[This was written offline on Monday afternoon]

With all the internet outages we’ve been having lately, a slight flaw in our educational program has been revealed. Without Teh Intarwebs, we have nothing to do… I was in the process of working out how to log into our new Physical Sciences subscription this afternoon when the ‘net went down. Without access, we can’t use our Science curriculum, our Maths curriculum, or our spelling tutor. We can’t even listen to our only semi-regular Arts activity, the Classics for Kids internet radio show. Given how B feels about books (*burn them!*), that doesn’t leave us much to do… As it happens, when instructed to find something educational to do which didn’t involve internet access, she decided to start listening to the CD of the Horrible Histories episode The Awful Egyptians (which she followed up with an episode from another audiobook: James and the Giant Peach, then The Measly Middle Ages), which was fine by me. But I think maybe we need to diversify our program slightly *g*

When I can actually log into the CyberEd website and look at the program outline, I want to use our fairly substantial science reference library to add a prac component to the theory. We have heaps of books of experiments, and I’m hoping it won’t be completely beyond my level of scientific literacy to put them together with the theoretical outline so that there is some kind of fit. But I can’t do that til I have Teh Intarwebs either *bangs head repeatedly on the wall*

Apart from these frustrations, B did some reading and maths with Nannie at the farm this morning, before they went in for her pottery lesson. Then Nannie took B and K off to the park for a little while, before having a cup of tea and popping up to the local shops for me to buy a couple of onions (I’m trying not to drive if I can possibly avoid it because it’s so painful). Now I have the onions, I can finish converting the contents of our vege crispers into dinners, so (in the absence of anything better to do) I may as well go do that now…