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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Sparrowhawk
Posted in books, children, family, television / films, tagged daughter, Earthsea, sparrowhawks, Tales of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin on September 23, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Air
Posted in children, family, tagged funny, scavenger hunt, Whitelee on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Moving on up
Posted in ASD, children, education, family, tagged Zebra Boy on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Saturday – scunnered
Posted in children, family, stuff and things, tagged colds, girning, miserable on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
Friday – accompanied
Posted in archaeology, children, family, Lanarkshire, places to go, walks, tagged country parks, Cumbernauld, Palacerigg, penguins, Vicks on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Fun at the park
Posted in ASD, children, walks, tagged autism on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Happy Birthday, Dad
Posted in children on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Day 15: The waterhole
Posted in children, imagination, photography, tagged one a day, Pratchett on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
End of the holidays
Posted in children, tagged holidays on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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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