The Wee ‘Un’s weekly homework for primary school includes a list of words that he’s to practice using a number of strategies. One of the strategies is to look the words up in a dictionary, then write a definition into his jotter. Last week’s words included neighbour, grub, reindeer, weight, children, eight, eighty and slug.
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‘Just a normal day…’
26 February, 2010
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We had a further 5-8cm of snow overnight, taking the depth of cover to 45cm. The drifts were much deeper thanks to the continuing strong winds, while the roads were treacherous with loose snow over ice. As a result, the Other Half was not surprised when an education workshop that she was to have attended [...]
Read moreOff to meet management expectations
8 January, 2010
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The overnight temperature dropped to -13.2 C. The council have not ploughed our access road since the last snowfall. They haven’t gritted it for days. The road between our croft and the village has been ploughed, but is covered in compacted snow and ice.
Read moreScrooge and his money
7 December, 2009
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The Big Lad as Scrooge in his school’s production of A Christmas Carol. He spent weeks rehearsing his lines, practising his delivery, and working out how Scrooge’s body language would work. It all paid off with a cracking performance at school this morning, although he had a few difficulties getting Scrooge’s fire to “light”. The [...]
Read moreAnd if I don’t have a mobile?
30 March, 2009
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The boys’ school has sent a form home asking us to supply a mobile phone number so they can text us with regular messages. However, they don’t seem to have considered that there are still dinosaurs out there who don’t have mobile phones. I’m one of them.
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