by Liz Deacle | Homeschooling, Podcasts
If you are wondering how to balance homeschooling and working at the same time then you are in the right place.
I have been homeschooling for almost ten years, and for the second time in my homeschooling career, I find myself, once again, in the position of balancing homeschooling with earning some money.
Why I didn’t marry a millionaire I’ll never know.
Still. At least I know plenty of ways to homeschool for free.
Homeschooling (when you’re a complete novice)
My first attempt at homeschooling and working full time was a disaster.
Awful.
I made lots of mistakes and ended up feeling like a squashed banana on a busy highway.
So this time around I made sure that I did things differently.
For a start, I learned how to homeschool for 3 days a week and have time for other things.
That’s one of the benefits of homeschooling – you get to learn from your mistakes and then you become brilliant. Or at the very least, really good.
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by Liz Deacle | Podcasts, Travel
If you have always dreamt of living in New Zealand, are under 30 years old and have a bit of dosh saved up (enough to get you back to your own country) you can spend a year working in New Zealand by getting yourself a year-long working Visa.
That way you can see how you like it.
This weeks podcast episode features Adam, a twenty-something chappy from the UK is doing just that.
After being persuaded by his mate to leave Thailand and come to New Zealand to work on a fairground, he got himself a year-long working visa and headed down under.
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by Liz Deacle | New Zealand Travel, Podcasts
In the ten years that we have spent living in New Zealand, my family and I have never been glamping.
Not once.
Let’s face it. It’s not the sort of thing you want to do with two kids, is it?
But.
With the kids now old enough to make their own beans on toast, Brian and I decided that it was time to check out what this New Zealand glamping craze was all about.
Get us a little bit of hippy outdoorsy fun.
And while we were there – glamping in New Zealand – we made a podcast episode for you. And wrote a post.
After all; what else would a husband and wife do when they find themselves alone without their kids for the first time in nineteen years??
Come on. You know you wanna…
If you would like to listen to why you will LOVE Glamping in New Zealand podcast while you read, then hit the play button now!
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by Liz Deacle | Podcasts
This week’s podcast is brought to you by me (Liz) and my husband Brian.
It is brought to you with love. And with wine and with sushi.
This is a different kind of podcast format from any other that we’ve done in the past (and, I won’t lie, it was slightly scarier).
Brain and I will talk about what’s on top for us right now. As parents. As husband and wife. As friends.
What share we are loving, what are we struggling with and how we are dealing with both.
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by Liz Deacle | Emigrating, New Zealand Travel, Podcasts
I wish I’d read a post like this when we were looking to move to New Zealand ten years ago.
At least then I would have been prepared. I could have packed a hot water bottle and a sun hat and some hankies.
But I didn’t.
Instead, I got to the other side of the world and blubbed for six months about how my family never returned my calls and that the bathroom in the house that we were renting was cold and smelly and damp.
If you would like to listen to our New Zealand podcast while you read, then hit the play button now!
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by Liz Deacle | New Zealand Travel, Podcasts
Last week I received this email.
“Hi. I am thinking of moving to New Zealand with my family but I am concerned that as we are moving from the UK, my eldest son (who is 12) will be bored. Could you give me any advice?”
Righteo then. Let’s see what I can do.
I have two kids, a boy age 18 (note to oneself, must stop calling him a kid) and a daughter who is 15.
We have been living in New Zealand for almost eleven years. We emigrated from the UK for a better way of life.
And yes.
We found it.
(You can listen to our podcast on kids in New Zealand while you read!)
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