Three words for this week HOT, HOT, HOT (over forty degrees Celsius/105 degrees Fahrenheit in the night)… seriously HOT!!! So hot that when we got up in the morning and plonked the kids in the pool and made them swim until they couldn’t anymore!!! Then we stayed indoors all day until it was marginally cooler, [...]
The Week That Was – 2.37
March 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments
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Se7en Review: African Animals A CookBook for Kids.
March 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments
It is official, March will be a month of cookbook reviews. It just so happened that I got some brilliant cook books from the library and we have been cooking up a storm. Twenty one new recipes tried and tested in the last few days!!! Now I mentioned this book in a previous post, Se7en [...]
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Se7en Ways to Find “The Time…”
March 10th, 2010 · 20 Comments
How often do I get asked “Where on earth do you find the time?” Frankly there are only twenty four hours in a day. And alas we have to sleep for some of them!!! I think what happens so easily is we try and do too much, we spread ourselves thin. And I have to [...]
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Sunday Snippet: Patricia St. John GiveAway…
March 9th, 2010 · 16 Comments
Another Sunday Snippet and Another GiveAway. As usual I have to thank Christian Book Discounters who kindly supplied the book for this GiveAway…
Now I know how you all love Patricia St. John Giveaways… It is historically proven:
Patricia St. John GiveAway: Rainbow Garden.
Another Patricia St. John GiveAway: I Needed a Neighbor.
One thing about Patricia St. John [...]
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Se7en Science Experiments: Very Simple Edible Science…
March 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments
After a week of science we needed some really simple science experiments, of the edible variety just for fun as the weekend wandered by…
Here we go Se7en + 1 Experiments: Please feel free to click on any picture that you would like to see bigger.
Ice Salt Coloring: We made a massive ice block [...]
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Se7en Science Experiments: Bugs, Birds and Beasts…
February 26th, 2010 · 11 Comments
When it comes to science our experiments are mostly observing and we are really just working on our observation skills. Luckily when it comes to bugs, birds and beasts we are not short of material to study.
Most of our science projects are inspired by reading and some of the experiments we did for this [...]
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Sunday Snippet: Top Tips, Encouraging Faith – A GiveAway…
February 23rd, 2010 · 17 Comments
Time for another Sunday Snippet and its another Top Tips Book from Scripture Union. As usual I have to thank Christian Book Discounters who kindly supplied the book for this GiveAway…
Here’s the book:
I love this series. The books are short, well thought out and full of practical tips. It is a series that deals [...]
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