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  • Double standards

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    Think about it, you go on about how five is much too young for starting kids’ education and sending them off to school but as soon as yours can close their hand round a wooden block you’re off on the autonomous, child centred, child led…..

  • Crocheting Chaos

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    Fascinating

  • What would you like for dinner?

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    “You can have some chicken or there are two bits of pizza that Big has refused to eat” Umm. Tough choice that. Shall I have something I like or shall I have something the kids can’t stomach?

  • The Awards Are Out

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    “I could not fail to disagree with you less.” Boris Johnson wins The Foot in Mouth award in the Plain English campaign Awards Next will be the Muddle Puddle Webring Awards …

  • Save Lives

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    “Cutting school run ‘saves lives’. Insurer More Than says staggering school times could cut deaths Reducing the number of children being driven to school would save hundreds of lives on the roads, a study says.” Hmm, anyone for home ed?

  • Laundry Rug

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    I reckon we need one of these

  • Top Ten Excuses

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    With apologies to Jonathan who has been at work today and who has therefore spent the morning reading The Register “The Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership, aka “Safe speed for life” has just published its top 10 excuses for geting nobbled by a speed, sorry, safety camera.” I had passed out after seeing flashing lights, which…

  • Let's all do a bloody quiz.

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    George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four. You are the classic warning against the threat of totalitarianism. To you, politics and philosophy are inseparable, auchtorities suck and the reality might not exist outside our imaginations. Which literature classic are you? brought to you by Quizilla  

  • Little Red Rooster

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    You are a rooster! No, don’t get me wrong! Every one simply LOVES you. You seem to know just what everyone likes. Happiness can be found anywhere for you! What Celtic Bird Are You? brought to you by Quizilla  

  • Excellent!

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    Someone should show Gordon Brown how you are supposed to add trend lines to graphs. I have a bad feeling that he approaches financial forecasting for the country with the same naïve optimism that I approach my own.