geocache the following day, and having just received through the post our new travelbugs, we sat and made chunky fimo keyrings for them! well, i did and SB did, but BB made a v delicate one of me [which is lovely, tho not quite so representational] and chris already had a chrisbead made previously, so that they were all ready to go out. i did stay up somewhat late varnishing them…