Homework

I was reading today on TimesOnline Sarah Ebner’s view on homework. Both my children are in primary school, and Handsome, having recently started in the Junior unit (or year 3) brings home homework every Friday as well as a book to read each day.
Obviously I don’t want my children to have to spend all their [...]

Bizarre university initiation ceremonies, or, more Nazis appear in Britain – should we be worried?

The BBC (amongst others) reports today about the initiation ceremonies undertaken by students across the UK in order to be accepted as a member of a university society (generally sports society, but it’s not exclusively athletics related). It has a video showing a group of students from the University of Gloucester being lined up against [...]

Women on the game

 
Ha! Now I’ve got your attention…you’re about to be disappointed about the lack of ‘ladies of the night’ in this post!
I was sent an e-mail with this information in it recently, about the results of a survey about women’s video gaming habits. It struck a chord with me as I do have a tendency to [...]

The new and exciting happenings of my cold

So, yesterday I was joking with my friend Jo about my cold. Just when I thought it was clearing up, yesterday happened and I lost my voice. Last night I said to her that I’d probably wake up covered in green spots. Well, it’s my own fault then (as my husband said, a self fulfilling [...]