Making it up

Who are your friends?

Jax — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:26:19 +0000

Take a look around at your nearest and dearest friends. What do you have in common with them? Probably some interests that drew you together. Perhaps you are neighbours. Maybe you met them via your children’s interests – I’ve met two parents through Brownies and swimming since we’ve moved here that we’ve spent time with [...]

History on our bookshelf.

Jax — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:08:06 +0000

Yesterday I mentioned making Lord Woolton’s pie, working from a recipe in Wartime Cookbook that we got out of the library. Then last night when I was preparing tea (nothing exciting, chinese chicken bits from the coop with stir fry veg and rice) I noticed an elderly looking book on the bookshelf. [For anyone relatively new [...]

one handed blogging.

Jax — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:08:22 +0000

last post was about Friday. Since then: soa rolled over twice during a nappy change, and is becoming increasingly mobile on the floor. She also managed to wriggle herself around in the cot and pick up toys that I thought were out of her reach. Am loving watching her figure things out. Big and I have been [...]

library and lapbooking

Jax — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:21:33 +0000

Most of the day got away from me today, but somehow I managed to retrieve the latter part of the afternoon and we headed out for fruit and to pop to the library. I should have known that popping and the library are mutually exclusive concepts where we’re concerned, but we did manage to leave [...]

I’m in two minds whether to blog this one….

Jax — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:20:57 +0000

‘cos I want to win it! Sunnymama has yet another fab giveaway, this time a lactivist Mummy milk rocks Tshirt or bag. That T shirt would look fabulous on soa, don’t you agree?

There are some journalists left.

Jax — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:04:49 +0000

Forget about the issue of home education. That is just a smokescreen designed to cover another calamitous failure by a social services department already under government special measures because its protection of vulnerable children is deemed inadequate. For once this is not a quote from a home educating blogger, this is a mainstream journalist. He says [...]

Where do the days go?

Jax — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:27:49 +0000

I think I forgot to mention last week that we made it to the opticians and Big has near perfect vision with a hint of long sightedness while Small is slightly more long sighted but not enough to do anything about it as he isn’t reporting any problems. So that was good. Oh, and soa [...]

Saving money on a science-y Saturday.

Jax — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:54:36 +0000

Started the day by saving £15 a month for the next year I’d ordered a new O2 sim through TopCashBack who were offering £100 on 12 month sim only deals for that week. It finally arrived so I rang up to get a PAC from T-mobile, who instead offered me a £5 a [...]

Let’s see…

Jax — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:05:26 +0000

there’s been loads happening here this week. Monday is Beavers, can’t remember what went on before it. Kids are going through another phase of long involved imaginative games in their bedroom and then today, the garden, which I do love to see. Tuesday may have been the day they rediscovered tutpup. It was also swimming lesson day, [...]

My complaint to the BBC

Jax — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:44:24 +0000

It’s short, but hopefully to the point. This case is being reported as a child withdrawn from school to be home educated and then being starved to death. Factually this is inaccurate – Khyra Ishaq was withdrawn in December, but no attempt was made to deregister her for months – this is not home education, this [...]