Ok, so I'm NOT gonna be wasting all my time on line this November. I am too busy. I am starting a teaching assistant course, I am the secretary of Dan's school's PTA and there are LOADS of Christmas things to organise. And, since I'm ridiculously optimistic, I'm also gonna try Nano again. (I actually WON last year...never quit while you're ahead, ( Read more... )

So, lots of my friends have posted about this - and my initial reaction was to agree that yep, it's crazy. Arresting women for miscarrying? Illegal birth control? Nuts!

( That isn't the point, really )

Anyone in the Leeds area - if you are free tomorrow (Sunday) 12-3pm, please come and support the PTA car boot sale at Dan's school - Thorpe Primary, Dolphin Lane, Thorpe WF3 3DG.  Free to browse, £8 for a pitch. There will be refreshments and a bouncy castle.

Hope to see some of you there!

Ideally, we would today be having a referendum with a fair question, where it wouldn't MATTER whether the system of voting used was FPTP or AV or something else. This question:

“Do you want electoral reform?”

What we have is the wrong question.

It's like asking: would you like a Snickers bar or a packet of cheese and onion crisps? And ( Read more... )

I'm rather proud of this one, and since I don't sing, and it's not really Outcast appropriate (well, certainly not in the Hinterlands), I thought I'd put this out here  -  I am thinking smallstoat might like it, given her LJ descriptiony thingimybob wotsit bit...

( You're so slain )

Apparently there's a surge of it that hits 4 year old boys.  Dan is a coupla months early, methinks.  I was hoping I could just keep on blaming Christmas and excess chocolate consumption, but .....

And please tell me, mothers of older ones - they grow out of the copying-whatever-you-say-in-an-annoying-fashion stage soon, right? RIGHT?

er..yeah, happy new year and all that, folks.

I should probably make some resolutions and stuff, right?

Meh, I'll start tomorrow.

Who wins in a fight when one combatant has a light sabre and the other an X-ray gun?

Whichever, I've got a headache from the flashing lights.

Happy stuff-your-face day, chaps and chapesses.

I've been terribly lax about updating here. Been a busy November. I wrote a novel ( Read more... )

So..we're reading The Hobbit to Dan as a bedtime story - and he is enthralled - they are about to enter Mirkwood, and my hand has been squeezed quite tightly at times.  After the Hobbit, we read a couple of short kids books before he goes to sleep (in an attempt to avoid goblin-filled dreams).  Today we got a load of new library books, including a ( Read more... )