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  • Dinosaurs

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    Anyone interested in dinosaurs? According to The Times T Rex looked like Fluffy Chick Then of course there were the pterosaurs.  

  • The Body Count Mounts

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    Crunch, squeak, crunch, squeak, crunch, gulp, gulp. Mouse No 7 is no more, all gone. I think we may be nearing the end of them. Claude always comes in looking hopeful now, I think he is convinced that we have arranged a kind of Easter Egg hunt for him. Edited 12th September, 7.20am. No 8…

  • Pant, Gasp, It's The Weekend!

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    Well, five days, and now we have Jax back for two days, I expect she is going to spend most of it asleep though. Word Of The Day histrionics: Exaggerated emotional behavior calculated for effect. I must say, this has been quite a tough week, but I have really enjoyed it. High point was last…

  • Mine

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    Her: …and I think we can call it our blog now. Me: You can call it what you like, it’s your blog.

  • Angelina

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    Because mouse number three is going to ballet.

  • School is not compulsory

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    But education is. Word of the day nothing: No thing; not anything Which is what you get to do if you won’t do reading. Child despatched off to my office to read, returns 5 minutes later having read 5 words, refusing to do more. Child advised that is not enough, (didn’t go into the full…

  • A Mouse's Tale, My First Group

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    Word Of The Day application: Close attention; diligence: shows application to her work. Boy was I surprised! Sent Big up to my office with a book this morning to work her way through it on her own prior to reading it with me…….one hour later she was still hard at work. I think she reckons…

  • News from the Big Top, Beppo writes

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    Today’s word? delegate assign a task to (a person). Or otherwise, get some other sucker to do all the work. Big appears to be of the opinion that it is me that needs to learn all this stuff. Having decided that she wanted to do a card for mummy and got me to write out…

  • Unjaxing

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    A bit like unschooling? 🙁 Later Big and I are doing English. I plan on teaching her a new word: overacting n : poor acting by a ham actor [syn: hamming] overact v. tr: To act (a dramatic role) with unnecessary exaggeration.

  • Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index

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    “Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. “Soon, it will be.” Google Purge