Well a tidy fireplace area anyway.   We had some lovely flowers for Burns night so they are making everything look brighter as is the home-made book with daffodils on the cover.           [Continue]

Question: If you take one home educating family of 3 children and 2 adults home many home educating children can you expect to pass through the house in the course of a busy Wednesday. Answer: Lots Here goes 5 – 1 =4  (we start with Ruth at a friends having had a sleepover) 4-1 = [Continue]

Who’s that trip-trapping over my toll motorway?  A people carrier?  Yum, extra money from them. The delightful people at Midland Expressway Limited have come up with an ingenious pricing system.  I looked up their prices online and decided that while they were rather high at £4.70 for a car decided I would stomach the cost [Continue]

What has happened to sellotape in recent years?  It used to be that if you brought “own brand” sticky tape you took your chances, but sellotape could be trusted to do the job, albeit at a price.  Now though the sellotape brand is a guarantee of complete sticktastic failure.   I spent 20 minutes earlier wrestling [Continue]

I was at the beach the other day with my new camera (thank You Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Gibson!)  and decided to do a Dad and take pictures of the beautiful scenery on the beach. So here are the pebbles on the beach! [Continue]

You lookin’ at me?, originally uploaded by crunchy_with_ketchup. [Continue]

A line that Jonathan (age 6) just delivered. No, not the latest wine from Lidl, but his antihistamine medicine! Must get him to check out the fine bouquet tomorrow…. [Continue]

Mum told me to make a list of reasons i’m a numpty, I think she was joking and I also DON’T think i’m a numpty but hey I did it anyway 1: Mum says so and she thinks she’s always right 2: I always seem to be being “stupid” at the wrong moments in time [Continue]

My Dad at the old age of 33 can’t even spell bath!!!! I think he should go back to school, or at least use spell checker!anyway it was three little frogs not 5! [Continue]

Bex is in the batch, singing (loudly) “5 little ducks went swimming one day…” only about frogs rather than ducks. She was given some frogs to play with in the batch at Christmas, so I guess she is playing with those. So, will she be 12 this year, or 2? [Continue]