I seem to have an ability all of a sudden to spot immediately that someone on staff is pregnant. I called our Exams Coordinator on her pregnancy about 8 weeks before she announced it (she denied it at the time I asked her and then apologised afterwards saying she wasn't ready to tell yet) and today I correctly guessed that our Study centre ( Read more... )

Snaffled this from beanmom as, coincidently enough, I am currently re-reading P&P.

http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/

It only works if you know Facebook though.

He's young and a bit punk, looks a bit "Stray Cats". Evidently they decided not to go back to the 'old and eccentric' doctor model, preferring to keep their female fans by staying with 'young and maverick'.

Matt Smith is the new Doctor

Just embarked on a big tidy up (mainly because I don't want to leave the aircon comfort of the house). Pulled a huge number of books from under the bed, lots were X's but these were mine and I thought it might be interesting to catalogue them ( Read more... )

Both X and I were working so it wasn't as though the day had a holiday feel. ( Read more... )

The child that I had originally signed up to sponsor turned out to have been allocated a sponsor already. I did feel a bit weird about that, especially since I had already shown her picture to everyone and identified her as 'mine ( Read more... )

As always, behind the cut: ( Read more... )

06:00 Kids wake up ( Read more... )

The boys elected to spend their first day of holidays not at home with me but at Vacation Care because it was the zoo excursion. X didn't tell me so I woke up to a completely unexpectedly free day. ( Read more... )

The kids came home with their reports yesterday. Always interesting reading. ( Read more... )