Monthly Archives: May 2007

Noooo!!!!

HIT show Doctor Who will be EXTERMINATED next year — after the fourth series.
Sniffle.
 

Just Taking

I am really not very keen on Just Giving. This is why:-
JG “charges a small transaction fee on every donation made on the Website. The fee is currently 5% of the gross donation, which is the donation plus any Gift Aid reclaimed.”
When you pay via Just Giving, not only does the charity have to fork [...]

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Today, Small was supposed to be spending a special day in Halifax with Ailsa, but yesterday he decided to do horrid and smelly things, so instead I worked from home and kept them with me.
This meant that he was able to have his presents on his birthday. He got Lego (to go with the [...]

Life saving vessel

The traditional way of making tea in a pot is healthier than dunking a bag in a cup, according to scientists.

Would someone please explain

what social skills you are supposed to learn from going to school? How come you need to go to nursery to learn how to go to school? Doesn’t any of this strike any member of the public as just a touch on the ridiculous side? Try the answers to this grauniad question [...]

Go to hell, do not pass go,….

“Ninety-five per cent of Britons are heading for hell, according to the principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, who has been under fire from some staff for taking one of the leading Anglican theological training colleges in a conservative direction.
Richard Turnbull, appointed two years ago, made the claim in a speech to the annual conference of [...]

The movie of my life

The Movie Of Your Life Is An Indie Flick

You do things your own way – and it’s made for colorful times.
Your life hasn’t turned out how anyone expected, thank goodness!
Your best movie matches: Clerks, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

What time on a Sunday?

It’s cold, wet and horrid here, so I’m really looking forward to it’s a knockout Don’t think the rest of the family will be coming now, it’s a bit much to ask them to drive an hour up the road to hang around in the rain for two hours while I get [...]

Book reviews and Bones

We had lunch. Then I moped a bit, Tim built (or rebuilt) part of the fence (which departed one very windy day some months ago) and I finally wranged the children into clothes and we went shopping. We bought wood stain and screws, and Small tried to half kill himself by hiding round [...]

quotes

“It’s not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand.”
Name the film?
Blog isn’t about that though, that’s just the quote that springs to mind once a month when I’m hoping that my period won’t start. And then it does. Hohum. Going to make the whole charging [...]

what planet are you from

seen this around various places, quite enjoyed my results actually

You Are From Neptune

You are dreamy and mystical, with a natural psychic ability.
You love music, poetry, dance, and (most of all) the open sea.
Your soul is filled with possibilities, and your heart overflows with compassion.
You can be in a room full of friendly people [...]

Jax broke it, Miss.

Problem report summary
Problem type Windows stop error (a message appears on a blue screen with error code information)
Solution available? No
What does this problem mean? Windows has encountered a problem it cannot recover from and it needs to be restarted
Cause Unknown
Computer symptoms A message appears on a blue screen with error code information (for example: [...]

Nearly forgot

on Sunday, to celebrate Tim’s birthday, we shall be in a field in Halifax. Tim will be pointing and laughing and catching photographic evidence, of me making a complete fool of myself in charity It’s a Knockout. If any of you fancy sponsoring me, please use this contact form to send me [...]

Thinking Blogger Award.

Tagged by Gill, thanks
The official rules for participation in the Thinking Blogger Awards meme are as follows:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme
3. Optional: [...]

Four years on

I missed my blogiversary yesterday, busy living life (and watching Criminal Minds ). It’s been a hectic four years. At that point, I had one child, a bump and a job at a bank. Then came the second child, redundancy, own business. Home education started properly, and then another [...]

Have you seen this elf?

"Two years for elf lingerie thief (BBC) A man who claimed he thought he was a female elf when he stole underwear from a Belfast shop at knifepoint, has been jailed for two years."

In case you were wondering

an update from Andrea about their free homeschool blog service.
“HSJ is backed up, new space is purchased and I’m waiting for the account creation. It’s on a Virtual Private Server, so it takes a little more to set up. If you coudl pass the word on your non-HSJ hosted blogs, that’d be great. (I am [...]

Sloppy arguments.

Link followed link and somehow I ended up in a pdf from Peta which stated:
No species naturally drinks milk beyond the age of weaning, and no species would naturally drink the milk of a different species. For humans, drinking cow’s milk has been linked to heart disease, some types of cancer, diabetes, and even osteoporosis, [...]

New blurb

I’ve just updated the blurb on the ring hub page to read:
A warm welcome to the Early Years HE blog ring, a ring linking blogs of home educating families with a strong connection to the UK, (usually members of the Early years HE yahoo group). As we’ve been running for quite some time now, [...]

Busy weekend.

Despite working until half past midnight I still managed to get up at a halfway reasonable time yesterday. I can’t actually remember what I did with the day – think it may mainly have involved doing washing and feeling sorry for myself, but at least I didn’t spend it all in bed. I [...]