Archives for November 2005

If you look in the comments, there is a link to a rather excellent Gaffer edit of this picture.

Home life is good at the moment. Oddly, the big two kids are really aware that i’m teetering on a bit of an emotional brink and are being lovely. I’m getting more cuddles, more affection and possibly more toleration for my flights of fancy than ever. There is something to be said for having bigger […]

Home educating Utopia 🙂 Fran and i get inspired by Jules’ blog about symmetrical pictures. We decide to give it a go. Having played with coloured squares on paper for a while, we got out paints and used cotton buds to blob paint on to folded card. Then she translated those blob pictures back on […]

The weekend wasn’t quite as bad as i thought it might be. We went to my parents, which proved a good distraction and though i cried quite a bit, privately, i didn’t fall to bits. Friday we pottered about here, packed and then drove up. Girls were lovely all day, helped choose presents for Josie […]

As a complete aside, this all unfolded right in front of me yesterday, though we didn’t know what was going on. We left AWorld, decided to go through town to get to Staples and suddenly found ourselves in the middle of police cars everywhere, sirens blaring and a police car that screamed past us and […]

So, hands up if you’ve been screaming “take her out of nursery” from the back rows for a while now? Yeah… thought so 🙁 Today was the last gasp attempt; i had a bit of a conversation with her very lovely class teachers, but they can’t tell me what to do, i watched her playing, […]

A strong-willed herald of causes against injustice, you passionately strive to right the wrongs around you. Somebody has to save our skins! Leia is a character in the Star Wars universe. See her character entry at the Star Wars Databank for more information.

I’m beginning to realise why maths never made sense to me. I’ve just tried to explain the version of subtraction i have always used and i can’t. It doesn’t make sense. (And here’s where i have to own up to the fact that most of the links Alison left me the other night whirled above […]

Amelie refused to go to nursery today. Tonight she has sat with Max and i and told us quite clearly that she wants to stay at home and that she won’t miss the friends she has made. Me, i’m not convinced of that, nor am i convinced she understands that once i withdraw her, she […]