Silent Sunday….
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As a teacher, I know that maths can be tricky to teach children. They either simply don’t care about the subject or find it difficult to get their heads around. As with anything, working at it will make it easier and a more enjoyable process. If you can relate and have a child who absolutely…
My granny always used to say that you could judge a man by his shoes. On Saturday mornings as a child, I remember her making a list of errands to run – greengrocers, butchers, and occasionally the cobblers to have her shoes re-heeled or fixed. I’m 39 – and I’ve never been to a…
This morning whilst Baby Dragon was napping and our Little Adventurer was playing with Noel, I was editing my long lost Christmas tree chopping photos when I came across a blog which basically said that they felt likeslapping parents that did this kind of thing (traditions on holidays), and who present overly cheerful views of…
It’s my birthday next week which means that my lovely family have been asking me what’s on my wish list, or whether they should surprise me. Thanks to my ear issues, I can’t balance and so I can’t drive – which means that I’ve been away from any shopping centre since January when I was…
This post won’t be up very long. It’s very indulgent and self pitying, and I never normally write like this. If I do press publish I’ll go back and forwards in my mind wondering whether to press the delete key – and in the end, that emotion will probably win out. You see, I would…
It’s big, hairy spider week here in Hampshire. Seriously, they are EVERYWHERE. The false widow we found on the trampoline yesterday [and swiftly relocated] was by far the biggest I’ve seen, and the pyjama spiders [garden orbital ones, we call them Miss Muffet spiders or pyjama spiders, depending on how stripey they look] on the bushes…