Category: Blogging
Saturday snippets 06 June 2015
{reading} Mercedes Lackey From a High Tower (Elemental Masters). I do love this kind of fantasy, and it’s been a while since I’ve read one. Ripping yarn, nice bit of magic, fun characters. What’s not to like? {eating} a weird mix of various leftover stuff from the fridge and the freezer. Trying to clear out…
Saturday snippets 23 May 2015
{Sleeping} All the wrong way round. I stayed up very late wrestling with the sewing machine trying to finish a second dress for Big’s 1920s reenactment. I didn’t quite manage it 🙁 she’s only got the bias binding around the neck and one sleeve so hopefully she can finish it off herself. Then I got…
Saturday snippets 16 May 2015
{getting up} far far too early. Big had a cadet day which required her to be in the next town, after her paper round, for 8.15. Which was going to be tight. And so of course I woke up at 6, did that horrible flail oh no I’ve slept in, and then realised that actually…
Saturday snippets 9 may 2015
In pictures, because I’m tired! Doodling. Little feet. Sunset Kettle. I’ll add the snapshots when we get home 🙂
Welfare reform: the moral and practical case for basic income.
In the run up to this general election, there’s been a lot of time spent debating welfare, welfare reform, spending and so on. The received wisdom is that benefits need to be cut/ capped/ people must work, either for their benefits (workfare) or in paid apprenticeships. So we have sanctions, where if you don’t comply…
Saturday snippets 2 May 2015
{Watching} Aladdin with the younger children (well OK, with Smallest, as Tigerboy fell asleep almost instantly, which made for a wonderful bedtime later). Then When Harry met Sally with Big because we can’t watch it with Small around and he’s off at Kentwell with Tim. {Reading} A God in ruins. Which I started a while…
Saturday snippets 25 April 2015
{watching} Annie for family film night. It’s Smallest’s new favourite film – full review from her on Monday, along with the video from the wonderful workshop we attended. Evenings are Once upon a Time, we’re on Season 4 and starting to panic slightly about what we’re going to watch next. {reading} Lots of phonic readers,…
Saturday snippets 18 April 2015
{watching} swimming rather than a film. Not that I could see all that much of the swimming from my corner seat in the cafe. But it was enough to be there I hope. (Big reminded me that the first time she did Swimathon, 4 years ago, I cried.) {reading} Summer Secrets, the new Jane Green.…
Saturday snippets 11 April 2015
{watching} Meet the Robinsons on netflix for familyfilmnight. Carefully chosen in the hope that Smallest would enjoy it, as for some reason she’s very anti family films at the moment. It worked. And the bonus was that the rest of us quite enjoyed it too, despite the painfully obvious plot holes. {reading} From Here to…
Saturday snippets 4 April 2015
{watching} The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet on netflix. Gentle story of a young boy travelling to find himself (and incidentally his family). It entertained everyone but Tigerboy (Smallest insisted that she didn’t enjoy it, but she sat completely enraptured throughout, so I’m claiming a win). Watch out for an excellent and understated performance by…
