Hi Somebody somewhere give me some ideas on how to motivate my 8yo. He is clever, articulate, smart, stubborn, lazy, demotivated, lacks concentration, unruly in class, has only a few friends and says...
Its been on Sky News today that a lady is being taken to court for not recycling. Slightly excessive action maybe, but I do think recycling is important and make an effort to recycle as much of my...
My normally, good but a little bit cheeky son (10) his friend (11) and a girl (10) were pulling moonys at each other on the school field, another boy told a teacher and to cut it short the 2 boys were...
Does anyone know of a company fuel card that can be used at any petrol station (preferably Europe wide, but Nationwide will do). Google only brings up ones for specific companies. I know they are...
My old teacher used to get us to go this at the end of term. Two liquids (one lilac one clear I seem to remember) poured into a flask and then mixed with a glass mixer. Find the end, wrap onto a...
Tom Cruises fiancee is to give birth under a vow of silence (impossible) in order to adhere to his Scientology beliefs. Now - on here we discuss PC gone AWOL re Muslims etc but no-one has brought this...
My son is in Year 3 and gets v bored in science lessons at school and then misbehaves. True they are doing boring things like rocks and before they did dietary requirements (not floating sodium in...
Hi Can anyone tell me what these are? There are a long line of crenolated towers - some large, some small - which traverse the countryside near where the M45 joins the M1. They also straddle one of...
With the growing waste crisis the goverment are looking at. 1, charging us for plastic bags from supermarkets {5p per back}, believe this is in operation in ireland. 2, Charging for household rubbish...
Anyone got any feelings on this? I think it will be odd for a while. A bit sad for the oldsters whose only real social connection might be a pint and a fag in the pub. Pubs are going to suffer. Surely...
Was just reading a previous post and it inspired me to ask.... What is your favourite batterd food? Mine is the battered pizza slice with the Fritter coming a close second. yum!
I have always thought that the reason I am not "marriageable" is that I don't have any of the qualities that men look for in a wife. So, men- be honest, don't worry about sounding chauvenistic!! What...
I had a cervical examination on Tuesday where they discovered some cells were reproducing too quickly so in all liklihood I will need these removed. (see thread below)....
When we were young (30 years ago) my brother had a book called Crazy but True which gave you all sorts of amazing facts such as "elephants have no memory at all" and calculations such as how to work...
Sometime last year my cat, approx 5 yrs old, just stopped using his litter tray & started peeing by our front door, in the hallway. He is neutered and was definitely not spraying, so we took him...