Monthly Archives: January 2005

Took ages to get Small to go to bed – nearly midnight before he passed out. He was very cute throughout, which was endearing and annoying all at once – particularly like the drawing me pictures and coming over to … Continue reading →

Struggling to get myself motivated today, not helped by Tim having to retire to bed with flu and grumpy children. Quite surprised that we’ve managed to be educational in and amongst the grumps – Big and I played mancala online … Continue reading →

So am I justified in being in a bad mood, when I go to the trouble of making a mancala game out of cardboard and coins, and Big then beats me two out of three while having to be reminded … Continue reading →

Beware, way tmi follows. If I could pick any week to go to Centerparcs, I’d try to avoid my period, and any chance of the children being ill. No? I guess not then. On Monday, Small had a very horrid … Continue reading →

just So not going to blog – just apologise that I haven’t been round and reset everyone, ‘cos I haven’t sorted out my puter yet, and can’t remember the password to get at the ring! See you in the morning.

At our site you can have all of your electronic documents blessed with a blessing of your own choice, using our Holy Server. Hmm.

it’s been a long day. I seriously considered not bothering going to swimming this morning, but Big was adamant she wanted to, even after I explained the timetable in detail. Maybe she doesn’t get tight timescales though – I’m fairly … Continue reading →

and it’s going to be few and far between for a little while. Yesterday, Sarah came over with Dino and brought lunch – you can read all about it here. She does neglect to say that we spent most of … Continue reading →

Apparently, they are looking for a new Bond. The front runner is Huge Jack, man. Or someone like that. Over at Movie Gazette , I am runnng a poll and my personal favourite for the role is doing very well, … Continue reading →

BBC NEWS | Education | Head scraps homework ‘dinosaur’ “Its website says that in its pilot phase, children who followed the alternative curriculum in Year Seven performed “significantly better” in national maths and English tests than those who followed a … Continue reading →

Big came up with a great question on the way back from ballet. She was given a Sea Monkeys set for her birthday, and she’s desperate to get it started, although I’ve said it would be better to wait until … Continue reading →

Started the day with shopping – made a trip to our local retail park and managed to acquire suit and shirt at TKMaxx, suit at £49.99, bargain! Unfortunately size 14, and I seem to be on my way down out … Continue reading →

According to The Register “Scientists at Okayama University in Japan have rather agreeably discovered that unidentified compounds in lager and stout may help to prevent DNA damage leading to cancer.” Yayyy!!!!

Primelocation Anyone got a spare million or so to set up a cohousing intentional community then?

Was that a pile of tosh or what? Leading questions (we’re going to dress you up as a dad – now how do you behave?), odd interpretations of results (when Big plays mummy and daddy she is manifestly not pretending … Continue reading →

last night, to blog. Was chatting with Kris and somehow we got onto the topic of intentional communities – I went for a wander around all sorts of websites [Edited to add link for Claire] I’d never seen before! I … Continue reading →

Essential wear for ring bearers, I would have thought. A serious history link too, a digitisation of the history of ‘merry’ London costerfolk from the 19th Century.