Oh Well

Swizz Of The Cards Just say No2ID.

Well I had a Sabbatical last week. Five days of blogging was just too much for me. It was a hectic week. I was trying and failing to catch up on all the work I meant to do, I had somehow knackered my back. (New knackered, not the same old same old). I went to […]

Crunch, squeak, crunch, squeak, crunch, gulp, gulp. Mouse No 7 is no more, all gone. I think we may be nearing the end of them. Claude always comes in looking hopeful now, I think he is convinced that we have arranged a kind of Easter Egg hunt for him. Edited 12th September, 7.20am. No 8 […]

Well, five days, and now we have Jax back for two days, I expect she is going to spend most of it asleep though. Word Of The Day histrionics: Exaggerated emotional behavior calculated for effect. I must say, this has been quite a tough week, but I have really enjoyed it. High point was last […]

Her: …and I think we can call it our blog now. Me: You can call it what you like, it’s your blog.

Because mouse number three is going to ballet.

But education is. Word of the day nothing: No thing; not anything Which is what you get to do if you won’t do reading. Child despatched off to my office to read, returns 5 minutes later having read 5 words, refusing to do more. Child advised that is not enough, (didn’t go into the full […]

Word Of The Day application: Close attention; diligence: shows application to her work. Boy was I surprised! Sent Big up to my office with a book this morning to work her way through it on her own prior to reading it with me…….one hour later she was still hard at work. I think she reckons […]

Today’s word? delegate assign a task to (a person). Or otherwise, get some other sucker to do all the work. Big appears to be of the opinion that it is me that needs to learn all this stuff. Having decided that she wanted to do a card for mummy and got me to write out […]