Funny thing, synchronicity. First guineapigmum writes about how much the choice (and maybe quality) of literature set texts has changed since her day. And then someone casually threw the phrase ‘reciprocal reading’ into conversation in such a way that had me scurrying off to Google. So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the [...]
Archive for April, 2008
We don’t get much chance for big self-indulgence, here in the Soup household, but that makes you enjoy little treats all the more. In the midst of the usual busy-busyness of a family weekend we’ve rather enjoyed ourselves with a bit of what we fancied.
We took out one of these ‘free’ trials for DVD rentals, [...]
Landing the Helicopter of Children on the Front Garden of Time
Published April 22nd, 2008 in Uncategorized. 4 CommentsMuch has been made in the news recently of the romantic/profligate activities of Prince William, landing a Chinook helicopter on his girlfriend’s lawn. I’m not looking for a grand gesture, but Fathersoup, who has a very fleeting knowledge of military aircraft from his life Before Me, squinted along the garden and announced that if I [...]
Just checked the term dates sheet, and today is a day off school because it’s an Edinburgh holiday, not an in-service day.
So how come there are so many teachers posting to Edubuzz school blogs today?
Either:
- You’re a terribly committed bunch who can’t bear to be away from your jobs for even one extra day
- You don’t [...]
Nobody told me that:
Good art isn’t always neat
Never risking wasting materials means never having the chance to experiment
Realism has it place, but good art doesn’t always look real
At least, nobody ever told me that early enough. And the artists who could have shown me - like Rembrandt above - I didn’t get to know until too late.
Now [...]
I wasn’t much looking forward to the Easter holidays. Amusing x-number of Offspring over two and a half weeks of unpredictable spring weather felt as if it was going to be a considerable undertaking.
But we’ve really enjoyed ourselves. We’ve always had lots to do, and the days have rocketed past. It was astonishing how quickly [...]
I was having an off-site chat with guineapigmum about the joys of dealing with the mounds of kids’ outgrown clutter that fill our homes and I mentioned the GreenMetropolis website as a great way of finding loving homes for surplus books. So here’s that info I promised you, gpm!
GreenMetropolis ‘recycle’ books and make a donation to the Woodland [...]
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