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.

I am really really interested in this guy right now. So much of what i have heard about him is really interesting.

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!

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

Clwyd Limestone

Avignon to Croxteth

Mair Canny Tale Fae Aberdeen

Arthur Mee’s Cheshire

From My African Notebook

Norther Railway Enthusiast

North West Railway Enthusiast

Chambers Jouranl - 1922

How Babies Think (one of my favorite child development books)

Teach yourself Astrology

Calday Grange Grammer School

Assee Illustrated guide to the IEE regulations for the electrical equipment of buildings… (1966)

(HEHeheheh )  - so no not current

The Cassell book of the ford Consul

Start Now, a book of soul and spiritual exercises - steiner

Life beyond death = rudolf steiner.

We are starting to get rid. I am taking two box loads to home edd group this week and about 6 black bin bags of stuff to Air Ambulance Shop!

I recently wrote on a dyslexia forum

I am not a fan of schools as the child misses out on a lot of things they get to do at home… like camping during term time with home edd friends, swimming in lunch hours, playing in airport muesuems, spending time with a mixed age range of kids for days at a time….. the list is endless…..

Seriously, i think current schools encourage a pack mentality, nulify personal space and opinions and destroy a childs individuality.. but this rant is for another forum :d

Now for a percentage of children this is there absolute experience. I am sure, but is it a general experience? Is this why we are home educating? Or is everyone who works in the school system so blind and me not. If I am so off target, why are people so unsure about sending there kids at three or four. Why do they doubt doing it?

Round Australia the hard way.

Now I agree totally to the poverty and the charity book aid international however, what I also have seen is that those in areas which allready have good reading skills and the children have books are also given free books. Whilst this is “nice” it is also a great waste of resources when those same books given 6 months later to the children who need books, but have destroyed - due to useage - there original books would be far better used.

When we lived in a well off village and everyone asked there health visitor for the books… myself included i thought this is nice, and yes it was a lovely book, asha enjoyed it, along with all her other books! When we moved out here, onto an estate where no one uses the library, but the kids love books, we havent received anything.. nor have these kids.

These kids are the kids who need books given to them! Libraries don’t even visit the area at kiddy favourable times (3 o’clock on a friday once a month the community library comes here) gwynedd council

Mum isnt going to take the children to the library every week.. These are the kids who need targetting, not the ones who allready go to the library!

Vicki xx

Over the next few weeks I shall develop this post.

Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water:
Jack fell down and broke his crown
and jill came tumbling after

Then up Jack got and home did trot
As fast as he could caper;
And went to bed, to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.

That third verse

Then Jill came in,
And she did grin,
To see Jack’s paper plaster;
Her mother whipt her,
Across her knee
For Laughing at Jack’s disaster

taken from a chap book printed by James Kendrew c1820

The oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes edited by Iona and Peter opie.

Asha at Penrhyn

A photograph a friend took earlier in the year at Penrhyn Castle

We look after our most vunerable or loved ones with products such as this. Then some idiot spends

About the For the Love of God Skull
The Diamond covered skull by Damien Hirst is a continuation of the artist’s exploration of death and the way we react to it.

“For the Love of God” is covered with 8,601 real diamonds and has been valued as the most expensive contemporary work of art. Hirst spent about $20 million USD to create the diamond covered work and put a price tag of $100 million USD on it.

Update: In August 2007, it was widely reported that Damien Hirst sold “For the Love of God” to an investment group for $100 million USD or about 50 million pounds. Hirst is said to own a percentage of the diamond skull, but it was not reported how much he still owns. The buyers will be expected to exhibit the work for the next two to three years at museums around the world. The BBC reported that the investors planned to resell the work at a later date.