Making it up

Some birds for the Gallery

Jax — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:20:29 +0000

I love the Gallery posts but so rarely get around to compiling one and entering it (um, once so far I think?) but this week has the additional draw of there being chocolatey goodness on offer in the form of prizes so I couldn’t resist Having said that, it took me all day to [...]

I have a small problem.

Jax — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:21:37 +0000

This is not me. Well, obviously it is me. But it isn’t. You see, I don’t look like that. Not in my mind’s eye. I look more like this. though possibly skinnier. And less blurry. With better lighting So where has she come from, this woman in the mirror? She catches me by surprise on a daily [...]

Once more, with feeling.

Jax — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:43:17 +0000

Sadly not a Buffy post. The serious case review into the death of Khyra Ishaq came out today. Predictably a variety of ppl are blaming home education. Let me go through this very slowly. Home education did not kill Khyra Ishaq. Her parents did. The discussion is wandering around whether her death was preventable, and it seems to [...]

Heads up

Jax — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:51:38 +0000

Home education mentioned in new consultation document. Home educated pupils 80. The Government also proposes to introduce a scheme allowing local authorities to claim for funding for pupils educated at home where services are provided to these pupils. This might include giving them access to school facilities or paying the entry fees for exams sat at [...]

Quiet day needed.

Jax — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:09:38 +0000

Having been up way too late last night (which rather makes me wonder why I’m still up at this time) what I really needed was for the baby to keep me up all night feeding so that I’d be raring to go for our doctor’s appts at 9 and 9.15. So obviously she obliged [...]

10 years in

Jax — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:09:25 +0000

and still making rookie mistakes. Those of you with weak stomaches or sickness phobias will want to stop reading now. Are they gone? Good. For the rest of you: if your daughter, who sleeps in a cabin bed, tells you that she has tummy pains to go along with the high temp and headache that have caused you to [...]

Festival of history – Saturday

Jax — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:04:26 +0000

Friday morning, and indeed some of Friday afternoon, passed in a bad tempered haze of packing, carrying, putting into car, realising it wouldn’t fit, taking it out of car, repacking and so on. Not much fun. I had wanted to be away by midday, in the end it was (just) after 3 At least [...]

A bit of an excuse

Jax — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:06:55 +0000

for not blogging for a bit. We went away. Only for a couple of days, and without Tim at that, but I’ve discovered that going away for two days camping requires at least two days preparation, and a day or so coming down afterwards. So for two days out, 5 days away from virtual life. Hm. [...]

It’s that AFK Wednesday thing

Jax — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:12:06 +0000

We needed to be up and out really early (well for us, anyway) so obviously staying up until 1.30 was the thing to do. Sigh. but I had to back up my netbook again to send away *again* for repair around the intermittent white screen fault. (As an aside, if anyone from Samsung should happen to [...]

Mummy blogging?

Jax — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:10:09 +0000

There have been times in the past when I have tried to get this blog searchable on various terms. I’ve gone for home education blog. I’ve tagged posts with Badman, home ed review, and I’ve promoted posts by explaining to ppl about putting particular terms in the link text. But I’ve never tried to promote this [...]