Killing a Fly with a Ukulele

"tonsillitis" The word "tonsillitis" means an infection or inflammation of the tonsils.  My little guys get it occasi...

Five years ago, I started contributing to the plethora of useless information filling the internet in the form of blogs. This was back in...

Today was a student-free day, so I had all the children at home with me while Mr de Elba was back at work changing the world.  Now I am just...

Greeny gave me a scare. A few days ago, he went off his food and he seemed to have stopped growing.  He got all slow and sleepy, scrunched...

Wow.  Monday is awful isn't it?  Well, Rex hates it. He cried all around the grocery shop while Buzz, Jessie and Woody made me say thi...

You will be pleased to know that the bus , complete with new battery thanks to a Good Samaritan with black-grease-stained hands called Phil,...

"Rurr-rurr-rurr-rurr-rurr-rurr-rurr-rurr-rurr!" That's the sound a bus makes when it's got a flat battery. When a bus ...

What is camp without a good bus story?  This year we didn't manage to steal a bus , or the obvious one-up from that: exploding a bus, bu...

I have read with amusement the Facebook statuses of many of my friends as the September school holidays started, saying how relieved they we...

I had a ripper of a swim this week! The big outside 50m pool was finally open so I got to swim in the sunshine, watching my shadow zoom alo...