Apparently that is my sobriquet amongst GP1’s friends, due in part to my whimsical tendency to insist that he occasionally tears himself away from the X Box to do his homework (well I try) and in part to my - sorry, our - bizarre and totally unreasonable refusal to allow TVs, games machines or computers in [...]
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Onwards and upwards
Published October 15th, 2008 in Boys, Highers, School and Standard Grades. 4 CommentsStandard Grades seemed so simple. Were they ever an issue? Did I ever worry that GP1 might not be working hard enough? Surely not. The fact that GP2 is sitting his SGs this year is really just incidental. Because, dear reader, we have Highers looming. I have written very little about GP1 and his meandering [...]
To boldly go
Published September 10th, 2008 in Boys, Marine biology, Miscellaneous stuff and School. 4 CommentsRead in younger son’s physics homework the other day: “The bench moves you fastly to the start and then slowly back through the…”
Nothing to do with hadrons or black holes, fortunately.
Me: “There’s no such word as ‘fastly’.”
Him: “Yes there is. What’s wrong with fastly?”
Me: “The word’s ‘fast’. But that doesn’t really work [...]
Guineapigs
Published August 14th, 2008 in Highers, SQA, School, Standard Grades and Teachers. 2 CommentsIt was the end of June and so the end of term when I found myself reminded of the reason why I adopted Guineapigmum as my nom de blog. Three years ago (was it really that long ago?) the school decided to bring the Standard Grade exams forward a year. The students would choose their 8 [...]
Tutors - help!
Published June 27th, 2008 in Boys, East Lothian, Edinburgh, SQA and School. 0 CommentsSchool’s out. It’s the last day of term. Yay!
But there’s a small problem, and I know I’m probably too late to post this. Everyone’s suddenly on holiday but we need to find a tutor for English Higher for next term. Can anyone in the East Lothian/Edinburgh area point me in the direction of anyone? So [...]
Protective? Or overprotective?
Published June 11th, 2008 in Blogging, Boys, Communication, Family and School. 10 Comments“You’re an overprotective mum. ”
“No I’m not, I’m just interested. Do you know all the people on your contact lists?”
“Of course I do. Do you think I’m stupid?”
“Well, anyone can see those pictures you’ve put on.”
“No they can’t. It’s private. And I haven’t put my surname, or my [...]
The personal touch
Published May 22nd, 2008 in Boys, Communication, Highers, SQA, School, Standard Grades, Teachers and Work experience. 2 CommentsSo there we are. External exams are over for another year. Next year will be the big one - GP1/Highers (I’m trembling and pale at the prospect) with GP2/Standard Grades (an entirely different proposition). This year, though, was a relative breeze.
First up there was SVS. Once I’d got my head round the fact that
When my tall, laid back (read “idle”), 15 year old son comes in from school each day, the conversation generally takes this pattern:-
Me: “How was school today?”
Him: “Boring”.
Me: “Do anything interesting?”
Him: “Nope” as he disappears into his bedroom to change in preparation for adopting the lounging position in [...]
Ocean Youth Trust
Published March 19th, 2008 in Boys, Ocean Youth Trust, Out & about and School. 2 CommentsI’m not a great believer in the children missing school for any reason. They really have to be close to death before they can stay home sick and it takes a family wedding to get them the last day of term off. But they’re both taking a week out in April to go with the [...]
Oh dear. That was the scoreline at the end of GP2’s first ever rugby match last Sunday. It wasn’t the team’s first match, despite what the scoreline might suggest. But they were playing a team from Gala, in the Borders, and, as you’ll all know, Borders lads are farmers’ sons and built like tractors. Or [...]
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