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About kazhoney

I recently (2018) made a decision to live a more plastic free life. This blog documents my successes and failures and is a way to encourage me on in my move towards a plastic free life.

‘Craeftiga’ Craft Show – Sutton Hoo

It was lovely for us today to be the people visiting an event, rather than demonstrating at one. Today we visited ‘Craeftiga’ craft show at Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial ground. It was our first ever visit to the site. ‘Craeftiga’ … Continue reading

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Craft Day

Not much historical value in this article. It’s mostly for fun.  About Christmas time, chatting with my friends, I said I thought it’d be a great idea to have a craft day, where we all got together to teach each … Continue reading

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Burton End Primary -WW2 workshop

Another new school for us, and pretty close to home too.  Also a new topic for this age group.  We were running our Year 9 workshop for Year 6.  We’d run the workshop for Year 7s before and they’d seemed … Continue reading

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Springwood High – GCSE Medieval Medicine

How lovely it is to talk to older children for a change.  We love visiting primaries but it’s really nice to have a change of aspect and talk at a higher level.  This workshop is one of our favourites and … Continue reading

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Asquith Primary School – KS1 Castle workshop

What a lovely time we had at Asquith primary School in Mansfield last week.  It was our first visit to this school and if I’m honest I could not have asked for things to be much more perfect.  We have … Continue reading

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Audley End – Victorian toys & games

I have been very behind on the blog front lately as we’ve been so busy, so expect an onslaught of blogs this week!  We were at Audley End House, Essex over half term running our Victorian toys display.  We’ve been at … Continue reading

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St Josephs Primary – KS1 Castle Life workshop

Today we visited St Josephs Primary School. It was our second visit to the school.   The school is lucky enough to have a separate hall from the lunch hall, which was great and meant we did not need to start … Continue reading

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Guildford High School – KS3 Medieval Life

We have been visiting Guildford High School since our first year in business 10 years ago and this year was in fact our 11th visit to the school. It’s an early up for us as Guildford is at least 2 … Continue reading

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Nansen Primary School – KS1 Castle Life

We had our first ever visit to Nansen Primary School in Birmingham this week.  The school is named after Fridtjof Nansen, the famous Norwegian Arctic explorer.  I was fascinated to see this as I’ve always had an interest in polar … Continue reading

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St Lukes Primary School

This was our first ever visit to St Luke’s primary school, in Northants.  We’re extremely lucky to have friends who live near the school, so we travelled down the night before.  It had being snowing recently in Northants and we … Continue reading

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