Education

Return of the not so phantom menace.

by Penbleth on Friday 4 May, 2012

What an odd week. After months of fairly consistently good behaviour 13 has been such a rascal this week. We had the saga on Tuesday of the child who wouldn’t come home. Then it appears that yesterday she wouldn’t get OFF the bus when she got to school. Stroppy doesn’t begin to describe her some [...]

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Decisions on a see-saw.

by Penbleth on Wednesday 2 May, 2012

  Yesterday started out pretty nicely. I was home, I had time, the day was mine to do with as I pleased. Well, as long as I got all the house stuff done but let’s pretend we don’t have to do that, sooooo dull. Around the time I was expecting 13 to return from school [...]

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The one where she actually goes to school.

by Penbleth on Wednesday 19 October, 2011

YAY! What? I’m allowed to be excited. Her eyelid is the right size, if a little red, the minibus turned up, after a couple of ‘phone calls to check it was coming and off she went. Now to ponder how someone can say the number they gave you is right when the automated message from [...]

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So, now that we have a cause is there ANY chance of a cure?

by Penbleth on Tuesday 18 October, 2011

Last week the saga of 13′s eye entered its millionth rerun. Okay, maybe that is an exaggeration but not by much, however, treatment was sought and seemed to work. In fact, although Hub was sceptical over the strength of the dose the antibiotics worked wonders. It isn’t often you can see an improvement in the [...]

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The one where plans and “aft gang aglay” come to mind.

by Penbleth on Tuesday 11 October, 2011

So I have started a course. I have made a lot of progress. I have an essay to write. I have notes, I have research, I have the “when IS that deadline, could I procrastinate longer?” I have the, “no, I AM going to write this up today and then it will have time to [...]

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