Archive for December, 2004

Being civilised.

Thursday, December 30th, 2004

Today Max decided to teach Fran how to play Civ 2. Highly amusing, not least because she called all the towns by colours, “Pretty Pink”, “Pretty Purple” etc, Max is still playing this one now, very manly… The game also provoked the computer into saying “The Raymonds are Revolting” and inspired Fran to ask “I [...]

Where are my children?

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

Man, i could get used to this “two parents at home ” malarky. I’ve hardly seen them. (Which is only pleasant for a change, but still!) I got a lie in, followed by time to do the quantity of parcels i’ve accumulated in the week since last posting date, played on ebay a bit, sold [...]

Clearly, i’m a genius

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

Because i (and i assume a vast quantity of other people) spotted the link between eating disorders and dancing rather a long time ago. However, its nice to see that schools will be adhering to MY history teaching methods in future. Gods… and they think home edders need monitoring.
Couple of photos.

My mum with Josie and [...]

Doesn’t bear thinking about.

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

But i do think that when massive disasters happen, you can’t help thinking about it. Last night i was watching the news and theBBC had emails going across the bottom, from people who had heard that everyone in certain hotels were safe and well. So much news is bad these days, so much is about [...]

Magical Magic.

Monday, December 27th, 2004

Okay, i think Maddy has had enough of Christmas. One more day would have done her in i think, but she made it through. Much better than last year and a full scale pat on the back to all of us for it i think. Today she required a bit of quiet time with Max [...]

Please Miss…

Sunday, December 26th, 2004

Can i go to bed now? ;~)
Couldn’t give it internal structure though, it wouldn’t fit. Still trying to suss the one in the book that seems to be grown outwards from 14 stems on one ball.

Oh THAT is what Geomags are for then!!!!

Sunday, December 26th, 2004

Excellent, one of those “year 2″ topics covered effortlessly on Boxing Day :~) You’ll have to excuse me ethusing about this but it will make a perfect “liftable topic” for next years Educational Report. Enchanted Learning have quite a good page for this but i really must do it on mP too - they would [...]