I’ve written before about books and reading with children. In fact I ran a competition to win some Charlie and Lola books and I’m delighted to say that they are winging their way to Red Ted Art even as we speak (as it were.) If you didn’t win, fear not, since there will be more [...]
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PD has been a bit off colour of late so we’ve been staying at home doing some winter craft. As she is a big raw-dough consumer, I came up with an alternative to prevent her overdosing on salt, with a little help from the Usbourne 50 Christmas Things to Make and Do book. All [...] There have been a few extra bodies in our bed of late, and before you start thinking that you’ve tuned into the wrong blog and that it should be beyond the watershed, I refer to: 1. The Wonder Hound, who whined so pitifully in the night because she was cold that we brought her into [...] It’s been nine days and I’m already feeling the pain. I refer not to the blog-a-day thing, though I have to say that is challenging. At the moment, juggling the Pocket Dictator, Wonder Hound and kamikaze Dimpled One usually means that I spend all day thinking about posting and most of the evening (after clearing [...] The Pocket Dictator went to meet ‘The Man’ this weekend. I refer of course to the man in the red suit. It’s all she’s talked about for days, and she gabbled excitedly as we patiently waited our turn at the Church Fair Santa’s Grotto. So I shouldn’t have been surprised that, as soon as we [...] Despite being a Radio Two afficionado for, well, ever (did I mention that I have been thirty-something since I was five?) I am often not in the right frame of mind to listen to Sounds of the Sixties on a Saturday morning, not least this morning after walking the halls with Dimples for three hours [...] I wasn’t going to write for the Workshop this week. I only started it recently and thought the prompt of ‘Get Lyrical’ was a bit too wide. If I start thinking about songs I end up playing a sort of word-association game in my head where one song leads to another song, which leads to [...] |
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