‘Stuff & Nonsense’ Articles
Written by Susan on 24 February 2010
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 = 3 (I go to [Continue]
Written by Martin on 02 August 2009
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 for [Continue]
Written by Martin on 28 July 2009
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]
Written by becca on 19 July 2009
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]
Written by Martin on 15 May 2009
You lookin’ at me?, originally uploaded by crunchy_with_ketchup. [Continue]
Written by Martin on 29 October 2008
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]
Written by becca on 10 March 2008
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
3: I keep [Continue]
Written by becca on 03 January 2008
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]
Written by Martin on 01 January 2008
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]
Written by Susan on 28 October 2007
Rebekah tried to give Jonathan a piggyback. She failed and they both toppled over into the flower bed! We were full of concern and sympathy as you can see.
Now Rebekah decides that she must attempt to straighten the flowers that she has accidentally squashed. Such environmental concern, we are so [Continue]