There’s been a lot of coverage recently about an impending recession, the american mortgage crisis, and the rising price of food and fuel. Is there anyone who hasn’t given at least a quick thought to their monthly budget and looked for where they could trim some fat? I have, and I’ve also been [...]

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I haven’t done a post for review me for ages, perhaps a year or more - however, this offer really caught my imagination.
LVUTV
It’s basically a website that has collated the information of colleges across America into an easy digestible format for prospective students. Students can study the wealth of information and make comparisons before [...]

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I’ve been tagged. I’m going to change the rules to suit myself slightly;
a) I’m going to take the first part of mother at large’s answers and complete them myself.
b) I’m going to offer two answers to each, one will be a truthful answer, one will be completely false. I realise this defeats the [...]

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Women Work Harder Than Men (and other interesting facts)

Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, buy earn only a tenth of the world’s income.
I found this fact to be particularly disturbing, although not really that surprising. There is still huge inequality in the developing world, however, that’s not to say we don’t have [...]

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I’m upgrading the backend of LittleMummy.Com, so things might look a little squiffy or stop working entirely for a short while. Bear with us.
*Update* - Aaaand we’re back. Still reactivating plugins etc, so there might be some oddness to go, but the database is upgraded and everything seems to be working fine.

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My brother taught me to play poker about two years ago during a home tournament with friends. I now play online at party poker under the nickname ‘Eccy100′ (if anyone wants to join me)* and just recently (the past couple of months) I’ve been playing at a local casino. I’ve made it to [...]

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Biologist turned child psychologist Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland in 1896. Piaget’s studies focused on the intelligence and social awareness of young children. In the 60’s educationalists developed new teaching methods from Piaget’s findings such as ‘learning through play’ and ‘reading readiness’, these methods are still prevalent today.
The idea of egocentric speech [...]

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We’ve been busy enjoying a nine day break from work. We’ve been out on a few days out, a weekend to a caravan near pitlochry and I’ve had some mixed results on the poker table (more on that later).
Last week we decided to head to the Time Capsule in Coatbridge. I’d been there [...]

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Last year I did a short round up of what I thought were the most appropriate gifts for a one year old. Here is my new version, especially for two year olds. I realise that I only have a girl’s eye view on the subject so jump in with extra ideas, especially for [...]

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I’m not really keen on the term organic. It’s become a little too fashionable for my liking, it seems to be as much about the expensive upper class image as about it’s actual roots - no pesticides, ethically produced etc…
Having said that, I do realise that the term ‘Organic’ is serving a valuable purpose.

The [...]

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