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Fabiola - a Tale of the Catacombs
A legendary book that I was overjoyed to find in an Op Shop way back in 2001 (before kids). Something about pre-natal check-ups and waiting rooms meant that ...
Bernard's Cake Recipe
How to make a good cake
Baby Monica
Sixth baby, second girl, second homebirth, first daytime birth. A new baby with two teenagers in the family.
Anki Catechism
Some years ago I had a go at using Anki to help learn the Baltimore Catechism. It probably helped a bit, but one of those things that dropped by the wayside.
Print Etsy Inventory
Working Online Demo
Chemistry Videos
Chemistry lectures - no - open day Chemistry lectures were a memorable highlight of my time at University.
A Term on Medieval History
Last term we read through Charlotte Yonge’s History of Rome which leads up to my favourite topic - Medieval Europe.
Raspberry Pi chat server in the home
Moodle For Home
Moodle is a Learning Management System - the big open source megalith of the Learning Management landscape.
Matching up Psalms
When we sing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Latin I often wonder how much my children understand.
Bowler and Comenius
It’s the last week of Term 3 and I’ve come up with two things.
Sacraments 2015
Teaching Coding
Woodford Pool aka Paradise Beach
Liber Doona Cover
A crazy idea while doing the washing up:
Teaching and Learning Latin
Scapulars
I got tired of cheap scapulars falling apart. I started looking up how to make your own. The Catholic Encylopedia has an article on Scapulars which says:
Static websites, cheap hosting
I’ve figured out a way to cut my hosting costs with Github Pages, Form Spree and Feedburner.
Pizza Cake
Epiphany Proclamation 2015
Moodling on the LAN
A few years ago I tried installing Moodle on my shared web hosting only to find out that you need more than regular shared hosting to run Moodle.
Educational TV
Sometimes you can actually find useful things from the National Broacaster.
Melbourne 2014
Most of us went to Melbourne again.
Maps of Australia
Moving Wagga-wards
What's in a name?
Hot Potatoes in Wordpress
This page started life as an incoherent test post, but turns out to be one of the most popular articles, so here goes making it coherent.
Use Linux
Guinea Pigs
As if we didn’t already have enough cute going on around here.
Chesterbelloc copywork
Here are some ideas for copywork from Project Gutenberg. Each link takes you to the ebook page. The HTML format is good for cutting and pasting into a word p...
Bikes
Peter has made himself a recumbent trike.
Baby Elizabeth
Good News! We have a baby girl!
DIY handwriting worksheets with LaTeX
There are several handwriting fonts already designed in METAFONT - the native font engine for TeX and family. Most of these are German, one Austrian, one Fr...
Online games to learn chant
Mix up educational programming software and teaching Gregorian chant:
MMXII
We did the Christus Rex Pilgrimage!
Hymn to St Mary of the Cross
Portrait of Mary of the Crossthanks to Papa Stronsay Pictures
A Curriculum for 2010
I'm writing this in late August, so maybe not so much a plan as a report.
A Curriculum for 2009
Perhaps not the school-in-a-box experience, but I'm thinking about a plan for this year.