Category: Collaborative
on the fourth day of Christmas
we chilled. And we opened our first family Christmas present, which turned out to be a fabulous selection of books and bits. It included To Kill A Mockingbird which is one of my all time favourite books. Can’t quite decide whether Big is ready to read it – I think it was probably second year…
Book blogging/ reading/ reviewing challenge.
During our week away I’ve been thinking lots more about my blog for good challenge. I’m intending to donate from any blog related income – I’ll do that as and when I actually receive anything! The Santa Run for EACH is next weekend. My costume is here, waiting for me to put it on, and…
Boggle Flash review
As I’ve discussed several times before, my main aim in education is to get out of the way and let my kids get on with it. Having said that, I’m not above a bit of strewing, particularly with educational games, and so when an offer of Boggle Flash to review came in, I couldn’t resist.…
E72 – how I miss thee.
My trial E72 from @WomWorldNokia went back on Friday. In fact, both of them did. Because I ended up with two – the first one that was sent displayed odd behaviour when typing in a browser – it flipped the first two characters around. This is not a known bug apparently, and was thought that…
Babysitting Mama competition
We were watching TV the other day when an advert came on for the new Babysitting Mama game from the makers of Cooking Mama. Big was fascinated. And that even with a real live baby in the house to practise on. It really would be right up her street tbh, such a shame we don’t…
All this review stuff
I’ve actually been keeping most of my reviews off this blog recently. That’s because I’ve joined the Great Toy guide review team, and you can find my thoughts on various stuff over there. One of the things we were sent to review recently was a Playmobil advent calendar, and you can read all about it,…
Are you living the good life?
That’s the good life like the TV show (The Good Life) 🙂 but maybe a little updated for a new century? This isn’t a sponsored post, before you start wondering, unless you count the jars of Whole Earth Foods peanut butter I’ve been given to review. They’ll get a post of their own in a…
Open Planet Ideas, from Sony and the WWF
This is a sponsored post. Let’s get that out of the way at the top, so no one gets to the bottom and feels cheated. Having said that, I’d be really grateful if you did read, because I think this is a fabulous project and deserves more attention, regardless of whether I’m getting paid for…
Lego Hero Heaven
I do a lot of things for the children. I look for opportunities for them to learn and experience stuff that I never got the chance to, and I tailor what I offer to their interests. So when I was offered a chance to attend an exclusive preview showing of the new Lego HeroFactory mini…
Build a bear – not just about the teddies.
Now that I’ve managed the trip into London a couple of times with just smallest, I’ve been looking for an excuse to take the older kids too, something that would enthuse them so that they’d think it would be worth the journey. I’ve looked at the various RI lectures, home ed meetups and so on,…