I have decided to have a go at launching a forum on FTH. Its essentially for anyone who knows us.
There is a general chat forum
One section for fellow OU students and there is one section which is for current home educators only.
Please ask to join this, if you are currently home schooling. Otherwise you wont have access to it!
Vicki xx
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Yep it snowed today.
Anyway, here is a picture to help realise exactly HOW cold it is today, but also how beautiful it is.
Asha spent some time on the field, and some time building snow men and throwing snow balls at daddy. He might put a photo up 
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A NOCTURNAL moth has become the first animal known to see colours in the dead of night. They use this visual talent to find yellow, nectar-packed flowers in the dark, but the finding reported in New Scientist suggests that other species also use colour vision at night.
Nocturnal moths were thought to find flowers by looking for bright petals against a darker, leafy background. Read more…
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Yep that is right, stalactites fall down.. and stalagmites crawl up.
When I was in senior school I remeber weeks of our geography lessons being spent discussing these things, and it was sooo boring! Last week the kids at CLAS had great fun playing with them, and asking questions and taking photographs of them.
I hope to take Asha tomorrow to the river to look at ice a bit more, but in the mean time, some information for you on ICE, Stalactites and Stalagmites.
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governement more than anything else, and that everyone who takes them should be locked up for ever.. Well..
Have you ever seen a drug rest tent being set up by the ambulance services? No.. Well they have.. the only difference is its LEGAL drugs.!
New Year’s Eve revellers in Cardiff will be able to sleep off their partying in an inflatable tent staffed by medics in the Millennium Stadium.
The sleepover centre has been converted from an emergency chemical decontamination tent to help ensure the safety of drunk partygoers.
Trained medical staff will look after up to a dozen revellers at a time while they sleep off their excesses.
The tent will be run alongside a field hospital and walk-in treatment centre.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7805431.stm
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Obituary
My parents told me about Mr Common Sense early in my life and told me I would do well to call on him when making decisions. It seems he was always around in my early years but less and less as time passed by until today, sadly, I read his obituary.
Please join me in a moment of silence in remembrance. For Common Sense had served us all so well for so many generations.
Obituary
Common Sense
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At 6 pm she fell asleep, at 9.40, Steve went upstairs, and this is her sleeping!
Just another book mum...
At 23.30 I went into see her, she was sat with ALL her books on her bed, and told me “Mummy I need some new books, see”
Now please bare in mind this child who needs more books has a 6 foot high by 4 foot wide bookcase in her bedroom… with 6 shelves FULL of books. Another 3 bookcases in the living room, full of books, and more boxes of books in the “library room” Which she regually can be found “sorting out”
ARGH… And I bought her a new book today.. Which is really very very pretty. Rainbow Sea, A sparkle book.isbn : 1740470893
Kids!
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Who are yours?
My Hero is my husband, who despite my anger, pain and frustration still makes me laugh smile and keep mobile.
Villians… Council employers everywhere who manipulate the truth to meet there own agendas.
However I couldnt agree more with this man either..
Peter Beresford, chair of Shaping Our Lives and professor of social policy, Brunel University
My hero is Doug Paulley, a disabled man who lives in residential care and who will not be known by most readers. He has consistently fought for his own and other people’s rights in and beyond residential care, taking on big organisations such as Leonard Cheshire Disability. Long may he do so in the cause of control, choice and independent living.
The ones that have really bugged me over 2008 are the people who talk user involvement, while making every possible effort to tokenise, undermine and invalidate it. No need to name names. You know who you are. And so do service users.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/12/12/110216/heroes-and-villains-of-2008.html
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We were driving along. We had the back seats down, as we had removed some pallats from the car this morning. Asha had her arm hanging down next to her seat when one of the seats fell back.. The poor thing was in agony.. Hazzard lights flashing, I stopped the car, mid road.. and flew into the back seat. Asha settled and recovered. daddy sat next to her, I got back in my seat, and carried on driving. We got to bangor, and asha was laughing again. My heart has just stopped pumping!
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“My mother says”
I shouldn’t eat that yellow snow….
I should learn the know what is good, and what isnt so.
My Nanny tells me what to do.
I ask her why.. she tells me so… I can have more fodder for the army, my son.. Now look here.. Your mother told you not to eat that yellow snow..
My Daddy shows me videos on u tube.. from when he was a little boy.. They talk about making choices and days before CCTV.
I look at him and ask.. if he went on the beach… How its dangerous.. what about the sand, inbetween your toes…
My Daddy says…
In the days before your nanny, we ate our food of a glass plate, and drank out of china cups. We played football in the road and we could buy what we needed….But now the goverment is scared, we might make an floating parafin bomb, so we all sit in the dark, and drink out of empty cups.. so they can build an army, to protect what they dont own. But remeber son.. dont you eat that yellow snow!
My apoligies to frank zapper
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Now have you noticed how we once more are losing our freedoms… balliffs, internet, contact point for our children.. database id, cards…..
Peter “Pete” Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer, political activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 50s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly’s “Goodnight, Irene” that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.[1] As a result of an anti-communist blacklist, his career as a mainstream performer was seriously curtailed. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a pioneer of protest music in support of international disarmament and civil rights and, more recently, as a tireless activist for environmental causes.
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First of all the Daily writes on its front page today…
Web inline for film style ratings….
then inside has
“mr burnham has take down times, this means that if web sites such as you tube or facebook are alerted to offensive or harmful content, they will have to remove it within a specified time once it is brought to their attention. He also saiys that minsiters are considering changing libel laws to give people access to cheap legal recourse if they are deflamed online….”
Saturday dec 27th
Then the same day the NSPCC claims
Web content ‘disturbing children’
The charity wants websites to direct children to help and advice
Three out of four children have seen images on the internet that disturbed them, an NSPCC poll suggests.
The charity is renewing its call for computer manufacturers and retailers to install security to stop children finding violent or sexual content.
Sorry BUT… get out of bed with the goverment will you and start facing the real world… More children are hurt in school than anywhere else in the UK!!!
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“mummy thankyou for my walking doll Its just what I wanted…”
But Asha you didnt know about them…
” I know mummy, but i kept looking in shops for a dolly with blue and black clothes, which could walk, to show you one”
What else can a mummy say 
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Taken from there 2007 accounts
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/includes/documents/cm_docs/2008/2/2007_accounts.pdf
Now I am not saying that fair trade isnt good. I think fair trade is very good, but i think it has to be a universal fair trade, as applicable to those who stand beside these charities in the uk.
Why can charities such as OXFAM claim fair trade, when they are putting antiquarian booksellers out of business, by gaining reduced prices at fairs, and online sales sites? Surely this isnt “fair trade”
read through the accounts… It makes “interesting reading”
Vicki xx
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Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had cancer, died on Christmas Eve aged 78.
He wrote more than 30 plays including The Caretaker and The Birthday Party. His film scripts include The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
His style was so distinctive, “Pinteresque” entered the Oxford English Dictionary.
I loved some of his works.
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Wll, if you cant do it yourself.. take you doll...
And now a slide.
Yes, we had a great, fun and lazy christmas day. Much needed, and great fun!
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On Christmas Eve, after we all had our baths, the three of us sat down to a big pan of stew, and pulled some crackers. Asha, and I then had a long story session, which lead to Asha falling asleep unusually early.
This is just a cute photograph of her with one of her teddy’s which she has decided to name Hoopy!
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Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
From all on Familytreehouse.
Asha,
Steve,
Vicki
and Mousehole.
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