Dear Readers,
You should check out the Tea and Crumpets website. I'm changing the way it's organized, so soon you will be able to look at all of the chapters of a serial at once, and find the story or artwork you want to see without needing to remember which issue it's in. Plus, I'm putting all of the issues of Tea and Crumpets into PDF(Portable Document Format), so that you can print them out at your leisure.
Thank you for reading this smelly old newspaper.
Mary Moberly
Senior Editor of the
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A Quick Description of the Moberly Children
David Moberly, 20, INFJ, has been homeschooled since his freshman year of highschool. During that time, he received A+ Certification, started his own computer fixing business and wrote 4 articles for the Manhattan Mercury (receiving Kansas Press Association Honorable Mention Award for one of them). He then went to college at BYU (Brigham Young University), majoring in English. After completing his freshman year, he began serving a mission for the LDS church in Alaska. He will be returning in June. He has a website containing his writings.
Aleatha Moberly, 19, INFP, was homeschooled for two years of her high school life. She is a very thoughtful and imaginative young woman who loves to read. She also has good taste in matters aesthetic. She is a good photographer, painter, and writer. She sews many of her own clothes, and is interested in fashion. She is currently in her freshman year at BYU, majoring in Comparative Literature. Her future career will be "anything that has to do with reading, writing, and thinking". She has a blog.
Joseph Moberly, 17, ESTJ, has found that he works best in a public school environment. He is a very bright student, getting mostly A’s. He wants to go on to college at the University of Oklahoma and major in Meteorology. Then he would like to become a storm chaser and a Meteorologist(one who studies the weather).
Mary Moberly, 15, INTP, has been homeschooled for 2½ years now. During that time she has published the Tea and Crumpets and her Sense Free Education Worksheets, written a story, among other things, read books, etc. She enjoys what she does. When she goes to college, she will go to BYU and major in Linguistics (the study of languages), then she will probably eat up everything in sight and take over the world. (I think so, she never really told me.) She has a blog.
Emma Moberly, 12, INTP, has been homeschooled for 3 years so far. She enjoys reading silly books and drawing comics. She is a
Benjamin Moberly, 9, ESFJ, Is a wild little boy who likes to play video games. He has equally wild friends in his 3rd grade class at public school. He is an expert reader, and reads more books than any other kid in his class. (He has read all of the Harry Potter books and Lemony Snicket books.) He is very bright and very silly. He likes to play pretend games with Emma.
Rebecca Moberly, 10 months, has two teeth. Her favorite activities are using her voice, eating things, playing with toys, crawling, standing, and attempting to do what everyone else can do.
Snicket, Lemony. The Slippery Slope. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. pg. 278
"Well-read!" [Esmé] repeated in a particularly nasty tone of voice. "Being well-read won't help you in this world. Many years ago, I was supposed to waste my entire summer reading Anna Karenina, but I knew that silly book would never help me, so I threw it into the fireplace."..."And look at me! I'm beautiful, fashionable, and I smoke cigarettes!"
Dahl, Roald. Matilda. New York: Puffin Books, 1996. pp
"Of course we read," Mr. Wormwood said. "Don’t be so daft. I read the AutoCAD and the Motor from cover to cover every week."
"This child has already read an astonishing number of books," Miss Honey said. "I was simply trying to find out if she came from a family that loved good literature."
"We don’t hold with book-reading," Mr. Wormwood said.
"You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books. We don’t keep them in the house."
"I see," Miss Honey said. "Well, all I came to tell you was that Matilda has a brilliant mind. But I expect you knew that already."
"Of course I knew she could read," the mother said. "She spends her life up in her room buried in some silly book."
"But does it not intrigue you", Miss Honey said, "that a little five-year-old child is reading long adult novels by Dickens and Hemingway? Doesn't that make you jump up and down with excitement?"
"Not particularly," the mother said. "I'm not in favour of blue-stocking girls. A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..."
"The name is Honey," Miss Honey said.
"Now look at me," Mrs. Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks."