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Wife of an IT guru and mother of 1 daughter and 4 boys. I am employed as a GP associate in Spalding. I have few hobbies as I am working all the time or as a mother. I enjoy making products form things I have grown or scrumpped.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Listography - 5 celebrities I would like to have a beer with

I am slow to add my list and that is because while there are loads I would love, on having to pin it down to names, I am suddenly struck mentally dumb. So here are 5 folk I think I would like to know more about/chat to:
1. Rolf Harris.
A good egg and interesting chap. I would love to be acquainted with Rolf.

2. Emmeline Pankhurst.
What a person to know better! I would very much like to know what she would make of womens rights now.

3. King Edward the 1st of England (and Scotland).
Thinking outside my station in life here. But would be fascinated to know more about this warmonger who loved his first wife so very dearly. True love in very strong/powerful men is a very attractive phenomenon

4. Eleanor of Aquitaine
I figure if I can put a King, why not a queen of France and England? A very strong woman with spirit and passion.

5. Bill Bryson
Anglophile and all round clever chap. As with Rolf, there is something wonderful about people from palpably better countries who like our pokey has been one. I think he would be the best of my choice to enjoy the pint with.

Cheers!!

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Reasons to be cheerful

Mum has made it out to South Africa to be with her family. This has been a goal of hers for some years as she has battled her illness. The battle is not won but she has triumphed on this front.

It is my eldest sons birthday tomorrow. He is very excited and has reminded us of the days approach often. We have bought a present we are pretty confident he will love. So we are really excited too!

I have been for a jog of 3 miles before 8.30am. The weather is still and cool. My home is beautiful and the air clear. The jog was good in so many ways.
My kids are going to have a busy day (Saturday) and their enjoyment is ours (see above).


Have a look at other folks Reasons to be cheerful

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Some good, some not so good

Just a general blog to my self this time.
Good things: made some sharp diagnosis this week.
Did some good work on the maty department.
Zach is walking
We are making crafty things for Christmas, and this is going well
Matt is swimming well
Ben has turned a corner with his reading
Cesca & Tim are enjoying being read to again

Not so good (though not bad)
I am dog tired and noise is wearing at the mo - a problem with 5 young kids!
It is getting cold & dark
Cesca growing up is causing everyone to loose their communication skills as she 'ugs' up puberty style, even Zach whinges
I have just paid on line a bill hubby paid 2 hours ago.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Listography - games I used to play

Another fun thing to list!!

1. Laggie.
This involved a large loop of knicker elastic that was hooked over 2 players ankles while a third jumped from one side of elasti to the other in a precise manner in a precise order. Errors meant you were 'out' and you swapped with one of the girls holding the elastic with their ankles. start pointfor the elastic: at ease position(normalzise), around ankles. progression was: same stance at knee height, legs wide (widezes) apart around ankles - then at knee height, then ankles together (thinsizes) ankle height then knee height, then all over again but moving! Hardest was thinsizes around ankles.

2.Skipping rope.

I became excellent at skipping solo or in group. Loved the games for 3 or more and jumping in and out of the routine with the rope swinging!

3.What time is it Mr Wolf?

A stealth game with chasing in, so this one attracted some of the boys into the game. Basically kids call out 'what time is it Mr wolf?' at one end of play ground while the 'wolf' would have her back to the rest of the players and call out O'clocks - the players would then aim to take massive strides in the number called. Mr Wold would randomly call out 'dinner time!' when he perceived a player was close (or cheated and looked back) - the aim being to catch a player. If some one touched the wolfs wall they won and the wolf had to have another go. If the wolf caught someone (ie they were close and easy to catch but at the wolfs wall yet) then they would have to be wolf next time.


4. The big Ship sailed down the Ally-Ally-O/Farmers in his den/Hoke Cokey
The group singing and action games. There were only 6 girls to 26 boys in my class, so these game were played with the whole schools girls. Loved them.

5. Wonder woman.

A game that I happily played by myself but more often than not played with a boy called James. We were both Wonder woman. We would dash about with a headband around our foreheads and a cloak about our shoulders singing the theme tune to this fabulous TV program. I seriously hoped and prayed even, to grow up to be Wonder woman, or at least look like her.

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Listography - 5 things I did this summer

A brief thing the Shetland summer, so I shall define summer more as the kids summer holidays:

1. Watched my brother get married.



A beautiful couple and a fabulous day

2. Had a week of only 3 children, all 5 or under. This was like a step back to a simpler time of life, as the older two were away on a residential Christian youth camp. We got to have the house back from 7pm. We didn't have back chat and shouting to get kids out of bed in the morning - the 3 little ones woke themselves from 5.30am anyway!!

3. I learned that what I thought of as fringe Christian radical dogma, used to jeer at Christian belief, is not at all on the fringes. My oldest 2 kids came back from camp with some radical, unpleasant and in my opinion wrong ideas of what it means to be Christian. This was an interdenominational youth camp and hugely enjoyed by the kids. School allowed distribution of leaflets advertising it. It is fully booked with waiting lists.
BUT - they were kept up until 11pm to contemplate bible readings in solitude, a well used form of brain washing.
-they were encouraged to draw conclusions from the bible that are anti Semitic. -they were taught science is wrong and faith means believing unquestioningly creation as set out in the bible.
So 3.5 I did a lot of bible discussion with the kids!

4. DLRP We drove from Shetland to DLRP taking our time and visiting friends and relatives. I did Space Mountain loads of times with Tim!! Good fun and the whole family had a blast.


5. Appeared live on national TV.
This is not as exciting as it sounds and I looked a prat as did the cloud appreciation society I was on TV representing. A mean move by the BBC but I can't say I was harmed, just belittled. I did very much enjoy the build up and the sense of 'talking' to media types though.

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Moving on



September already and it feel there has been a change. Not the weather - it changed beginning August. Zach walking is a big thing and so I post one of his efforts today. But there is more to it than that.
The year is now getting old.
Work is changing its style and computer system.
I am contemplating another qualification and not another baby.
My family are entering new phases each one.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

The Gallery - animals



Look closely and you will see a fish in the rock pool. Found by my daughter!!