Category: Blogging
Saturday Snippets 11 October 2014
{thinking} that the weeks seem to fly by more and more quickly. Doesn’t seem two minutes since I was writing out the last snippets post. {reading} Endgame: The Calling. (partial) review with giveaway to go up tomorrow. Make sure you hurry back. {watching} Tron: Legacy (via Amazon Prime) and really rather regretting it. I usually…
Why Clacton gives me hope.
Yesterday there was a by election in Clacton, and UKIP won its first MP, Douglas Carswell who had previously held the seat for the Conservatives, and who triggered the by election by standing down when he defected to UKIP. No, it’s not the fact that UKIP has an MP that gives me hope. That makes…
Doctor Who, the moon and home education.
Unlike my normal posts, this is not spoiler free. So if you’ve not yet seen the Doctor Who episode The dark side of the moon with Peter Capaldi and you want to without knowing the story, I suggest you click away now. Still here? Good. The moon. Image is from public domain images And the…
Saturday Snippets 4 October 2014
{watching} Red 2. Great film. High body count, so not one for the teenies, the wisecracking is brilliant, and Helen Mirren is just excellent with a machine gun. And a knife. And acid. And her feet. 😉 {reading} this one is a bit more difficult. I seem to have about six books on the go,…
A walk in the woods
Yesterday we were looking for signs of season change in the garden. Today we took The Gruffalo Nature Trail book and our new nature bags, and went to the woods to look for more. I like our little local woods. Little is the operative word sadly. Apparently Suffolk has only 7% forest cover, less than…
Saturday Snippets 27 September 2014
{watching} Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (Amazon). Arrived for review this morning, and was absolutely perfect for a trimmed down #familyfilmnight with just the younger two. And I enjoyed it, which was a bonus, although a film featuring Sir Patrick Stewart as a tree is always going to stand a chance with me 😉 Unlike…
Saturday snippets 20 September 2014
{enjoying} a day out in London. Without children. Talking about books (new book from Lucinda Riley who remembers my review of Midnight Rose), and then having coffee with a friend. (Yes, me, having coffee, with a real live friend.) {reading} Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life. Which I’m in…
What makes a good PR event?
Today I took the two smaller children into London. I got up at 6, so that I could double check travel arrangements, slightly nervous as I couldn’t find a route without a bus part of the way. We were heading to Surrey Docks Farm to visit the Huggies Pullups bus. The farm is a community…
Saturday Snippets 13 September 2014
{counting} 10k steps. First time I’ve worn my fitbug all day in ages, and cruised through the 10k. Running my mile this morning helped. (In 09.47, which is a pretty good place to be starting from for my aim of running a 10k in under an hour.) {drawing} eyes. Feeling quite pleased with my drawing…
Saturday snippets 6 September 2014
{watching} Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Big hit with all the family except Tim, who really has seen it all before. Though even he wants a set of Falcon wings for Christmas. And who wouldn’t? With a body count rather higher than an Arnie film, I was quite pleased the little ones were playing Reading…
