Mmm.. guess where i went today? I really hate the dentist 🙁 In fact, though i’m not really a big fan of these things, i think i really might have to consider practising some sort of calming technique for the final 2 fillings, because todays was awful. Granted i only had 3 hours sleep, thanks […]

It’s increasingly pointless to do this, but it never fails to amaze me how little effort can go into achieving the same goals that a year of work in school should achieve… so here goes, maths goals for Yr 3. (ie 9 months ahead of where Fran is now). By the end of year 3, […]

Fran is collecting data for a graph project. She’d be really delighted if her friends (children and adults) could answer these questions in the comments boxes so that she can use them to make different sorts of graphs. The questions are (more or less) all her own idea. 1. What is your favourite colour? 2. […]

My title was going to be “That was the day that wasn’t” but Tammy used it yesterday, so i found a new one! Today was Josie’s due date last year. As a reward, Fran and i picked her up a dolly while we were in town today. She’s been making off with Amelie’s for the […]

I’ve set up a group for Hama Bead Pictures. My plan is to use it to feed new ideas into BeadMerrily and i’d be most delighted if anyone who wanted to, would join. I’ve invited everyone who is on my contact list but i don’t have everyone on it. Obviously i’m going to be fairly […]

We “took in a movie” again today, this time Pooh’s Heffalump Movie. As we left, i said to fran “I’ll take you to the older girls ones next year, you are getting a bit big for films like that now aren’t you?” Cue shocked look from Fran. “Nooooooooooooooooo!” she said emphatically. Awwww…. bless her. She […]

I’ve just finished colouring my hair; i’ve been looking forward to doing it as i feel horribly dowdy and i thought the nice conditioned feel would help me last out till haircut day next week. Who just sat for 40 minutes with the developer and conditioner mixed together, massaged into my follicles???? With the colourant […]

Helen and Chris have to be the ones to blog this so i’ll just do a big thank you for our home grown archaeology dig over at the Beans today. We had enormous fun painting, smashing, bury and rebuilding pots and all my girls are glowing from the fun. Fran STILL wants to be a […]

The Polar Express, not a film easy to describe really. I’m at a loss to know whether it was good or bad. Storyline, not too predictable but strangely unrounded, animation – would have been breath-taking 10 years ago but they got the people as wrong as the first Toy Story. Interesting article about it here […]