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“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
- Ella Fitzgerald.
I’ve always been good at giving up.  First came ballet and horseriding, then meat, and church and God.  At times I’ve given up trying, given up my self respect.  [...]

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I haven’t been this excited since my Mum bought me a Cindy doll in 1988.
Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are is my favourite book of all time.  My Granddad bought me it when I was five years old, and a few months later I had listened to the story so many times that I [...]

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The school I work in has started introducing The Creative Curriculum.  To cut a long story short, let me explain..
The Creative Curriculum is a thematic approach to learning and teaching, designed to support children’s natural curiosity and stimulative their creative abilities.  It puts a high value on direct experience and the learning experiences that the [...]

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Have The T-Shirt’s recent post has inspired me!  With the dismal cloud of Christmas looming over us, I’m going to follow in her footsteps, and make a list for Santa!
This isn’t a list of presents I’m going to buy other people, nor is it a list of presents I’d like.  It’s a list of (mostly [...]

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It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw
The other-half had become quite accustomed to me not working. He came home from work to find his dinner on the table, his lunch packed up for work the next day. His washing and ironing was [...]

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie.
What were you most scared of as a child? Are you still scared of those same things now?
When I was a kid, I wasn’t scared of anything. There were no monsters under my bed, there were no skeletons in the [...]

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I am s l o w l y losing a grip on reality.
I walked out of my job after I saw one too many kids being left with fifteen year old students, with no CRBs, no qualifications, and absolutely no common sense. I saw staff being reduced to tears by a manager [...]

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…Sarah Palin, and her seventeen year old daughter who’s got a proverbial bun in the oven.
Let me just make it clear – I am not interested in politics, I couldn’t really give a toss who wins the election, nor could I care less about one scandal or another.
But I do think that so what if [...]

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I can’t believe it’s September already.. This year has flown by..
If you’re celebrating the start of Ramadan today – may you have a blessed Ramadan Mubarak.
If you’re not, keep this quote from the Qur’an in mind anyway..
“A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in [...]

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This site contains a (strangely, horizontal..) list of polaroid pictures of real people, each with a caption that states what that person would like to do before they die.
Here are some of my favourites polaroids from the site..

What do you want to do before you die?
My answer is below. :-)

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