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We harvested the garlic this week, opening up a bed for other things! It’s my granddaughter (age almost 7) who pulled it all out and arranged it on the old shelf that I use for various purposes in the garden. She chose to spend hours carefully stripping any messy leaves and placing them just so… and thinking her thoughts! The shelf is across the sides of my compost bins, if you can’t quite figure out what you’re looking at here! This week some men in our parish got together to formulate a plan for protecting the physical church and grounds....

Get the latest on coronavirus. Sign up to the Daily Brief for news, explainers, how-tos, opinion and more. When we ask Terri-Anne Hamer how she has coped with four months of home-schooling, she talks about craft-making, baking and helping her children stay on top of their school work.  But for the single mum from Leeds, every one of these activities has been against the odds – even the simple act of responding to her children’s constant pleas for food.  “I had to explain to the kids that we only had mummy’s money and life was harder now we were in...

As the coronavirus epidemic progresses, much of the world has settled into a temporary routine: Masks, social distancing, working from home, homeschooling. Yet the ripple effect of the COVID-19 disruption extends far beyond physical restraints, even for people who have avoided contracting the disease thus far. Sign up for TPG’s daily newsletter Bi-national families and couples have been separated for months as countries worldwide closed their borders, hoping to halt the spread of the coronavirus. But some couples have begun petitioning their governments for leniency as the pandemic passes the half-year mark worldwide. In fact some European countries have agreed...

As the whole country continues to fight a pandemic of epic proportions, many parents across it are already thinking—and worrying—about the season that's coming next: sending kids back to school. While the government is pushing for full school re-opening, parents are not necessarily feeling 100% comfortable with that. Mama and blogger Nikki Pennington captured that feeling very eloquently in a Facebook post that has gone viral after being published a day ago. In her post, Pennington talks about how no decision she can make right now feels right, and that the only thing that would feel right is going back...

Come rain or shine, learning about the weather can be fun! In the video above and blogpost below, you will find a range of learning tips to teach kids about the weather. Plus, each activity supports both school and home learning.   1. Rainbow Crafts for Kids Make learning about the weather extra fun with rainbows! During COVID-19, there has been a worldwide display of crafty rainbows on windows, pavements and roads. When introducing weather to kids, rainbows are a fascinating scientific phenomenon, whilst also helping children to develop colour recognition. To create a rainbow as seen in the video above, you...