It’s all go in the Medina estuary and Solent this evening.  The coastguard helicopter has been flying low over the Medina, clearly searching.  The County Press has just reported that someone has gone overboard the Red Funnel Ferry. It has to be said that it’s pretty hard to accidentally fall over the side of a car [Continue]

On our recent holiday to the Broads we arrived at the boatyard two hours early, so thought we would pootle off somewhere for a couple of hours, have some lunch and then return.  We ended up at the Hickling Broad Nature reserve where we bought some books but decided against going in as it was [Continue]

Thought I would join the realms of muttering. Is it just me who didn’t know there was anything wrong with cycling along a cycle path? Last week as my sister and I were cycling from Newport to Cowes we could see in the distance three people and a dog blocking the entire width of the cycle path. [Continue]

Well so much for the idea that the new legislation that comedy duo Balls and Badman want to introduce will only be good for home educators, it has done much harm even while it is only proposed legislation, not least in the amount of time it means that we home educated parents have wasted on [Continue]

Right,  so last night something happened that made me so cross I’ve ventured into Martin’s Muttering territory for the first time.  I’m not even sure I’m actually allowed to be here rather than the fluffy bunny areas of the site! Last night Rebekah and three of her friends (aged 12-14) were waiting at the bus stop in [Continue]

I’ve just heard the latest on Kerry Robertson and the thought of social services virtually wrenching her baby from it’s mothers breast leads me feeling numb.  I’m not one for trial by newspaper, especially where the Daily Mail is concerned, but Fife council’s behaviour has all the hallmarks of our [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 for [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 have recently delved into the world of the Freedom of Information Act.  Under the act the people of this country have the right to request the release of information held by public bodies.  It’s all about transparency.  For apparently obvious reasons, the government added in a number of safeguards, under which public departments [Continue]

Over the last few days I have been posting a series of blog articles looking at the Badman review of home education, and proposals to introduce new legislation on the back of it.  If you don’t know about the review, or the  catastrophic effects it could have on educational freedoms and family rights in the [Continue]