I’m having trouble getting ebay, google, bbc and flickr to load – is this justy me or has the internet died? Everything else seems fine….

In all the right ways. We’ve entered a period of HE that i feel really comfortable with and which i very much hope is the way we are heading. I think we’ve been in training for it for a while, in that fairly strict rules over the last year or 2 seem to have set […]

*rant alert* The Observer, Why Mothers Should be Offered Caesareans. Job to know where to start on that one, though “f*ck off you stupid, ill-informed Daily Mail style ‘journalist’ bint” might be quite a good start. 🙄 Judging by the comments on the Observer Blog quite a few people feel the same. Why shouldn’t we […]

I know i’m beginning to sound like a whinging parody of Joyce’s blog – but i’m ill again. 🙁 The low level chest thing doesn’t seem to have cleared up and by last nght i was sore, shivery, coughing and hot again. It doesn’t seem so bad today, although like Amelie i have earache, but […]

Yesterday Max bought Watership Down for the girls; now, leaving aside my “you can’t watch it till you’ve read it” obsessions, this would have been fine. Not so fine is that a) i was pretty sure Fran would bawl for England and b) well.. you’ll see. So this morning we heard them all get up […]

Easing back into the swing of things now, everyone seems to be rising up out of the ashes of illness, thank goodness. Josie would be a whole lot happier if some of her molars would come through, but i guess they will eventually. I do wonder what the evolutionary point of sore gums while teething […]

I’ve had a remarkably quiet day, the children all started playing a variety games early on and pretty much left me alone all day. Maddy and Amelie started off by opening a rollercoaster stand, complete with food stall, money, tickets and a rather alarming number of serious injuries to riders 😆 Still, i saw plenty […]

Feels so much brighter all of a sudden, doesn’t it? We actually had the back door open for a bit today and it made such a difference to feel fresh air around my nose. Today has been a “get set for March” day really, so while i could fake education, there hasn’t been a lot. […]

*Lose 3lbs a month – yep! Be up to date with my tax figures all year – ahem *Do one set of new patterns for the site each month – yep! *DO one worthwhile newsletter a month – yep! *Add up personal finances – yep! Offer more science – oops. Offer more art, both appreciation […]

The girls seem to like Education City. maddy spent a long time on it this morning, then Amelie did, and Fran and i spent ages together on it this afternoon. After the maths wobble of the other week, i want to see if she really did have gaps in what she understood, so i set […]