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Olympic Propaganda

by grumpyoldman
19 Aug 2008 at 12:16pm
Much to the BBC’s amusement (and mine, too, I have to admit) it seems to be bothering the Ockers that Team GB is ahead of them on the Olympic Medals Table - as the Sydney Morning Herald reported this morning, “Poms are winning, call an inquiry. ” I think that they need to learn from Our [...]

Isle of Wight Holiday

by busyknitter
17 Aug 2008 at 4:03pm
Here are some piccies from our week away. The House The Pool Inside A very jolly time was had by all

My Quiet Week - Days 4 and 5

by busyknitter
17 Aug 2008 at 3:33pm
Not much happened.

Muddled Thinking

by grumpyoldman
14 Aug 2008 at 11:14am
If you got your A’ Level results today, congratulations. (I hope that there is no need for commiserations.) However, let’s try to avoid jumping onto one of the many bandwagons associated with the ever-rising pass rate of the old-fashioned ‘Gold Standard’ of British education. First, let’s look at the difference between modern A’ Levels and the ones [...]

Women!

by grumpyoldman
9 Aug 2008 at 1:58pm
Three months after we started, including visiting dealerships for every major car manufacturer in the area, after ordering and then cancelling a perfectly good Volvo estate, after test driving damn near everything available within budget, after agonising about choices from the unbelievably mumsy (another MPV) to the ridiculously impractical (a 2+2 convertible) Darling Wifey has [...]

Variant Spellings

by grumpyoldman
7 Aug 2008 at 12:28pm
This is a brilliant idea. According to Professor Ken Smith at Bucks New University (where?) “teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words our students most commonly misspell.” So instead of there being a ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ way of spelling, there are only ‘variants.’ Or perhaps that should say, “they’re our only variants.” Except it shouldn’t [...]

My Quiet Week - Day 3

by busyknitter
7 Aug 2008 at 10:32am
A very quiet day; My sore throat from Tuesday flowered into a fabulous head cold, so I had to cancel my afternoon singing lesson. The friend who is coming to Greenbelt with us came round in the morning for a planning session. We decided to go for the minimal kibble approach; i.e. no cooking. I popped into [...]

A plague on both their houses!

by busyknitter
6 Aug 2008 at 7:58am
I’ve removed Spiked from my links. Reason? I came across Lobbywatch on a casual internet browse which goes on at length about how it is hugely bound up in what appears to be a Revolutionary Communist Party, pro-GM, pro all scientific progress at all costs lobbying network. At least that’s what folk like George Monbiot reckon. Now, [...]

My Quiet Week - Day 2

by busyknitter
6 Aug 2008 at 3:21am
Took T to the church holiday club for a little while in the morning. I couldn’t leave him there as they aren’t set up with enough workers to give him the attention (but I think I will start asking for them to lay something on next year). He really enjoyed it. When we arrived, there was [...]

My Quiet Week - Day 1

by busyknitter
5 Aug 2008 at 3:06am
Husband and older son plus my Mum have toodled off to Paris for a short autism-free break, leaving me and and the little fella at home. We have no grand plans because we are off to the Isle of Wight on Saturday. I thought I’d keep a daily diary of our very quiet week [...]