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Introduced my daughter to Earthsea through the Studio Ghibli animation, Tales of Earthsea, this morning. She told me that sparrowhawks deceive their prey by their size – they’re smaller than most birds of prey. This information came from The Bottle-top King by Jonathan Kebbe. I was intrigued. Is a deceptive appearance part of Sparrowhawk’s make [...]

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Kids had a great time at Whitelee Wind Farm this morning, taking part in a scavenger hunt with the rangers. Heard all about it when I came home. Daughter’s  results for the scavenger hunt were a bit of litter -  a bottletop something hard – a red rock something red – same red rock something [...]

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Heading over to Ikea today and was trying to think of somewhere to take the kids afterwards. While hunting about online, I noticed mention of the Clochoderick Stone, which turns out to be this huge (12′x 17′)  erratic boulder sitting in a field in Renfrewshire. Having thought, “That looks amazing” I promptly forgot to take [...]

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Moving on up

We’ve had lots of fun and games trying to find a suitable school for RT’s secondary education. Mainstream is just not feasible at the moment and the local special school is over capacity and struggling to cope – although they’re doing a great job and we had assumed he would be going there, until we [...]

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Today we were supposed to be having friends over and getting out to take photos and show them places round about, and then tomorrow, we were going to go to Inveraray. Instead I have a miserable cold (again), so had to cancel the former and abandon plans for the latter. So much for the Vicks. [...]

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Went to Palacerigg with brother and family. My head hurts if I have to bend down so I’ve decided against doing that. Makes it awkward to tie shoelaces but I’d rather trip than feel my brain trying to push through my skull. Got to Palacerigg along some rather wonderfully crunchy roads before we found the [...]

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Fun at the park

See family out for a walk, spotting ducks, geese, swans and even herons. See children have fun on scooters and throwing stones into the water. See son accidentally kick shoe into water. See family laugh, then fail in attempts to retrieve shoe. See son have total freakout because family cannot retrieve shoe.  See mother attempt to bring [...]

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Happy Birthday, Dad

Over at Mum and Dad’s tonight cos it’s his birthday, (Happy birthday, Dad!) then spent all my time discussing where various bits of places were, using Live Search Maps and SCRAN. Anyway, very late home, so the kids are obviously hyper because they’re so tired. Had tidied away all the lego, went downstairs and back [...]

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Daughter has brought me some lego creations as presents and placed them beside a CD.  It looks just like a strangely coloured safari waterhole, with wild dogs and gazelles and a strange box like object. Must be the Luggage.

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End of the holidays

It’s almost midnight, but right now, my son is packing DVDs to take on holiday with him. (We won’t be going on holiday until summer, but there’s no stopping him.) There’s no chance that he’ll go to bed soon, because his internal clock is all screwed up, and he never gets to sleep at a [...]

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