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It is Good Friday and I have been taken back to my, what feels quite recent but isn’t really, headship days. The trip down memory lane came via a post about hot cross buns! I love them and commented that they are one Easter tradition that I continue at home. That, and a small Easter egg of course. I was […]
Read moreIs Christmas all it’s cracked up to be?
Read moreI don’t know what it is especially but I do not like Halloween and I do not like children being involved in it. When I was a youngster we didn’t acknowledge it. We knew it happened over in America and that gave it some appeal but it was only as onlookers. I suppose the surfeit of the ‘Halloween’ genre of […]
Read moreHalloween seems to have become a festival on our calendar. Should it? Is it right to encourage young children to be violent and blood thirsty?
Read moreAs she was having a well-earned week off for half term, Tara of the Gallery fame left us some thinking time for this week’s theme. It is ‘Show Me the Funny’. It is a photo of me with Eric Morcambe! No, not the real one because sadly he died in 1984. No, it is of me at his magnificent bronze […]
Read moreThis is the last week for our Alphabe Rainbow Summer School. That means we are looking at Violet. For me, Violet is not about a colour but a wonderful person. She was my father’s sister which made her my aunt-my only aunt. She was the matriarch of the family & as she had two children with five children between them, […]
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