Not that we’re putting up much resistance or anything. However, I’m a little concerned that it’s not just Christmas that has a foothold in our house…http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377Click here if you can’t see the embedded video. Continue reading Christmas is invading my loungeroom
Just a quick note to extend an invitation to the lovely Hoydenizens About Town and also to anyone else I should have contacted already but have by some hideous oversight missed. We’re hosting our usual Christmas party again this year When: Sat 12th Dec from 4pm till lateWhere: At our placeWhat: Open house – come early, come late, stay a little or a long while, whatever you can manage we’d love to see you! Santa will arrive a 5:30pm for the kids (don’t forget to tell me if your kids will be there at that time). If you need my … Continue reading Christmas party time!
He does after all, have quite a thing for Lizzy Bennet. Oh well. Take the Quiz here! Continue reading I’m sure Adam will be disappointed
Hosted by Mrs4444. A tossed salad of bits and bobs from the week just gone with a touch of things to come for extra flavour. Be sure to pop over to Mrs4444’s place for other fragmentary offerings for today! 1. On Wednesday afternoon my 12 year old walked into the loungeroom , smiled at me and said “Hi Mum, you’re awesome.” I can live with that. 2. The second dwarf gourami is dead and we’re down to one rummy nose tetra in Tom’s tank. I’m not buying anymore fish till after Christmas, that should give all the tanks plenty of … Continue reading Friday Fragments and Linkfest No. 12
I started to respond to comments on my previous post on the subject but it was getting kind of epic, so I thought I’d better chuck it all in a post of its own. This may be a little disjointed! (BTW, Scripture = Special Religious Education, or SRE, but no-one calls it that.) A couple of people made reference to the thumb-twiddling in the library being not such a bad thing, I must admit I very nearly included a disclaimer in the original post to the effect that I was quite sure the kids were perfectly happy with the thumb-twiddling … Continue reading More thoughts on Scripture in schools
I had just sat down with a cup of tea and a pistachio and cranberry shortbread biscuit (which, incidentally, is rather yummy) when I spotted this intruder perched on the top of my backpack beside the lounge. I love those long toes, so cute! Teeny little skink I caught it and took it outside where it promptly ran up my arm, jumped onto my shirt, scurried down my front, slunk around behind me and tried to hide up the leg of my shorts. Fortunately Adam was able to head it off at the pass without hurting it and it’s now … Continue reading I like lizards
I’ve seen this one floating around in various forms a bit lately and I had it tucked away in the back of my mind for a day like today. It’s day 24 of NaBloPoMo and the muse was not visiting. So a meme it is – one word answers to a bunch of questions which may or may not mean something, you decide 😛 1. Where is your cell phone? Table 2. Your significant other? Hubby 🙂 3. Your hair? Dishevelled 4. Your mother? Awesome 5. Your father? Generous 6. Your favourite thing? Peace 7. Your dream last night? Forgotten … Continue reading One word meme
Many moons ago, back in March to be precise, I participated in a blogging meme titled Want a gift from me? I was supposed to deliver those gifts within a month of posting the offer. Here we are almost 8 months later and it hasn’t been done – man am I ever slack! Time to remedy the situation I think. Alix, Mel and Marjorie, I know the gift was supposed to be a surprise but I have these super cute Christmas earrings so I’m kind of hoping that you all have pierced ears and a fondness for Christmas sparkliness, can … Continue reading Better late than never?
Today I have dealt with more than my fair share of angst. I got up this morning with some no small effort and went to check on Tom’s fish tank. I hadn’t done this for nearly a week, Tom had been very responsible with feeding his fish and I’ve been kind of busy. In Tom’s tank I discovered one very ill looking siamese fighting fish lying upside down on the gravel. Tom had to be bundled off to school hoping that his Simo would be ok, I warned him that it didn’t look good. After the kids had gone to … Continue reading Mondays aren’t usually this bad
We held Christmas markets at the school today. In 40 degree heat. (That’s 104F for you non-metric types.) I shared a stall with a friend, it was our first markets for both of us so we had no idea how it would go. Thank FSM that Simone had organised a table cloth and clever deployment of a box for our display, ’cause I completely dropped the bundle on that aspect of things. Our stall It was a bit breezy and the earring displays were exhibiting slight nautical tendencies, sailing across the table every so often. Eventually we managed to arrange … Continue reading Market day
Mim's Muddle 