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[ 7 Oct 2009 | 4 Comments ]
Games We Used To Play MEME

Nixdminx has started a huge meme with all the founding members of British Mummy Bloggers
1. The game I loved? Heads down thumbs up, we’d play it at the end of the school day. It was a really nice way to end the day and one of those sweet things you leave behind when you move up to secondary school.
2. The game I hated? Tag. It always seemed really pointless to me.

3. The games we made up as kids?
Obstacle Courses
We’d set a route through the park …

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[ 1 May 2007 | No Comment ]
Fifteen Things That Remind Me of Childhood

This idea was started here.
Here’s mine;

1. My Talking Computer
This was VERY 80′s and I loved to practise my spelling on it (yes, I was that sad).
2. Getting Lost
This was a game my Mum used to play in the good old days, when you could get a tank of petrol for a fiver. We would jump in the car and my brother and I would take turns of choosing left or right until we were lost and mum had to find her way home!

3. Care Bears
Yup cute liddle’ …

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[ 5 Oct 2006 | One Comment ]
I’m Still Alive!

I read a post today. I was going to leave a comment. As I wrote, I realised that my comment was running for longer than three lines. I read somewhere, that if a comment runs longer than three lines you should do an article on you own blog and link-up.
Here’s the article…
and a choice paragraph
During the eight years my children have attended this fine school I’ve watched one thing after another on the playground become “off limits”: the group of twelve trees constituting “the woods” (evidently trees …