Now that the silly grin is starting to wear off GP1’s face and school is back in earnest, I thought it was time to reflect on our experience of sitting Standard Grades in S3. After all, this is pretty much where I came in, although my blog posts have since ambled off into all sorts of areas [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Some standard reflections
Published August 23rd, 2007 in SQA, School and Standard Grades. 7 CommentsNo, nothing to do with school boards. But I thought the EduBuzz readership might enjoy this blog post on school supplies from a Scot exiled to America. Please don’t get too many ideas. Although I have bought Sharpies from Viking in the past…
I passed my HSE diving medical today. I thought I’d share that nugget with the world in general. It occurred to me that perhaps I should adopt an annual injury ploy as the doctor didn’t make me do the dreaded step-up-on-the-chair-to-see-if-you’re-fit test, on account of my unfortunate ankle. But on second thoughts… On a related theme, those wonderful people [...]
The holiday from hell?
Published August 20th, 2007 in Diving, Family, Holidays and Islands. 2 CommentsSuperfluous to requirements on holiday:-
Shorts
Cropped trousers
Sun hats
Rounders bat
My crutches!
Would have been useful:-
More fleeces
More waterproofs
GP2’s current wetsuit (ie not the one he grew out of 2 years ago)
More warm things for under my drysuit
Wooly hats
Flask.
But I’m glad we left at home:-
The tent.
I’m sure you get the idea. On our last two holidays on Coll we experienced weather [...]
A secret handshake?
Published August 9th, 2007 in Blogging, Boys, Edinburgh, Islands and broken ankle. 6 CommentsLittlemummy, Mother at Large and Guineapigmum met up for coffee today at Victor Hugo’s. Perhaps there should be a special handshake for the secret - or very public - world of bloggers. It was fun to meet the faces behind some of the blogs I read and yes, we do have names as do our [...]
I’ve just been having a chat with Mother at Large over on her blog, where she suggested a Bloggers Fest to add to all the Fringe fun. This is not so much a bloggers’ fest, nor even an Edinburgh Coffee Morning, more a blogging mums’ coffee break. The Guineapiglets are playing tennis at The Meadows [...]
Standard Grade results are out and he’s done just fine! What a relief! I knew it wouldn’t in fact be the end of the world as we know it if he didn’t get the necessary grades - but respectable grades do make it so much more straighforward! He got Credits in the 6 exams he [...]
The boys are back, exhausted and happy. They’ve had a ball and the concert yesterday was fantastic, a really high standard. They’re full of stories and are both set on going back again next year, so 6 hours a day of music and a hectic social scene has enthused rather than discouraged them. GP2 went straight to bed [...]
Home Alone
Published August 1st, 2007 in Boys, Gardening, Golf, Music and Standard Grades. 0 CommentsI’m all on my own for a few days this week, with the boys in St Andrews and husband deep south on a school reunion. It feels quite strange - I don’t have to take anyone anywhere and can cook and eat what I want when I want. So instead of cooking dinner at the [...]
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