but had to blog for posterity. Tonight soa giggled for the first time. Baby laughter is so very wonderful
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Category Archives: It's where it is
Missing in action.
Thu Mar 18 2010 – 23:53
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 with, but there’s really only one who counts.
If I tried hard enough, I could probably find [...]
the answer is no
Thu Mar 18 2010 – 1:36
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 in a chair by your foot, or you pick her up and sit her on [...]
Having fun with wordle
Mon Mar 15 2010 – 15:23
Thinking about opening a spreadshirt or cafepress store so I can print up some T shirts
Another half week races by
Sat Mar 13 2010 – 14:22
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, who has just moved to same town as us, made it just at [...]
My Kind Of Town
Sat Mar 13 2010 – 1:03
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
Fri Mar 12 2010 – 23:06
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.
If I choose to wear a burka, that is my business. Yes, I am male, so people [...]
Who are your friends?
Thu Mar 11 2010 – 1:26
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 two parents through Brownies and swimming since we’ve moved here that we’ve spent time with [...]
History on our bookshelf.
Tue Mar 9 2010 – 16:08
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 veg and rice) I noticed an elderly looking book on the bookshelf.
[For anyone relatively new [...]
one handed blogging.
Mon Mar 8 2010 – 18:08
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 were out of her reach. Am loving watching her figure things out.
Big and I have been [...]
library and lapbooking
Sat Mar 6 2010 – 1:21
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 the library are mutually exclusive concepts where we’re concerned, but we did manage to leave [...]
I’m in two minds whether to blog this one….
Fri Mar 5 2010 – 13:20
‘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.
Thu Mar 4 2010 – 20:04
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 is not a quote from a home educating blogger, this is a mainstream journalist. He says [...]
Where *do* the days go?
Thu Mar 4 2010 – 17:27
I think I forgot to mention last week that we made it to the opticians and Big has near perfect vision with a hint of long sightedness while Small is slightly more long sighted but not enough to do anything about it as he isn’t reporting any problems. So that was good. Oh, and soa [...]
Saving money on a science-y Saturday.
Sun Feb 28 2010 – 16:54
Started the day by saving £15 a month for the next year I’d ordered a new O2 sim through TopCashBack who were offering £100 on 12 month sim only deals for that week. It finally arrived so I rang up to get a PAC from T-mobile, who instead offered me a £5 a [...]
Let’s see…
Sun Feb 28 2010 – 0:05
there’s been loads happening here this week.
Monday is Beavers, can’t remember what went on before it. Kids are going through another phase of long involved imaginative games in their bedroom and then today, the garden, which I do love to see.
Tuesday may have been the day they rediscovered tutpup. It was also swimming lesson day, [...]
My complaint to the BBC
Thu Feb 25 2010 – 18:44
It’s short, but hopefully to the point.
This case is being reported as a child withdrawn from school to be home educated and then being starved to death. Factually this is inaccurate – Khyra Ishaq was withdrawn in December, but no attempt was made to deregister her for months – this is not home education, this [...]
My child matters.
Mon Feb 22 2010 – 13:04
To me.
That’s the way it’s supposed to be. I have a rough idea of what a child can do at each stage of their life, and that’s enough. I also know my children well enough to know when I can worry – Small was so very capable at nearly 2 that his lack of [...]
Sunday morning coming down.
Sun Feb 21 2010 – 18:13
Been a while since those lyrics came close to applying
Quiet day. Not sure how many times soa fed during the night – I did look at the clock at 9.08 and think ooh, I’ll just have another 5 minutes as she’s dozed off again, and the next time I woke up it was [...]
