Category: Blogging
School for 45 weeks? You're having a laugh.
So last week I had a rare night out, and on the way home on the train, I spotted discussion of a proposal to extend school times to 45 hours a week, 45 weeks a year. I assumed this was a joke. Amazingly, it isn’t. I bought the Sun a couple of days later (for…
Saturday snippets 1 February 2014
Yes, yes, I know it’s Sunday. I was just so tired last night that I fell into bed without writing these up, but if I don’t, I’ll have a hole and that would be bad. So {wondering} where the day went. {finally} actually taking the decluttered mugs to charity. {playing} briefly outside, then warming up…
Saturday snippets 25 January 2014
{Talking} wool, linen and layers at the first costume day of the year. I’m actually quite excited that I’m going to be getting some new clothes. And even better news, the blanket I picked up at the red cross is decent quality for my new coat 🙂 {Driving} through a pretty terrifying storm. Went from…
Saturday snippets 18 January 2014
{Travelling} mainly by train. With two small children and no backup. And while I managed to lose Tigerboy’s water bottle, that was our biggest disaster of what was a very lovely day. {discovering} anew that Smallest is a very lovely little girl. She was amazingly well behaved throughout what was a very long day. She…
Basic income – a solution to welfare?
If you follow me on twitter, you may have caught me sharing posts about Basic income over the last couple of days. Most notably a petition to the European Union which closes today. The petition is to investigate basic income, not to actual start it, but it’s the first step, and one that I increasingly…
Saturday Snippets 11 January 2014
{celebrating} getting the year right in the title 😉 {reading} The Geography of You and me. Just perfect for what I needed last night and this morning. {watching} Paul. Alien film. (Very) bad language, but integral to the film, rather than being gratuitous. Not sure that that actually improved my tolerance of it. Not a…
