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Quarter of a Century..

Posted in Love, Motherhood, Personal, Relationships, Teaching, growing up, men, parenting, tagged 25, birthday, Family, Life, mother, secret, teacher, twenty five, wife on February 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I am a quarter of a century old today.
(And coincidentally, this is also my blog’s 100th post)
I have done nothing I had planned to do before I hit this milestone.
And I am nowhere near.
I have done little I am proud of, and little that I regret.
My mistakes make me who I am, and my achievements [...]

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The Un-employed Un-mum..

Posted in Childcare, Children, England, Motherhood, Work, parenting, preschool, tagged Childcare, childfree, Children, discrimination, hopscotch, job, kindergarten, mom, mommy, Motherhood, Mum, mummy, Nursery School, preschool, primary school teacher, school, teacher, temping, unemployed, unemployment, unfair, Work on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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Everybody’s Talking About..

Posted in Childcare, Children, Everybody's Talking About, Motherhood, Rant, parenting, women, tagged America, Barack Obama, Bristol, Bristol Palin, Election, family planning, Get over it, Marriage, married, moms, Motherhood, mums, Obama, Palin, politics, Pregnant, President, Sarah Palin, So what?, USA on September 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »

…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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Before I Die..

Posted in Childcare, Children, Family, Love, Motherhood, Personal, Relationships, Sociology, Teaching, culture, freedom, growing up, inspiration, parenting, preschool, tagged Achieve, Alcoholism, Before I Die, BeforeIDie, Children, Clothing, Cultural Studies, culture, Death, Dreams, Drink, Ethnography, Ethnology, Family, Flip, Ghost, Grievances, growing up, inspiration, Inspirational, Learning, Life, Live, Love, Meaning of Life, Memoirs, Potential, Relationships, Skydiving, Social Studies, Sociology, Supermodel, Supernatural, Teaching, Tippletail on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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I dream a half dream.

Posted in Children, Family, Love, Motherhood, Rant, Relationships, culture, mixed-race relationships, parenting, religion, tagged Angry, Children, Dialect, Family, Half Cast, Half Caste, Idiots, Ignorant, John Agard, Kids, Love, Marriage, Mixed Race, mixed-race relationships, Poetry, Racist, Rant, Relationships, Stupid on August 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Some people never cease to amaze you..
I bumped into a girl I went to school with, in the pet shop this morning. I was keen to get the polite greetings over with, and just get on with buying cat litter. She, however, wanted to have a full-on recount of the past God-know-how-many years [...]

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I Saw Your Nanny

Posted in Childcare, Children, Family, Motherhood, Rant, parenting, tagged Big Brother, Childare, I Saw Your Nanny, mother, Motherhood, Nannies, Rant on May 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »

You’ve got to be kidding, right?
An entire site dedicated to spying on Nannies, and ‘outing’ their ‘bad’ behaviour.
I Saw Your Nanny – Report Bad Nannies
If you feel you can’t completely trust the person who you place to care for your child, then maybe you should be doing it yourself. If you can afford a [...]

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Boys Will Be Boys..

Posted in Childcare, Children, Family, Motherhood, Rant, Teaching, Work, behaviour, parenting, preschool, tagged behaviour, Children, discipline, mother, nursery, parenting, preschool, The Simpsons on May 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »

There’s a child in my class who very clearly has behavioural problems. He bites, kicks and pushes the other children, and sticks his tongue out at adults when they speak to him. His mother seems to think this is all perfectly normal behaviour, replying with “Oh, haha, boys will be boys!” whenever anyone [...]

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New Beginnings..

Posted in Childcare, Children, Family, Motherhood, Teaching, Work, growing up, inspiration, parenting, preschool, tagged career, Childcare, childhood, Children, employment, freedom, growing up, inspiration, inspire, job satisfaction, kindergarten, kindergarten teacher, muhammad ali, nursery, nursery teacher, Work on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Muhammad Ali said that children make you want to start life over. That quote sums up exactly how I feel about my new job.. It was a chance to start over, and I certainly feel as though I have and I do, every single day.
I get up at 6am every morning to be [...]

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