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Monthly Archives: January 2009
That home ed review.
Have you written to your mp yet? If not, you can use this site, Write to them, it will tell you who your MP is and give you a nice little form to do it. There are template letters on … Continue reading
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Family film evening
A little package arrived this morning, containing Harry Potter Years 1-5 Box Set. The children were very excited. We had a look at the first film, hoping to plan a film evening, and discovered it’s 147 minutes long, so the … Continue reading
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MOSI
After getting myself into a bit of a state last night about the planned journey today, it all went off remarkably well. Three trains there, three trains back. No sprints across unknown stations losing small children, successful purchase of ff … Continue reading
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Quick recap Weds
Realised I didn’t actually blog yesterday, just did a spot of ranting. Ah well. Not sure what I really did yesterday – I felt really wiped out for most of the day for no apparent reason. I did spend quality … Continue reading
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Waste of money
We have just received through the post four separate envelopes, each containing three pages (printed on each side at least) about “the development of a New Health Centre” in town. I’ve yet to work out what is wrong with the … Continue reading
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Geology, black bags and backward names.
We went off to school to pick up the car and timed it so that the kids at school were just finished lunch so that Big and Small could have running around time. It went well – I kept a … Continue reading
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A Harry Potter household.
We travelled back from edge-of-country house to middle-of-country house much later than hoped for yesterday afternoon, given complete waffling around rather than rapid packing yesterday morning. We were accompanied by the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry again, and arrived home … Continue reading
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Just shoot me now
Spurred by Helen’s complaint to her MP and anyone else she could fire it at, I thought I’d tootle along to my friendly Lib Deb website, look up the education spokesperson and see if I could get their opinion on … Continue reading
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Home education consultation.
From the econsultation website: Email Alerts We are experiencing problems with the email alert functionality on this website. If you have requested to be alerted when consultations, or results of consultations, for which you have registered an interest, are published, … Continue reading
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Sunday swimming
Another lovely lie in, although I awoke to perfectly horrid weather, rain lashing down and winds howling or something to that effect. Certainly not a day for walking to libraries or swimming pools, and the birdwatch was a bit of … Continue reading
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If you want to be scared
it would probably be wise to know what to be scared of. I first started writing this back in November and never finished it. I thought that it may be time to publish it though, given that I spent a … Continue reading
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This is a good one.
Garden Organic outraged at plans to charge schools and community groups for composting I am frequently very annoyed that homes are practically blackmailed into recycling, sorting out waste, composting and all the rest, and you go to work or school, … Continue reading
A weekend.
We left CP and headed for the edge of the country, with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Stephen Fry of course, keeping us company. We stopped briefly at a Tescos for lunch – unimpressive, but I bet … Continue reading
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The second half
I can’t really remember where I’d got up to. Think Weds we did two swims, one morning, one evening. Which probably means that I went with at least two children on Weds morning, and then most ppl went Weds evening. … Continue reading
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CP Pool
The pool is the whole point of the place after all. ED: And we have grey squrrels fighting on our roof. Well, I think they are fighting.
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Things other ppl forgot to tell me.
Got a voicemail from D, stepfather yesterday. Apparently it’s the coroner’s inquest for my sister today, which obviously I can’t go to as I’m in CP, but various other family members are going to. Felt very excluded and emotional for … Continue reading
Things I forgot to mention
the swans who appeared at the chalet window last night at cake time, think they wanted to join in. Couldn’t get a decent picture as the flash kept reflecting off the window though The fact we have free wireless broadband. … Continue reading
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Harry Potter and swimming.
Despite heckling and all the rest of it, I did go to bed positively early last night. I then laid there for hours listening to a computer rebooting itself with monotonous regularity and eventually got disturbed by Tim coming to … Continue reading
A bit of decluttering.
There has been a heap of stuff in the kitchen here since shortly after we moved in. I’m not quite sure how it started, things have been taken away and other things added, but it was unnecessary, and today I … Continue reading
