Tracing Rainbows

Last weekend, Jon brought Jess up to Norfolk so Rosie and her Bestie could have fun sans siblings. We looked after Jess on Saturday, and we...

I feel so blessed to have such a loving family. Yesterday, granddaughter Jess celebrated her 5th birthday down in London. She is such a char...

Today is my birthday  - looking forward to going out to lunch with Bob later.   We all ate the birthday cake last week - it was Jon's ...

A frustum [plural frusta or  frustums ] is the solid shape formed when you cut the top off a cone, or a pyramid, with its top parallel to it...

Because some of you were asking yesterday - here's the Nine Times Table Fingers Trick, I cannot find the originator of this YouTube, but...

 For Christmas, I got the London family an annual pass for MathsWorld This is a new venture, not far from Tate Gallery, with lots of activi...

A popular idiom meaning 'with energy and enthusiasm' . Yep, that's my approach, most of the time. Admittedly there has been dimi...

I know that my good Buddhist friends follow the Noble Eightfold Path , but this is different. When we were at school, our Maths Teacher told...

 Tomorrow is Pi Day aka World Mathematics Day. We may or may not eat pie. Last week was British Pie Week, and we had Chicken Pie on Friday, ...

Board Games are enjoying a surge in popularity. At my conference the other weekend,someone brought a stack of about 30 for people to try out...

Back in the eighties,there was a truly atrocious TV show called Triangle. It featured a ferry sailing from Felixstowe across to the continen...

  Just a heads up that next week [March 11-17th] is the second Big Plastic Count. I was almost caught out here- in 2022 it was May 16-22 . I...

There many verses in the Bible which speak about people "leaping for joy". I'm not sure if any mention punching the air though...

  February seems full of birthdays. Monday 26th marks the centenary of my Dad's birth [he died in 1998] On Saturday, Rosie was 8. Today ...

My hairdryer has been playing up. It is a rather old Revlon. Not as old as my little travel hairdryer which lives in the back bedroom drawer...

*Especially for your patience and grace. The numbers on this graphic are wrong - they omit the Leap Year Days. We've actually been  marr...

I'd studiously avoided Frozen, I'm not that keen on Disney films. This probably dates back to 1960 when my Grandmother took me to se...

Since joining the Green Living Group, I've tried to avoid unnecessary single use plastic. So I've been buying washing powder instead...