How to use the Base 10 method to divide I’m sat at my desk, attempting to get some work done, but secretly listening to the little lady’s live reading lesson. It has taken me straight back to my childhood. Listening to an adult read to you is like meditation. I glanced over at her laptop …
Crafting fun with kids during the lockdown. With everything else going on at the moment and home learning seemingly topping every agenda. I have been keen to get the kids away from laptops and doing other stuff once their school day reaches an end. The weather is grim and it is practically dark by three …
Easy and Cheap Christmas Dinner Anyone that knows me well will know that I am not keen on mentioning the word Christmas before December. However this year I have decided to abandon my normal rules and bring it up in November and not only that, I am attempting an easy and cheap Christmas dinner. In …
Pass the Pugs Review (ad) I have fond memories of playing Pass the Pigs as a child. It would entertain for hours. Back in the late 1970s when the game was first released I often could be found sitting around a table with family or friends casually tossing two little plastic pig’s into the air, …
Getting Creative with Design Bundles The kids are back to school, things seem to be getting back to normal (ish) and the evenings are starting to draw in. The kids are not outside as much any more, so I am needing to find stuff for them to do inside. The boys seem to have a …
We have attended The Food and Drink Festival 2020 and you can too. Normally by now, the kids and I are regularly visiting local food and drink festivals in the region. Not only do they enjoy an amble around a sunny outside space, they, in their own words ‘get a load of free food’ in …
Lockdown Activities While my eldest two are busying themselves on Google Classroom. The youngest of the team is finding herself ‘bored’ more often than normal. The primary school age group seem to speed through their required pieces of work at the speed of light. Some Lockdown activities were needed. I have been making use …
Silver Lining As we fast approach the end of week 5 of this unprecedented era of lockdown. People across the country are learning to deal with rules that to begin with felt so unnatural. But does every cloud have a silver lining? The majority of children are off school, many people told to not work. …
Being single I hadn’t really planned a ‘valentines’ post. So why do I find myself writing one and why is a day late? So, this is my valentines day. I have an urge to start this post with, ‘Once upon a time, in a far distant place……..” and give you a story about being single …
How to rob a bank Just to clarify, I don’t know how to rob a bank and I am not about to teach you. Well not a real one anyway. How to rob a bank a board game review. We are particularly fond of a board game in our house. Especially over the winter months …
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