Monthly Archives: January 2006

Carnival of Homeschooling – PalmTree Pundit Welcome to the 5th Carnival of Homeschooling. Since I’m hosting this carnival here in the beautiful state of Hawaii, I thought we’d enjoy going through the entries at the beach. Grab your swimsuit, a … Continue reading →

One For Kris

Especially for anyone who is worried that their children play too much – they probably don’t. Failing to teach them how to handle real life – Sunday Times – Times Online

and now the children are gone for the afternoon In case you’re wondering what I’m doing blogging in the middle of a Monday, I’m off work feeling kind of sorry for myself, and for once, not at all guilty. There’s … Continue reading →

is Feedburner. If for no other reason than I get to stare at another stats page Actually, it’s more than that. Feedburner allows you to do nifty things with your rss feed, routing all current consumers through it (if you … Continue reading →

Climate Challenge – The Climate Challenge Fund Save the world and promote home education all at once A few catches, you’ve got to be between 10 and 18 on 31 March this year and you have to be resident in … Continue reading →

It’s been a long day. I’m not quite sure what’s wrong with me, I feel lightheaded, tired, and headachy, but nothing particularly concrete to say I’m ill. But I went to bed at 6pm for a lie-down last night, and … Continue reading →

You Passed 8th Grade Science Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Science? From Helen, via Deb And rofl: You Failed the US Citizenship Test Oops, you only got 3 out of 10 right! Could You Pass … Continue reading →

Given that I’m already getting hits for Hesfes 2006, thought I’d better point out that the information is out there, the website is updated and the mystery of the new location has finally been revealed. Surprised to discover that I’m … Continue reading →

BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet serves as ‘social glue’ But the report, entitled The Strength of Internet Ties, found that e-mail supplements rather than replaces offline communications. Funnily enough, this fits in nicely with what I’d been planning to … Continue reading →

apart from the screaming That would be Small. He didn’t want to go to bed last night off the path as it was all too exciting, and tonight he was just too tired, so when he woke up getting out … Continue reading →

A pealing tale

lying in the dentist’s chair this afternoon, did I distract myself with images of a quiet country day, a peaceful seaside walk or time with my family or friends? No. I started composing a blogpost about it all. I think … Continue reading →

You come downstairs from an exhausting bedtime routine and think, oh good, the washing’s finished already. Then you realise that it hasn’t, *someone* has pressed rinsehold and it’s just sitting there soaking wet…

Attempting to catch him for his bath tonight, I said, “Small, am I going to carry you upstairs by your feet?” “No!” “Oh, are you going to walk then?” “No! Run…..” and off he went, demonstrating Once I’d got him … Continue reading →

How evil are you? Sorry and all that though…

That he set aside a time of half an hour each week when he actually listens to what I say… Big’s suggestion is that he listen to me all the time…think I like her idea better! eta – yes, he … Continue reading →

Took some doing, but I finally located “Family Circle” Easy Sweaters: 50 Knit and Crochet Projects and returned it to the library this morning. It only cost £5.26 in fines , all the more annoying as I neither created anything … Continue reading →