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I prefer the term childlike to childish, it had a more mature ring to it. To me I'm me. Determined, understanding with a little bit of a temper. I'm married and have children. I also have a brother and two sisters, I work in a school with various kids who need a little extra help, one way or another. And to all those people I imagine that I'm someone slightly different, depending on their needs. Once you read me I will become, to you, who you need me to be.

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Flint Lockwood.

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In about five weeks I will reach my 25th anniversary of driving. That’s a quarter of a century since I passed my driving test. Last night I received a hand delivered letter from the police. Duri...


It’s Friday. The end of a tough week at work. It’s Friday. I ran today, after a couple of weeks with dodgy asthma. It’s Friday. I’m being a bit grumpy with the kids. It’s Friday. I’m the only on...


Rich is home! Both girls ran up and hugged him. I’m just happy. Oreo, the cat, is in heaven, he’s her favourite and no one else will do 😀


It’s my dad’s birthday today. He’s 75 and I am incredibly lucky to have had my parents. Such amazing people who guided me towards an open and accepting adulthood. I didn’t send my dad a card, I’m...


Children’s books suggest that the weather gradually warms up through spring, stays warm during summer and then cools down over Autumn, ready for the chill of winter. But… The reality is that the...


I wrote this on Sunday night to post on monday morning so it’s written about Sunday morning 😀 R is spending the week at his mum’s house; she’s just come out of hospital following the second part ...


Usually our school puts on an amazing firework display on 5th November, but this year nothing has happened. I guess this is down to our PTA being a bit shit right now - we’ve had discos and cake ...


In the eighties, my brother had a girlfriend called Margaret. I loved Margaret immensely and we became friends too. On a school exchange trip to Germany we buddied up, we shared music and humour ...


I’ve already written one Nojomo 4 but it’s very dependant on a photo and photo bucket isn’t working!! So it will have to be saved as a draft for another day. Of course, that leaves me with a blan...


After using sausage based examples in my maths groups this week I really fancied toad in the hole. It really is the most comforting of all comfort food. Nicely browned sausages encased in large q...


We lost the fight for the educational health care plan. Now we have to work out plans b, c and d for Ts schooling.


Well, for the second year running this doesn’t appear to be official and last year I failed miserably! The year one topic, in our school, for this term is Superheroes and I have chosen my super...


It’s been half term and it’s been lovely. We’ve done very little and we’ve done lots. The best kind of balance. We visited my sister in London, along with our other sister who was also visiting a...


Lila and I popped into homebase (a diy store) to pick up masking tape and gold paint for a project she was doing. We spent quite a long time looking at Christmas decorations and having fun. Event...


What country do you call home? Do you like it? Any plans to defect? If you could live anywhere in the world and didn’t have the usual constraints (e.g. family, work), where would you choose? Engl...


Sunday runday - It’s long (funny, that typoed as lung) run day and I’m training to run a half marathon in March. Because I have so much time to train for it I’m having fun with the training, real...


Recently I’ve been thinking more and more about formal education, it’s playing on my mind a ridiculous amount. I keep thinking about how education has been inherently wrong since formal educatio...


I’ve been training towards this for 12 weeks, building up gradually until today when I did it. Yesterday I worked out my route (blimey, for those not on Facebook I haven’t told you about the tri...


We’re supposed to head off for T’s climbing lesson in twenty minutes but we have a major, full on, thunder storm going here. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE thunder, but I don’t fancy driving in this ...


… for I wrote a miserable entry and then disappeared for a while. The problem, your see, is that I don’t like it when I’m not enjoying life and so I had to do something about it. Not enjoying lif...


I actually got the package today, it was in my hands… I got it home.... I opened it… It was the WRONG FUCKING PHONE! Right make, wrong model… A model that is worth £50 less!!! I phoned the comp...


Last Tuesday was a day in which teachers from a specific union went on strike. T was affected whereas L wasn’t and so L had to go to school. My phone has reached a point where it may as well be ...


When I was at school, in 1982, my teacher read a book to us. It was all about 2 children and the scrapes they got into. Throughout the book we didn’t even question the gender of the two main char...


A very interesting thing happened the other day - something that I haven’t tried because if the fear of cravings taking over. But hey, let’s go back to yesterday. A year 3 teacher had a meeting ...


So I’m writing. It’s sunny and warm, the cats are living it up!! They are perfecting the art of fly stalking and actually catch the odd one! They’ve even eaten stingy insects - there’s usually a ...