Decided last night i absolutely had to just have some “completely normal” time today and get my feet back on the ground. Emma kindly agreed to come a different day instead, so we started the day with everyone just doing “normals” while Lucy packed parcels. Bliss, a weekends worth of work done in 2 hours, […]

BBC NEWS | Education | Whose classroom curriculum is it? I’m really not very up on all this stuff about new legislation for HEers, in fact, i’m ashamed to say it only hazed in on the centre of my field of view yesterday; that’s how distracted i’ve been 😕 But this article struck me as […]

You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math? Andi only got the mode, median one wrong; i guessed it 🙂

This made me laugh. A long, long time ago, when my sister and i were 14 and 10 respectively, we went on a holiday around Europe. It was a pretty amazing holiday in lots of ways, in 3 weeks we thoroughly visited 5 countries; Holland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Germany. We may even have done […]

She can make a cup of tea. And a very good one at that. Hurrah! 😆

I started putting my beads on to the site last night, but i’m so cross with the pictures that i’d done and how crappy they look, that i’ve started doing them again. Do you think this looks reasonable decent for a website?

I give you my sister at her most eloquent. Goddammit, i used to have time to write blogposts like that 🙂

You Are Karamel Sutra Plain on the outside, but once someone gets in, they’re stuck What Flavor Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Are You? Alarmed or amused? 😆

Thursday was our 2 inches of snow day; persuaded the children to wait until the promised afternoon blizzard, on the basis that it would give them that extra bit to have fun with but it never arrived. They went out anyway, with Emma assisting them ably (i hate being out in snow, too cold, too […]

6ft of snow. Feel free to make a fuss. That’s a LOT of snow. I liked the BBC news little irreverent weekly round up about yesterdays coverage. he summed up with “we are a small island, just sound of the artic circle, with the atlantic to one side of us. It’s February. It snows. Get […]