Archive for October, 2008
Time flys buy when your a passenger on a train….
October 15th, 2008 | 
Author: I cant seem to find the energy or inclination right now to blog. I think i am just in soo much pain and Soo tired.
Asha is still loveing Gymnastics.
She is also enjoying her swimming lessons, especially now we have changed pools.
She is doing a week long course during half term as well. Its every morning but as I am paying for her lessons and this week is free! I thought.. Why not. Plus it will tire her out for the week, and as no one needs to go into the pool with her I wont be as exhausted!
She is still doing swimming with home edd friends on a Tuesday as well, which she loves.
She spent a day at the beach on Monday – Its mid october!
She is desperate to go back to Gwerin. I think we will try for January. Hopefully she will be over the food problems by then and I will feel stroger.
Steve is still looking for suitable work… He would like to be off benefits. Our OU course materials have arrived for L196- they look good.
I feel crap. I look crap, my balance is crap.
Popularity: 20% [?]
Our loyal goverment.
I have borrowed this from a home edd forum I am involved with. I think it says it all. I doubt it is totally up to date. The actual statistics are probably worse!
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than
600 employees and has the following employee statistics:-
• 29 have been accused of spouse abuse
• 7 have been arrested for fraud
• 9 have been accused of writing bad cheques
• 17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
• 3 have done time for assault
• 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
• 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
• 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
• 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
• 84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year
Which organisation is this?
It’s the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that
cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest
of us inline. What a bunch of b*****ds we have running our country –
these statistics tell it all.
Popularity: 12% [?]
John Taylor Gatto
I am really really interested in this guy right now. His thoughts behind the American school system are quite challenging. I just need to convince my library it would be a good idea to get his books in… Ummm…
So much of what i have heard about him is really interesting.
Popularity: 14% [?]
Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake Recipe in the World.
My thanks to A, for this. Sorry i dont know the source of it, but we did it at CLAS today and the kids love it!
5 Min Chocolate Mug Cake
1. coffee mug
4 tbsp plain flour. (it works fine with gluten free)
4 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp baking cocoa (i think we used less in the group)
1 egg
3 tbsp milk (I used soya with Asha)
3 tbsp oil
3 tbsp chocolate chips (optional)
small splash of vanilla.
Add dry ingredients to mug and mix well.
Add egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in milk and oil and mix again
Add chocolate chips if using and vanilla, and mix again
put mug in microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but dont be alarmed.
Allow to cool a little and tip out onto a plate.
Eat.
I reckon it would be great cut into slices, then turned into a yule log or caterpillar.. It certainly tastes o.k. and the home edd kids LOVED making it today!
Popularity: 30% [?]
Childrens Human Rights Violation.. UK!
Your chance to support the New Statesman’s No Place for Children campaign: join Philip Pullman, Monica Ali, Nick Hornby and others in signing our petition calling for an end to the detention of children for immigration reasons
Dear Home Secretary,
We welcome the UK’s recent commitment to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in full. In the spirit of that convention, we call on the UK government to end the practice of detaining children and families for the purposes of immigration control.
The government’s stated policy has been to detain children “only when absolutely necessary and for the shortest possible time”. In reality, however, children are often held for long periods in centres with inadequate healthcare and education. Many have been deeply traumatised by their experiences. This situation is unacceptable in a country which claims to adhere to high standards of human rights.
Our clear message is that the UK’s policy of incarcerating innocent minors must stop. Immigration detention centres are no place for children.
Submitted by Alice O’Keeffe of New Statesman
Deadline to sign up by: 16 November 2008
Popularity: 17% [?]
