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The Social Media Users Who Could

by Deb on December 28, 2011

I‘ve been umming and ahhing on whether to post this, because it doesn’t really fit with this blog. I know I do vaccine posts occasionally and it’s always a balancing act, but this isn’t really about vaccines at all. It’s about information, and if bloggers and social media users (ie you readers) don’t talk about [...]

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Christmas Answers

by Deb on December 23, 2011

A good way to finish posting before Christmas with a bit of Christmas trivia. 1. Reindeer are Rangifer tarandus. There are 8 or 9 subspecies, some of which are threatened or extinct, but as a species they are relatively numerous. Reindeer are the same animal as Caribou, just the European name. I never realised that. [...]

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Engineer’s Report: Gingerbread House

December 22, 2011 Activities

Location: Slab has been well prepared, very smooth and level on a hard substrate. Block is minimum size, house too close to front boundary. Floorplan: A simple rectangle with only one room and firepit in the centre for cooking. Entrance centre front is decorative only, 6 windows give adequate light and ventilation but difficult to [...]

Quiz – The Christmas Edition

December 20, 2011 Lists

Hmmm, science or trivia? Both? What are the reindeer’s names? Why is it abbreviated ‘Xmas’? What astronomical event is probably the basis of Christmas? What goes in the pudding and why? And what is the picture? Answers on Friday!

Holiday Activities

December 19, 2011 Activities

I‘m seriously out of touch but I know everyone is doing the Christmas Links post. So instead I decided to do holiday links, and include ideas of things to do with your kids over the holidays. I’m trying to go for some of the older ones, so unless you’ve been around since the beginning these [...]

Can You …

December 15, 2011 Activities

For us, our bodies are familiar and generally predictable. We know what we can do, we are confident in our movements. But this is something that babies and children need to learn. For my little drama princesses, getting a camera out is a sure-fire way to get them to try new things Can you kiss your [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Rubbings

December 14, 2011 Materials

Do you have any idea how many patterned, textured surfaces you have around your home? Hundreds. Trust me. Obligatory Christmas tie-in – use rubbings to make wrapping paper, just use crayons or pencils on butcher’s paper. Kidlet’s creatively entertained and personalised paper as elaborate as you want.

Star Answers

December 13, 2011 Earth and Beyond

I‘m back! Did you miss me? Turns out that when you have ‘minor surgery’ you should listen to the ‘surgery’ bit and not so much of the ‘minor.’ I’m recovering nicely, but I’m also starting the round of Christmas relative visits with children but without husband, so posts may be irregular. I do remember that [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Budgie’s First Egg

December 7, 2011 Life and Living

When birds first start laying their reproductive system doesn’t always get it together straight away and you can end up with some strange eggs. One of our budgie chicks is starting and she laid an egg without a shell – we’ve had this with a couple of chickens, but you can see how tiny this [...]

Quiz – The Star Edition

December 6, 2011 Earth and Beyond

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. What is the main sequence? Will our sun die as a supernova? Why do stars twinkle? Are the stars in constellations ‘related’? And what do you know about the picture? Answers hopefully on Friday!