Flowers

We've got roses and other flowers too, thanks to the_magician (whose user name makes a nonsense of the phrase "the very kind nnn"). Biggle has already explored them for dietary potential.

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Best Lesson Learnt

Friday evening, we were encouraging (for which read standing over trying not to shout...) Looby Loo to do her homework.[And, yes, this is a despicable thing to be forced to do to a not-quite six-year old. I'd much rather she didn't get homework until she was old enough to take responsibility for it herself--i.e. not until secondary school--and it's going to be a difficult transition to go through to make her take over responsibility for it herself sometime later. And she's just too young to have homework at all (actually I'm quite in favour of the too young for full-time education argument too). But that's a whole other post.]

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So (in a pathetically obvious attempt a meme creation) has anyone else experienced one of those revelatory, world-changing, moments in the course of their education?

Sweet serendipity

The latest Shaekespeare Sonnet a Day to hit our inbox after a brief hiatus caused by new server woes, begins:

Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault.

How splendidly fortuitous!