For those of you that don’t know, I am a teacher. I teach 11 – 16 year olds with Moderate Learning Disabilities and/or Emotional, Behavioural and Social Disorders. While I have to (and do) stick to the National Curriculum and the latest initiative thought up by some numpty politician in Whitehall when planning my lessons, [...]

I love shopping. It runs in the family, we get it from my granny. If there was a Shop-Off in the Olympics she would be a gold medalist and world record holder. Yesterday I was shopping for some books for the kids on Waterstones online (if my granny ever got the hang of shopping on [...]

Most days my daughter goes to sleep pretty much straight away, exhausted after a busy day at nursery. Most days. Apparently today isn’t most days though. Little Lady: (through baby monitor) tinkle tinkle star… tinkle are… night night mummy…night night daddy… teddy…two teddies… night night teddies… This carried on for several minutes. Not unusual at [...]

I don’t tend to wear many colourful clothes. Mostly I live in black, grey or brown. Especially for work. However, I love wearing stupid colourful socks inside my boots. Knowing I have them on makes me feel less grown up and sensible while I teach my lessons and do grown up stuff like buying a [...]

So, we have four months to come up with a name for our baby. Four months may sound like a long time to you, but really? No it’s not. When we were expecting our daughter, we knew from twenty weeks that she was a girl, so choosing a name became approximately 50% easier. This time [...]

One of the many presents my daughter received for christmas was the book Elephant Wellyphant. It may be my new favourite book, mostly because of this page: Genius.

“Uh oh. Nose. Uh oh. Nose” –  after waking herself up and being sick through coughing. “Mummy, MOG! Mummy, MOG!” – my 4am alarm call on Wednesday. “Painting!” – smearing pasta sauce all over the table instead of eating her tea. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” – refusing to eat any tea. “Home” – on the way to nursery. [...]

This week’s you capture challenge was still life. As soon as I read that I had flash backs to year 9 art and a bowl of apples. I was RUBBISH at art, and my fruit bowl really isn’t that pretty. With a nineteen month old, life is rarely still. At least until nap/bed time. When [...]

Way back in May, when my niece was a bump in her mummy’s tummy, I  started to knit her a hat. What a nice, aunty-type thing to do. It was actually quite a brave knitting decision for me. You see, until this hat I had never knit anything in the round. In fact I had [...]

I have been on holiday for the last two weeks so I haven’t taken part in the last couple of you capture challenges. This week’s challenge was peace.  Although we make sure we have regular family time, when you are at home there are always jobs that need doing/phones to answer/emails to read. Our holiday [...]