Samual's comments

Does Your Child Ride the Bus to School? - Blog Entry

23 Aug 2009 11:49 AM

Here school starts at 9 am, it is about a 15 minute journey to the bus station from the furthest part of town then a 5ish minute journey from the bus station to the Welsh school, its about 10 minutes to the english school.

Is Testing Homeschoolers Really a Bad Idea? - Blog Entry

22 Aug 2009 02:58 PM

See the thing about testing is that really it only tests someones memory, someone could write the perfect answer because they have remembered it, where as someone can fully understand the subject but as they haven't revised an answer they can lose very easy marks. I think coursework based assessments are better for seeing where abouts a kid is.

Does Your Child Ride the Bus to School? - Blog Entry

22 Aug 2009 09:20 AM

Here we don't have school buses, you just get a public bus. So you have to get a bus from where you live, to the bus station and then another bus from the bus station to a bus stop near school. Normally though the local council but a few extra busses on during school starting and leaving hours that go along the route near schools from the bus station.

I drive Micheal to school on the way to work, here most bus companies would not allow a child under 10 to travel alone and those who do, only allow travel during daylight hours, so during the winter they cannot get the bus to school alone.

What is Hemp? - Blog Entry

21 Aug 2009 01:07 PM

Since being young I have had quite a few items of clothing made from hemp, hemp socks are good, they last a lot longer than cotton socks. Hemp is a more hardy plant as well, you don't need such a great amount of pesticides that are required for cotton and it gives you a greater yield. Most of the baby clothes we have are hemp, our baby wrap sling is hemp as well and hasn't stretched even though it has been used for three children.

Does Your Toddler Fit Through a Doggy Door? - Blog Entry

21 Aug 2009 10:24 AM

We are putting some fences up at the moment, thank fully we don't have to be out of this house in the end of the month. Sadly drowning your kids is no longer PC, otherwise that lake would come in very handy!

Does Your Toddler Fit Through a Doggy Door? - Blog Entry

21 Aug 2009 08:32 AM

We don't have any cat or dog flaps, the new house doesn't have a back door though so when we have been moving things around there we have had to slap a child gate on as it leads to a little lake. I think it is a bit stupid that some one the size of a mini door is using a mini door is a shock to some people!

My Forced Weight Loss Journey - How It Started - Blog Entry

20 Aug 2009 01:45 PM

I did not mention your a1c in the comment I left. You must be confused.

Barbie Ban-Yea or Nay? - Blog Entry

20 Aug 2009 01:13 PM

All good where barbie is concerned, I'm not keen on bratz though. I can understand adults not liking barbies appearance, I had action man as a kid, but it didn't make me believe I had to virtually no body hair and muscles everywhere.

Love-Hate Toys - Blog Entry

20 Aug 2009 04:38 AM

I think it is a good idea, our children aren't allowed toy guns, knives or swords, we don't mind swords but giving a manic child a two foot long destroying stick, not such a good idea!

We take the kids to play school once a week, a little boy there has a toy knife and he goes around stabbing people with it, his mum and dad think it is funny and even encourage him.

I have a love hate relationship with lego, Jamie refuses to play with big lego pieces but he can't put the little ones together, so you have to spend ages putting pieces exactly where he tells you. Then it all ends up smashed up all around the house, so you are pretty much guaranteed to tread on some at night or it gets mauled by the dog. Lego was my favourite toy as a kid, I have a little car that you had to save tokens to, there were only 100 made and to get one I couldn't spend any of my pocket money for months.

My Forced Weight Loss Journey - How It Started - Blog Entry

20 Aug 2009 04:32 AM

You must measure cholesterol differently over there, here it shouldn't be above 5.5. At the moment I am around 170lbs, I'm 6' 2", I used to always weigh from 200-210 lbs as I used to play a lot of rugby so I had quite a of muscle, though from the numbers it makes it look like I was fat.

I've had a lot of knee operations and physio in the last 11 years, so no more sport and I'm not allowed to go over 180 lbs. Which with limited exercise I find quite hard, either hungry or putting on weight. I used to cycle until my last op, since then I can't bend my knee enough to peddle. So now I swim, only in the summer though or the sea is way too cold.