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According to The Register “Scientists at Okayama University in Japan have rather agreeably discovered that unidentified compounds in lager and stout may help to prevent DNA damage leading to cancer.” Yayyy!!!!

Essential wear for ring bearers, I would have thought. A serious history link too, a digitisation of the history of ‘merry’ London costerfolk from the 19th Century.

Unbelievable

Think about it, you go on about how five is much too young for starting kids’ education and sending them off to school but as soon as yours can close their hand round a wooden block you’re off on the autonomous, child centred, child led…..

My kind of A level “An exam board has agreed to include boxing on the list of sports that can be studied for its A-level in PE.”

The spirit of the times, or should that be Zeitgeist? 1904 hip 1905 whizzo 1906 teddy bear 1907 egghead 1908 realpolitik 1909 tiddly-om-pom-pom 1910 sacred cow 1911 gene 1912 blues 1913 celeb 1914 cheerio 1915 civvy street 1916 U-boat 1917 tailspin 1918 ceasefire 1919 ad-lib 1920 demob 1921 pop 1922 wizard 1923 hem-line 1924 lumpenproletariat […]

As some of you may know I am currently suffering (and that is the right word to describe what I am doing 🙁 ) from a slipped disc. This means that I am spending rather a lot of time supine and sitting for extended periods is a real problem for me. So what I have […]

Most teachers think parents are not involved enough with their children’s education and expect too much of schools, a survey says (BBC). ..well, I think we can solve that one for them…. But as to the rest Schools in England will stay open for 10 hours a day, under childcare plans to be presented by […]

We’ve been playing with Multimap. Specifically, we have been playing with the aerial maps. We looked at our house, we looked at J, J, C & M’s house, grandfather and uncle David’s houses (we wanted to see the sea) and we looked at Kessingland (“Where’s the field with my tent?”). Big definitely seems to have […]