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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Email strewing.
We have drifted away from our structured pattern of work at the moment, which makes me slightly nervous, but I’ll explore than in another post very soon. (Maybe even today if baby continues to be surprisingly happy to be other … Continue reading
a crisis of confidence
When I first started this blog, it was to keep in touch with remote friends. Lots of us started blogs around the same time, some of us are even still blogging My concern for safety and privacy for my children … Continue reading
Writing Workshop #18 – Secret Dreams of Letting go?
Prompt no 3. What do you secretly dream of your children doing? I don’t know that this is so secret, so I’m going to keep this short and move on to prompt 4. I dream that my children will be … Continue reading
Shape Of Things To Come
Scientists from Rand Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look in the year 2004. However, the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the … Continue reading
I think I know why babies get weaned around 4 months…
The last 48 hours soa has been continuously hungry. She was peaceful and easy on Sunday, but then Sunday night morphed into a starveling who needed both breasts every two hours. Yesterday I was a pale shadow of myself – … Continue reading
achievements, oddments and spring sunshine.
Let’s dwell on the positive for a change – after all, it’s Spring and the sun is shining. Yesterday we had friends round and I planted out our bluebells and my rose. (This is the rose that I was sent … Continue reading
on my way to bed
but had to blog for posterity. Tonight soa giggled for the first time. Baby laughter is so very wonderful
Missing in action.
Inspired by the writing workshop, prompt 1, on Sleep is for the weak. I’ve been trying to find the time to sit down and write this for a couple of days now. I thought about various ppl I’ve lost touch … Continue reading
the answer is no
stirring a sprinkle of flour into the cheese sauce won’t make it thicker. Unless lumps qualify as thick. But in my defense, m’lud, it is very difficult to make a good roux sauce when you have either a screaming baby … Continue reading
Forgot all about this
Having fun with wordle
Another half week races by
and we’ve spent at least part of it making friends Music Weds, and there was a new family, with a boy about Small’s age. They sat down together and ever so solemnly discussed making friends, it was cute. And C, … Continue reading
My Kind Of Town
Officials in Pecica, a village town about 13 miles from the Hungarian border in the country’s west, ordered the bright red signs, complete with the phrase “Attention – Drunks”.
The Right of A True-Born Englishman
MP calls for burkas to be banned in Britain An MP has called for ministers to ban the wearing of burkas, branding it ”offensive” and ”against the British way of life”. Dear Mr Holloborne, how I dress is my business. … Continue reading
Who are your friends?
Take a look around at your nearest and dearest friends. What do you have in common with them? Probably some interests that drew you together. Perhaps you are neighbours. Maybe you met them via your children’s interests – I’ve met … Continue reading
History on our bookshelf.
Yesterday I mentioned making Lord Woolton’s pie, working from a recipe in Wartime Cookbook that we got out of the library. Then last night when I was preparing tea (nothing exciting, chinese chicken bits from the coop with stir fry … Continue reading
one handed blogging.
last post was about Friday. Since then: soa rolled over twice during a nappy change, and is becoming increasingly mobile on the floor. She also managed to wriggle herself around in the cot and pick up toys that I thought … Continue reading
library and lapbooking
Most of the day got away from me today, but somehow I managed to retrieve the latter part of the afternoon and we headed out for fruit and to pop to the library. I should have known that popping and … Continue reading
I’m in two minds whether to blog this one….
‘cos I want to win it! Sunnymama has yet another fab giveaway, this time a lactivist Mummy milk rocks Tshirt or bag. That T shirt would look fabulous on soa, don’t you agree?
There are some journalists left.
Forget about the issue of home education. That is just a smokescreen designed to cover another calamitous failure by a social services department already under government special measures because its protection of vulnerable children is deemed inadequate. For once this … Continue reading
