Author: Jax Blunt
A day with a distinct lack of fairies.
I don’t quite know where today went. I seem to have had one of those days when you run very fast, and get nowhere? There’s the usual – feeding people, housework bits, feeding cats (only one cat, but he bleats so much he seems like more than one), popping to the shops for more milk,…
Getting Christmas crafty – no 1 peg doll fairies.
So, last night I had plans – how did it all pan out? Well, we did some of it 🙂 I started the day with my physio mandated exercises. Then I did a bit of crying when my shoulder went into spasm 🙁 I’d been gentle, honest, but obviously not gentle enough. Pulled myself together…
That Christmas countdown
It’s been a pretty low key advent here so far, mainly due to my inability to stay upright and awake for an entire day at a time. But I’m going to try to chuck in a few more activities, to get the children in the mood hopefully without sending them into orbit. (It’s a fine…
Sleepy Sunday
I don’t know what is going on with me at the moment – basically all I want to do is sleep. Or lie in a warm comfortable bed at least, dozing gently. My joints ache rather than hurting while I’m in bed. Today while I’ve been up, despite maxing out the painkillers, and doing my…
Saturday snippets 10 December 2016
disclosure: links to places you can buy stuff are probably affiliate links, unless I’ve been unable to sign up with the seller. I make pennies. It costs you nothing. {not reading} lots of books. I currently have on the go On Writing by A.L.Kennedy (amazon affiliate link, as all amazon links are, The Earth Path…
A paw patrol fail.
Tigerboy and I have had an oddly unsuccessful day. After a lot of warnings, he lost WiiU privileges after leaving the game pad on the sofa yet again. (About two minutes after I’d specifically told him to put it back on the cradle at that.) This left him at a loose end for the afternoon.…
Oh, baubles!
It appears that after a good day, we have to have a crash. And today I crashed quite spectacularly, late afternoon, after receiving the news that I haven’t been shortlisted for the WriteNowLive program. The odds weren’t in my favour – we were trimmed from over 2000 to 150, seen in three groups of 50.…
Happy birthday to me, or a day in the life.
I’ve had a very low key day, which has been extremely pleasant. I got up to make Big packed lunch, but she said she already had it in hand, so I went back to bed. At the moment the level of pain I’ve got from left shoulder and hip is tiring me out, and the…
Cover reveal: Domina from L S Hilton
Everything you thought you knew about Maestra… You don’t. Publishing with Bonnier Zaffre, March 23rd 2017. I admit I’m intrigued. If you are too, you can pre-order at amazon here (affiliate) If, like me, you’re behind the loop on this one, you might want to look up Maestra: WHERE DO YOU GO WHEN YOU’VE GONE…
Contemplating home education styles, with a Teach My Preschooler kit review.
When you mention home education to people one of the first questions (usually right after ‘but how will they make friends?’) is how will they learn to read? Or do maths? The answer to that is all sorts of different ways, to be honest. Some children just seem to acquire reading in the same way…
