AEFES Home Education & Unschooling Festival

There is a new home education festival with a strong Unschooling ethos. Having been inspired by HESFES, many teens and young adults wanted to create their own festival and so AEFES was born. AEFES stands for Alternative Education Festival and so encompasses not only home education but many other alternative forms of education.They're a community of adults, teenagers and children all working in unity to create a festival where all voices can be heard, all opinions considered and all decisions made in a democratic setting. AEFES believe in trust, faith and community spirit. Working as a team to create something magical for everyone.  Tickets can be purchased from http://www.aefes.co.uk/acatalog/AEFES_home_education_festival_tickets.html.  If you want to join the community check out the facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/516810371859856/

Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium - London

Museum of Childhood - London

Blackheath Music Festival

Sherlock Holmes Exhibition at The Museum of London

The Cartoon Museum

Trip To Hastings

Ancient Burial Site Oxford

HESFES Home Education Festival

Lambeth Country Show 2013

Medieval Workshop Orpington Roman Villa

Owen attended a Medieval history workshop were he learnt to make brass rubbings.

London Transport Museum

Anti Cuts Demonstration

Halloween 2012

HESFES 2012

Mallorca & Menorca 2012

Lambeth Country Show 2011

We sell our children’s clothes at lots of markets and fairs. Owen and Anya both enjoy helping to make the signs and then serve the customers on our stall. It is a great chance for them to develop their confidence serving customer and practice their mental arithmetic’s. In addition, the Country Show is a fabulous mix of culture, food, entertainment and fun.

Poets Corner Street Party 2011

The Royal Wedding - A Day Unlike Any Other

I try to educate my children in a way that is broader than the national curriculum and not constrained by religion and tradition. I feel the BBC's bias coverage of the Royal Wedding does not give my children a balanced perspective of what the Royal Wedding and the Royal family represent in modern Britain. The Guardian editorial points out that no former labour politicians were invited to the Royal wedding. That spiteful symbolic snub, alongside invites to world tyrants speaks volumes about the British ruling class which is slipping quickly back into its old ways now that the natural order of things has been restored by the Tories. The wedding is not a fairytale moment. Modern Britain is not fairyland. These are tough times for millions of British people. This is not a day for demented princess worship or for in-your-face state extravagance.





In order not to deprive my children of watching the wedding we stayed at home during the morning so that they could watch the TV if they chose. However, to their credit that preferred to play in the garden. We decided to join like minded parents and their children at a republican picnic. Over 50 local people joined us in Brockwell Park.

TUC Demonstration 26th March 2011

Why Are We Marching?

To defend jobs and services.

To oppose Cameron and his liberal side kicks.

To fight for a fairer society.

To use our public right to demonstrate.

Anya is wearing a girls dress from Stardust and Owen is wearing a kids t-shirt from Stardust.