Simple Patriotic ideas for the Jubilee

Personalised T-shirt I simply bought some bunting from the £1 shop And cut out the picture of the Queen and my son’s name from the surrounding flag I purchased a white t-shirt from the charity shop and we just sewed them on. England Cakes My 3 year old always wants to make cakes. These have … Read more

Jolly J

This week when I told my son we were on the letter J he told me that it was for Joe his best friend. First I started with my youngest child and we did jumping then we played with the Jungle animals and we had jelly and played with the jewellery We made a Union … Read more

Lego Union Jack

LEGO union jack

I have been teaching my son about the alphabet (that post is still to come this week) and this week is the turn of J so as part of that we made a Union Jack for the Jubilee out of Lego. First we sorted out the red, white and blue Lego. Unfortunately my son found … Read more

Tuesday Time Tunnel – 1978

Every Week I will give you a year and on Tuesday I will open up the Linky so you can share your post with each other and comment on what each other thought about that year. 1978 The Year I was born not only produced something as fabulous as me but also these other beauties: … Read more

Tuesday Time Tunnel (New Meme with Linky)

Welcome to Tuesday Time Tunnel Normally you listen to music, hear news etc and guess the year – Tuesday Time Tunnel does it backwards. Every week I will give you a year and you tell us about it. Whether that be Music, Films, Births, Events – whatever you want to share. Then every Tuesday I will … Read more

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time – by Mark Haddon

This is a must read book for anyone wanting an introduction into Asperger’s Syndrome. I first read this book as a parent of a child waiting to see if he would be diagnosed as having Aspergers. The book is ingeniously written in the first person by Christopher – a 15-year-old lad with Aspergers;  to try to understand … Read more

Why you should be careful

Which letter you are learning? This week it is the turn of I or i and I planned to learn about insects, to go outside and look under rocks, and bits of wood etc. Instead we ended up with an injury He fell off such a small wall and ended up with a dinner fork … Read more

Kat’s Pasta Dish

This is called Kat’s Pasta as opposed to Bacon and tomato, or Chicken and Bacon Pasta because the recipe was given to me by my friend Kat – who is an excellent cook and this (to me anyway) is her signature dish. She was drunk one night and I got her to write it down … Read more

Is it Time we thought differently about Breastfeeding?

Contrary to popular belief but women don’t continue to breastfeed in order to avoid having sex. In fact you may be surprised to know that people are breastfeeding whilst pregnant!?! I know how does that happen when breastfeeding helps provide a natural contraception and women are apparently avoiding sex!! So then I heard about this … Read more

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