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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Pirate Day
We went to pirate day. Tim broke his camera and had to use mine. This means way more pictures than usual Actually we went on Friday, and helped to do things. This was good. We stayed up way too late, … Continue reading
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BBC NEWS | UK | Weak teachers ‘put off pupils’
BBC NEWS | UK | Weak teachers ‘put off pupils’ Ms Gilbert said teaching rated as “satisfactory” was not good enough, especially in deprived areas. Definition of the word satisfactory from the OED: “4. a. Sufficient for the needs of … Continue reading
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Pants
A man who chose “Lloyds is pants” as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to “no it’s not” BBC :rofl:
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Roll of thunder, hear my cry.
Found a copy of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Teenage Fiction) in my pile of books in the dining room and swiped it to see as and when if would be suitable for Big to read. Hadn’t read … Continue reading
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BBC NEWS | Health | Warning of epilepsy drowning risk
BBC NEWS | Health | Warning of epilepsy drowning risk People with epilepsy are up to 19 times more likely to drown than those in the general population, research suggests. A University College London review of 51 studies from around … Continue reading
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Crafts for children – playing with squidoo again.
Crafts for children I used to home educate my two children, and we did it without curriculum. For young children they can learn huge amounts from doing crafts that no so very long ago were a way of life. Merry’s … Continue reading
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Little Birdie Secrets: it’s a cinch! easy bags for back to school
Little Birdie Secrets: it’s a cinch! easy bags for back to school Technically back-to-school week ended Friday, but we’ve decided to give you some extra-credit homework! And even for those of you who aren’t going back to school (a shrinking … Continue reading
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Drifting along.
Quite worrying that before I post I have to read the last post to work out what we’ve been doing… I can’t actually remember Saturday terribly well. Ah yes. Big made her first purse out of the wool we’d bought … Continue reading
Posted in Big, It's life Jim, Making things, Small steps, family
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Mercenary offspring.
Small wants to get in on the current earning money challenge – he’s drawing pictures to sell. This is quite a step away from his standard approach of drawing them and giving them to anyone who expresses interest! I think … Continue reading
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Boom
I have just got back from watching the Tinsley Towers, the two large cooling towers by the side of the elevated section of the M1 in Sheffield, being demolished. Tinsley Towers 3am No Tinsley Towers 3:01am The first time I … Continue reading
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BBC NEWS | Magazine | Putting percentages in context
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Putting percentages in context Percentages might make news stories stand out, but without a connection to the human experience, can become meaningless. Wouldnt it be good to have the mental agility to separate the wheat … Continue reading
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ID contractor denounced over data loss | Politics | The Guardian
ID contractor denounced over data loss | Politics | The Guardian The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, yesterday denounced the consultancy firm involved in the development of the ID cards scheme for “completely unacceptable” practice after losing a memory stick containing … Continue reading
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lessons in life
Today I found the right motivation to teach Small some more maths. I informed him that if he could count his own money out of the pile, he could have the same pocket money at Big gets (£1 a week) … Continue reading
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Decisions, decisions.
I went down to old house yesterday and did some more clearing – brought back yet more stuff to litter this house with Actually, I am hoping to be offloading some stuff that we don’t want any more, but I’ll … Continue reading
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Caption Competition
I was just looking through the Beans Flickr. I found a picture of a woman tied to a dog. Caption Submissions in a comments box please
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Missed
A couple of posts elsewhere have made me think of some things which I missed, when I had the chance – that is to say, places I didn’t visit, things I didn’t do, when I lived right next to them. … Continue reading
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Heard Today
Jax: “Small, I can’t look up the shop online, not all shops are online.” Just wonder when the first parent had to explain that.
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BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Concern over age bands for books
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Concern over age bands for books In the normally sedate gardens of the Edinburgh Book Festival, it is causing quite a furore. From this autumn, a number of publishing houses … Continue reading
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