I have been thinking for a while about starting a new blog to post specifically about teaching the Catholic faith to toddlers and preschoole...

I have been using iPlayer to catch up with various TV programmes I missed over Easter. One was a new BBC documentary about the Shroud of Tur...

I promised you trivia, and it doesn't get much more trivial than this. Yellow music to go with yesterday's yellow list ... Big Yello...

Am I the only person who suffers from reader's block? There I am, reading away happily for a while, when wham! Along comes the wrong boo...

I haven't done one of these for a while, so here, for spring, are thirteen yellow things I like ... Daffodils - my favourite flowers But...

For the last few months I have been using this space on top of a storage unit in the sitting room for a liturgical / seasonal display. I...

Getting ready (note carefully applied back-to-front hat) Time to go! What do you mean, I can't go for a walk if I'm not dressed? Wh...

Not from me - I'm not feeling particularly reflective this year - but from Jennifer at Et Tu? , who reflects on her experience of the Eu...

And you can add consistent to those qualities. I did the same quiz two years ago and got the same result. HT: Theresa at LaPaz Home Learn...

Palm Sunday Woefully unprepared for Holy Week. Also woefully unprepared for Star and best-friend-F. I find myself in the sad position of fin...

This is a first for me .... a WHITE Easter. At least the Daffodils match my spring theme! May you have a happy and blessed Easter season.

Palm Sunday tomorrow and the beginning of Holy Week. I am not planning to blog any more until Easter. I am planning to pray rather more tha...

This post by Amy Welborn on introverted parents of extroverted children got Melanie thinking about parenting her extroverted toddler , whic...

Following a brainstorming session at the 4 Real Learning bulletin boards, I have put together a web page with suggestions for making a Rosar...

We have been on a roll with good picture books lately. Ten Seeds by Ruth Brown is a reverse counting book with a difference, combining the ...

My love affair with Google Calendar deepens. I have made two new discoveries. 1. Google Calendars can easily be imported into iCal. That me...

Your type is : ENTP —The “Independence” Mother “When I held my babies, I al...

A snippet I discovered at the museum yesterday, where there is a section on the history of Buckinghamshire lace ... Saint Catherine is the p...

Please say a prayer or two for Melanie , in labour with her second baby. Her waters have broken but contractions have stalled. Pray that the...

Little Cherub and I finally took last week's postponed trip to the Buckinghamshire County Museum . She had a ball! We went by bus, whic...