Art Adventure – Really Colourful Pictures for Children’s Rooms
Are you looking for really nice, bright and colourful pictures on canvas for your child’s bedroom? Have you seen Art Adventure? I love this castle print (£48.00)! So much to look at and think about and make up brave knightly adventures about! They do personalised ones too for £28.00 and this flower fairies is just so pretty. Also, if you’re looking for a birthday or christening gift, perhaps one of these personalised...
Carless Whispers – In Which A Sad Keris Actually, Really, Truly NEEDS Her Car.
So just before Christmas, we learned the limitation of the carless life. My dad had gone into hospital at the beginning of December and on the 19th, a Sunday, my sister phoned to say the hospital had suggested we go in. When my mum died in 1999, the hospital phoned and we got straight in the car and headed right there. This time, we had public transport, a Sunday and snow to contend with. (Being close to the end of the month, we...
Poisson Rouge – Wonderful Website for Pre-Schoolers
Poisson Rouge is a truly wonderful free website for young children (to help keep it free they have an on-line shop with t-shirts and software and you can also make a voluntary donation). It is a website with easy to use, perfectly formed interactive learning games. The colourful illustrations/animations are delightful. My eight year old used to love the site when he was smaller but he’s now graduated to the more complex on-line...
Carless Whispers – In Which It Bloody Snows On Keris.
Snow. Bloody snow. Harry is about as excited as I’ve ever seen him. To him snow means Christmas. December also means Christmas. Snow on the 1st of December has seen him almost incandescent with excitement. Me? Not so much. Last year it snowed too. The most I’ve known it snow for years. I couldn’t drive the car. The roads were treacherous and I haven’t been driving for long enough to feel confident heading out...
Carless Whispers – In Which Keris Goes To The Seaside.
One of our favourite days out is to Lytham St Annes. We go every couple of months either to walk around the lake at Fairhaven or go to the pier and the fair at St Annes and it was one of the things I knew we’d miss once the cars went for a burton. It hadn’t occurred to me to try and get there on the train, but thankfully it occurred to David and so one Saturday we announced that we were off to the seaside. “Are we...
Carless Whispers – In which Keris takes on Mrs Thatcher, and thinks carlessness is genetic.
Just after David’s car packed up and we became carless (should that be “car-free”?), David read the following quote from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: “A man who, beyond the age of 30, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.”* Well she was just a treat, wasn’t she?! But I somewhat take her point. I mean, we can’t exactly consider ourselves a great success, can we?...