I’ve been reading (with some envy it must be said) blogs over east who describe lovingly how their children have enjoyed their first day back at school (or not) and how empty the house feels. My house is not empty. Nor does there seem to much looking forward to next week. Here’s their reaction when [...]
School
So what did we do about the school situation? We got her into the private school. She took the last place left. I rang our school to see what they could do but really, they seemed a bit stuck. For a start, none of the others had told them so they didn’t know all the [...]
My Junior Poshi is 10, grade 5. There are five girls in her class at the local public primary school which is on the same block as we live. In other words, she doesn’t have to cross a road to get to school. It’s a great little school and we’ve been happy to send her [...]
This week a major topic of conversation has been the story of the two boys who nearly got run over by a speeding train. [The West has a video] Turns out the first boy to run across is in my son’s year at school. His story is that he thought the train coming into the [...]
[I interrupt my back-to-back West Wing viewing - now up to series 3 - to bring you this post - don't get me started on the lamps...] This is kind of following on from my previous English post… I was thinking about things that I always check when I’m writing. The two that I consciously [...]
I’m actually emailing to let you know that we’ve begun to discuss the chapter questions for Mice and Men and whilst discussing the second question of Chapter 1 [your son] made a very insightful point about George’s benefit of having Lennie around; namely for protection, company and extra income. Leading up to the point [your [...]
My baby is a superfish! She won her Freestyle race by a mile and came runner-up champion girl. Well done gorgeous! To celebrate – golden flowers and of course the obligatory hot chips. I know, I know but they are occasional food and this was a special occasion!
I’m in the midst of back-to-school shopping – trying to get it done before I go back to work – and my daughter and I think school diaries are really boring. I saw a Jacqueline Wilson diary in Ireland which I thought would have been good but of course they don’t stock them here and [...]
