Which makes 10 days altogether too long by half. So – where were we? Well, we had precisely no conversations about school at all, except one between me and Max where he told me off for being too negative about it. I’ll concede the point, but it is hard to get excited about school looming […]

Fran sent a quote into CBBC Newsround and got a snippet of it put on the front page.

Yesterday i cleaned out our current room of doom, what used to be the stockroom which became the office, which we attempted to turn into a study but actually became a hell hole of junk. It was virtually at the “can’t get in” stage, so when something fell on Kirsty’s head in there, i thought […]

The kids have had a second laid back week this week (last week!), making the most of the half termites ( 😉 ) It has suited me quite well and allowed me to crack on with some work which needs to be done by the end of Feb. We’re launching a new site every month […]

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We’re lucky enough to live in a fairly closed road (i hope i don’t regret daring to breathe this out loud by one of them getting knocked over tomorrow) and so “go out and play in the road” is a fairly common command around here; this week, with it being half term, their bunch of […]

My own (irate) response to the DCSF “independent review” was number 1012 – will we be able to get it to 1500 before the 20th? If you need one reminder why to respond, then read my blog post on it. Or you could read any of Gill’s posts or any of Carlotta’s posts – and […]