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 […]

I warn you, this is not a post for the stoics. Not that i’m actually go on about things, but you might as well know i’m struggling a bit. I’ve never been good at anniversaries and i’ve been dreading this 2 weeks for a year. So far it isn’t too bad, but it would help […]

The people who lived here before us were a bit of a bad lot. They left without paying 6 months rent, the house was trashed, i’m still fending off debt collectors and baliffs for around £25,000 worth of credit card and various other debt and, not surprisingly, they left no forwarding address. Equally, they had […]

Read several Roman myths. Make a list of Roman Gods to compare with greeks. Add Roman Empire to Timeline book. Look back at some Roman stories in OIS Get out mosaic squares and play Look at Rome in Cross section. Have a go at some clay columns? Look at Detectives in Togas and see if […]

Max and i spent a bit of the morning revving the car up; he diagnosed black-black smoke to be less bad than blue-black. (Well he would know, if anyone can read smoke signals from an exhaust pipe, he can.) We stuck some cleaner in the fuel and then needed to drive it. So we went. […]

a) Black smoke coming out in large quantities from the back of your diesel car. b) Your diesel engineer husband going green. No need to ask if it’s going to be expensive then 🙁 And there went our weekend, approximately 5 minutes after setting off.