September 13th, 2009 · 9 Comments
So last week in the Saturday Spot I posted about the The Baby Basket and Se7en Pre-Baby Traditions… And one of our traditions is a long walk on the beach…
So off my family took me… the great mother person and family headed down to the beach for a tramp.
I love the seasonal-ness of the beach, [...]
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A new week with a whole lot of new days to celebrate.
About.com’s Calendar.
Crayola.com
Enchanted Learning.
Reading Activity Calendar.
Teacher Vision.
And these are the days we will be looking at this week:
10 August: Herbet Hoover (1874).
Biography on a nutshell from millercenter.org.
Biography from AcademicKids.com
The Whitehouse for kids – fun site!
10 August: S’Mores Day.
Yummy S’more recipes from Family [...]
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A year of blogging, and another week that was… If you want to join our tea towel swap… and we would love you to, then please please go and comment on our blogaversary post.
Last week I was bemoaning the wintry weather and this week we had glorious sunshine the whole week. Can you believe we [...]
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Tags: The Week that Was
I needed a super easy outing, very close home, midwinter cabin fever had set in. I could have taken the guys down to the beach for a run but I needed to see something. So we took the easiest walk in the world from Boulders to Sea Forth Beach and back again.
The walk is free. [...]
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Tags: Cape Town · Outings · Saturday Spot
You can see we are having a few more rainy days…
And here is a secret about Cape Town that you may not know, this is the very best time of year weather wise. No wind, just warm days (not blistering heat) interspersed with cold days to snuggle. And here is the secret of living in [...]
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So today is the day when most of Cape Town absolutely shuts down and about a million bazillion bicycles take to the road. In fact, so many people take part that it literally takes hours for them to start. Waves of cyclists leave the centre of Cape Town from the crack of dawn and right [...]
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Tags: Cape Town · Outings · Saturday Spot
January 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments
So we read some books… same ones as last week. It was just too hectic to get to the library and I couldn’t face the grumpy library-anne we had last week that told me it was such a burden to put all the books we read back on the shelves… we had to scavenge the [...]
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