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November you can kiss my….

November 29, 2012 by

It seems November is determined to compete with April for crapola. It's been a really tough month. For the sake of argument we will include here the last two events of October. First there was my cork plugging op, which sadly did not go entirely as planned or hoped. To the best of my knowledge […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Maddy Tagged With: argh, balanitis, essure, eye surgery, illness, stress, swollen thyroid, worry

Zoology in Cambridge

November 11, 2012 by

While Max was having his eyes sucked and burned off (I probably shouldn’t have read the description of surgery on the way down to him having it done) we went to the Zoological Museum to distract ourselves. This was quite difficult actually as I was mentally planning how I was going to run the family […]

Filed Under: Science, Trips Out Tagged With: days out, drawing, laser eye surgery day, science, The Big Draw on Tour, Zoology Museum

WedEd loveliness Halloween/Fairytale style.

October 28, 2012 by

WedEd played a blinder this week; this group home ed meeting has settled into something that seems to work really well now and I mostly feel like I pull my weight, which makes me feel better. Bene is (temporarily I suspect) not too high maintenance there, so I can do a couple of activities. Once […]

Filed Under: Autumn Crafts, Fimo Models, Science, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: making fimo fairy houses, making onion skin slides, pumpkin carving, the lady of shallott

Normal service will resume…

October 11, 2012 by

Shortly. Possibly. Life has got rather complicated. Not only do we have children doing what is fast becoming an almost impossible combination of activities but business is heading into its busy time and 2 of our staff are moving. Gulp. Luckily we will manage, but the well oiled machine will be, erm, using different oil. […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Fimo Models, Fran, Photos, Thinking, Trips Out

Semantics. Conversation. Truths.

October 4, 2012 by

In the doctors the other day With Bene, not yet as poorly as he was today sat on the floor, an old lady asked me how many children I had. And I replied, as I always do “I have had six, he is number six”. Across the room another lady chipped in; “Six! How did […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief, Thinking

A night at the MADS

October 3, 2012 by

As you probably know, I was nominated in several MAD blog awards recently. I should probably get it out of the way quickly and say I didn’t win any of my categories and am therefore not nearly inspiring enough to interest any of you further 😉 However, I did have a brilliant night and I […]

Filed Under: Thinking, Trips Out Tagged With: amazing night, insolia shoes, m&s, mad blog awards, myleene klass, per una dress, purple dress, regis uk, tots 100, velvet evening dress

Not the language post I planned to write today.

September 21, 2012 by

But you know what, this one is more important. Because when I came across this literacy set in a toy shop today, I just wanted to cry. What the hell is something like this doing in a shop, alongside keywords, sight words and literacy in the 21st century? How can it possibly be that anyone, […]

Filed Under: Thinking Tagged With: feminism, fridge msgic, gender stereotyping, literacy sets, sexism

In the end.

August 24, 2012 by

In the end, it all comes back to one simple thing. I was one person and then my world fell apart. I put it back together and it fell apart all over again when my son died. Putting it back together again, trying to pick up the reins of a life that ran away from […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief, Thinking

The summer is gone before it began.

August 21, 2012 by

Suddenly there is only 10 days left before my big girl is back in school. Oh, how I wish she had long private school holidays like I had. We’ve loved having the time together, the 7 of us. Holiday has really brought home how much I miss her in the house. Without her here every […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Fran, Maddy, Music, Trips Out Tagged With: Acorn International, Dartmoor weather, growing up, guitar grade 1, music lessons

Simple Science. Colours. Very absorbing.

August 2, 2012 by

Also known as a fun bit of sort of science from which we will later extrapolate something useful when the moment calls for it 🙂 The other day I saw this quick experiment pop up on Pinterest; I pinned it to my educational oddments board but showed Maddy. We had been talking about how to […]

Filed Under: Science

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