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Alexander's Athenian Adventure – review and giveaway
Alongside the history day, I also want to squeeze in a quick review of a book I was sent that fitted in with today’s theme. Alexander’s Athenian Adventure, as you might imagine is set mainly in historic Athens. There’s a wealth of historic information about the society of the time, set it a quick moving…
Day 6 – an unexpected dentist #30dayplan
I’m beginning to understand why I rarely seem to get on top of anything. I know I’m very poor at organisation, but on the one day that I should have had a clear run at various stuff, I ended up losing a couple of hours to a dentist trip. Big has braces. She’s had them…
Montessori moment.
This is how I got 10 minutes to sweep the kitchen floor. I sat her in her chair with two small bowls, some sugar puffs and a spoon, and showed her transferring between bowls. She was engrossed. Sure, some of them went in her mouth, and some of them went on the floor, but that…
Kentwell and 1553.
Today I dragged the children out of bed just after 7, nearly three hours earlier than their preferred rising time in order to drag them 45 mins across country to an open day for potential re-enactors at Kentwell Hall. It was a cold start to a long day, as we drove the bright sun was…
Nokia N8 dealbreaker – no copy and paste?
I think I’ve found the dealbreaker. I’ve just spent 10 minutes trawling the internet trying to find out how to copy and paste using the Nokia N8. And I’ve found absolutely no one with the answer. (A few ppl implying there is an answer, but no one sharing it!) Could this really be true? Is…
Moblogging from N8 on phonetrial.
This is the second time I’ve written this post. The first time I explained how beautiful the phone is, lovely responsive touchscreen, fantastic camera, good touches like the onscreen keyboard appearing as soon as you rotate the phone. Then I complained about the software. Explained how this fabulous bit of kit is let down by…
Relaxkids Anger Management CD and 21 Day Programme – review.
My children are what I like to fondly refer to as high maintenance. They are passionate, intelligent, energetic, and not very good at controlling their emotions. This is not something I keep a secret from anyone who knows us – I’m not sure how I could tbh, the noise tends to give us away 😉…
Bumblejums Book and CD #100Books
We’re big on both books and the environment here, so an offer of a book about eco friendly characters to review via twitter went down well. Meet the Bumblejums gave a good first impression too. It’s bright and cheerful, although in some ways it has the look of a book accompanying a tv series if…
Pondering vaccines at the #bornto conference.
I’m at the Save the children blogging conference, listening to a talk on disaster response, sitting in the child friendly area, feeding a baby and pondering vaccines. Tough question. I know that to some ppl they are thought of as a magic wand, I know for others they are considered to be poison. And I…
Books of the weekend #100books
Another combined review of the picture books we focussed on this weekend. I try to think back to when Big and Small were this kind of age, and I doubt very much I read this number of books to them then. I think Small listened to longer stories that we were reading to Big, I…