Archive for March, 2007

Don’t know no education.

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Couple of good days here again. The girls have been heavily into the borrowed copy they have of High School Musical and along with them dancing and singing and strutting their stuff, i’m horrified to find i’ve started singing the tunes too Is it me, or does the lad in it look like he [...]

Showing off :)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Claire arrived at 10am today, about 30 seconds after i had woken up and remembered she was coming to see us! Oh, she brought Charlie too That was approximately the last week saw of the children.
Task of the day was this - i retook my Beedible pictures and i’m REALLY pleased with them. I [...]

Ooops.

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Ahem. I hate quizzes with too many appropriate words in them.

You are George Orwell
Paranoid and Cynical. You are able to understand society and the human psyche quickly and easily. You are depressed a lot of the time, because you are clever enough to see what is really going on in the world.
Take this [...]

Protected: PW: That word i don’t say.

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

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Project Prayer Beads

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

(Or as Maddy called them, Beads of Pray, which i  rather liked)
Very enjoyable morning, with a house filled with an assortment of people. Mummy Flower was here with Baby Flower, who is beginning to like me and smiles at me now, an infinite improvement on howling with horror. She’s adorably clingy to her [...]

Connected Services for Child protection and all that.

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Max and i have been wondering recently exactly the extent to which some sort of smear campaign is being conducted against HEers, prior to the, perhaps inevitable, legislation to control us all. It seems like a succession of stories come out, radio interviews with LEA officers, articles etc all slanted against these well meaning but [...]

Bullying in the news

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

I probably don’t stand up nearly enough and shout about the injustice of bullying, something i experienced for the majority of my junior schooling. Not just simple taunting, but physical bullying, bullying aimed to humiliate me and exclude me and bullying that simply wasn’t handled well enough by any of the people who were supposed [...]