Ted’s end of year report came home yesterday and with it his “End of Key Stage 1 Teacher Assessment” results:
Speaking and Listening W
Reading W
Writing W
Mathematics W
Science W
(ps, “W” means working below Level 1)
It’s good to see that having a profound learning disability does not bar one from the opportunity to participate in this keystone of the government’s educational policy.
is something I am rubbish at (maybe because i am not very skilled at photography generally)
Here’s an example.
Well, it’s not very good is it? Anyone able to give me a few tips?
All the same, I am very excited about this project. I am making the wild flower shawl from the Posh Yarn website (scroll down the page), using posh’s Arabella lace yarn in bright barbie pink!
Words fail me The e-borders scheme
Although I do need to point out that discussion of this ranting about this at the family dinner table got everyone over the age of 14 so irate that poor T thought he was being told off for something and ran up to his room in tears 
I don’t particularly have an opinion about Mr. Goodman. I do, however have an opinion about this government’s ability to uphold the rule of law. In case you missed it, this comment made by Harriet Harman over the weekend sums up the whole problem.
The prime minister has said that it is not acceptable and therefore it will not be accepted,” she added.
“And it might be enforceable in a court of law, this contract, but it is not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that is where the government steps in.
And if you can’t see why that statement is unbelievable, outrageous, repressive, populist, frightening, undemocratic, probably a taste of things to come and quite frankly idiotic then you never had much regard for basic freedoms and liberties in the first place.
I’m horrified.
ETA 3rd March
Looks like it backfired on Harman anyhow and Brown backed away from her comments quicker than a ferret on speed (not that I care what he thinks, but at least that’s normal politics in action rather than some weird Alice-in-Wonderland 21st Century populist dystopia)
Able to whistle two notes at once
Can eat 2lb grapes at a sitting
Resistant to all known forms of hair cutting
Strong enough to pull a radiator off a wall
Yikes! Remember me?
Since I last blogged I have;
-knitted two pairs of mittens for T, neither of which fitted
-been to work loads (ooh, like 5 days EVERY week)
-baked a couple of cakes
-fallen off my bike twice in the ice (HATE ice riding)
-started singing Gilbert and Sullivan arias
-been to a parents evening for S and heard lots of good things
-been on a romantic and long overdue trip to London with Mr BK (well I think cemetries containing dead political philosphers are romantic)
-Started work on turning bits of my Mum’s garden into a veg growing paradise
Definitely feeling that the winter hibernation is nearly over 