I’m expressing mild irritation (all day, on and off, to anyone who’ll listen) at SOTW4 referring to conscription in WW1 as “the draft” – i’ve never heard it referred to as that in any sort of colloquial sense although this, rather tiny print webpage, seems to be clear enough that there were ‘draft’ papers here. […]

I’ve not made any calls about room configurations yet, but the flexible space at Medway sounded promising. I’m thinking October, half term if i can get it. Otherwise, i’m thinking Hunstanton, because i know the room at the back would make a good rehearsal room. I can’t believe i’m even suggesting this…. i never learn!

Among many other things, yesterday Max and i talked a bit about how to manage 4 children and educating people in the style that suits us, when there is only one adult to do it. While i often do find it difficult, i think it is easy to forget that with the benefit of gradually […]

Fran came across a story on Newsround about a boy who had left school at 11 and who was now running a business at the age of 16. Newsround didn’t say “home educated” but i suggested perhaps he was (she took some persuading!) and we Googled to find more about him and discovered his story […]

Got back to doing some “stuff” yesterday, but can’t actually remember what, mostly people lounging about reading improving stuff i think. Maddy is adoring her I Can Read books and now rates reading above drawing in the favourite stakes. I call that quite a result as she’s had a very hands off approach to learning, […]

We’ve been away, or at least most of them went away and i stayed, then i went too and we all came back. They had a nice ten days and i had a nice 4 days and all would have been perfect if life hadn’t reasserted itself right at the end and left us with […]

Today seemed to work very well; i’ve got out of the habit of going to work on a Monday as it just doesn’t seem to kick the week off very well. Instead, we made a plan of how we wanted the day to work, figured out what each of us needed to do in that […]

Max had planned to go classic car racing with his dad yesterday, but in the end his dad (who has recently started dialysis and was feeling much better) wasn’t so good again, so he decided to go but take Maddy instead. The rest of us planned to spend the day with my parents and the […]

One of the things that i find intrinsically interesting about running a retail business, is trying to second guess what is going on in peoples minds and what it is that influences people. Having had BM for a good few years now, i’ve got plenty of stuff to look back on and the things that […]

Can’t really think where i was. I don’t think we did much the rest of Bank Holiday (though i could be woefully wrong.) EDIT: *blush* Oh yes, i remember, we were invited to R and E’s gym party and had a lovely time there, once we found it. Damn aaroutemaster for having the wrong postcode […]