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BOOKS!
I love books, I love the words and the worlds they take you to. I try and read as much as I can (which is less than I'd like at the moment), I share books with the little ones and I teach as much they let me to my students. Here are some of the books I'm reading at the moment.
FROM AESCHYLUS TO ATWOOD
A note on the title of my blog. By training I'm a Classicist, but by day I mostly teach (and let's be honest, read) English - so these...
Robyn
Feb 13, 20182 min read
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TO BUMSHUFFLE OR TO CRAWL?
A critical question for an almost one year old. The answer in this instance is to shuffle her wee butt around with daily increasing...
Robyn
Feb 15, 20203 min read
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BABY GEEK
That would be me - not the actual baby. Although this is a picture of the baby being geeked which I know is off topic, but she's so...
Robyn
Jun 5, 20194 min read
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BATTLES WITH PLASTIC: NEW STUFF
I got some goodies from Klean Kanteen Pip needed a drinks bottle and the Lifeventure flask I bought about five years ago has lost part of...
Robyn
May 2, 20193 min read
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THANK YOU!
An really sweet and unexpected parcel. I came across a box when I stumbled in through the door this afternoon. The afternoon had been...
Robyn
Feb 5, 20192 min read
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BEST LAID PLANS AND ALL THAT JAZZ.
Last week I was trying to do to much. Now I'm supposed to be doing nothing at all. You think you know what you're doing. You think...
Robyn
Feb 1, 20193 min read
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HITS AND MISSES OF A PLASTIC LIGHT BATHROOM
Great ideas don't always work out - this is what I have found out recently 1. LUSH Shampoo and conditioner bars - obvious right? Well......
Robyn
Dec 27, 20187 min read
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BATTLES WITH PLASTIC? THEY'RE A DODDLE
After last week's post, I looked around my kitchen and figured it was time to make some more changes. I've made a sort of pre-New Year's...
Robyn
Dec 1, 20184 min read
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DRESSAGE AND A TIMELINE
Ok, so it' s been a while since I wrote anything. Term started and I found myself mostly asleep on the sofa in the evening - but more...
Robyn
Oct 18, 20183 min read
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SUPER BUSY WEEKEND
Lots of being sociable and community spirited. Saturday was the street party - we've had one each summer for the last four years. It was...
Robyn
Jun 20, 20185 min read
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TEA AGAIN
This is the second of the promised tea posts. It is about my recently developed infatuation for Pukka teas. Look at all the pretty boxes...
Robyn
Jun 9, 20183 min read
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NAPPIES & NAPPIES
This is what I think of Kit & Kin The normal order of the day here is cloth. Happy fluffy enormous cloth bum. At least at the daytime,...
Robyn
Jun 5, 20184 min read
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ONE HUNDRED BOOKS
Another list? A list of a 100 brilliant books by women has just been published for this year's Hay Literary Festival. I had a look...
Robyn
May 26, 20184 min read
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TEA
Specifically the leaves. There are actually two posts I need to write about tea. This one is about leaves, the other one is about how I...
Robyn
May 6, 20183 min read
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TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND
Blake and Huxley. "To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity...
Robyn
Mar 26, 20183 min read
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WE GIVE A CRAP
Happy bum post arrived. Another eco parcel was waiting for me and Sally when we got back from swimming this morning. It was especially...
Robyn
Mar 24, 20181 min read
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EASTER HOLIDAYS
It is probably irreverant to thank heaven for the break when it is centrered around celebrating the rather troubling end and reappearance...
Robyn
Mar 23, 20183 min read
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BEAUTIFUL (FANTASTIC) BOOKS
THE FANTASTIC FLYING JOURNEY AND THE FANTASTIC DINOSAUR ADVENTURE Some of the things you remember from your childhood aren't quite as...
Robyn
Mar 18, 20182 min read
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MINOTAUR
SO, SO EXCITED. The play is cast, first read through was today. It is just fab hearing all the words spoken outside of my own head. And...
Robyn
Mar 14, 20184 min read
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INTERNATIONALLY AWESOME WOMEN
I'm a day late, but then so was the parcel. Women and books - what more could you want? I love this series. We are trying to raise a...
Robyn
Mar 10, 20182 min read
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SOME THINGS CAME IN THE POST
Husband has not been impressed with how many times he's had to answer the door this week... but then he does say he doesn't have enough...
Robyn
Mar 8, 20183 min read
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A LITTLE BIT OF MYTH
I expect this is going to sound snobby... I needed an antidote to the relentless and somewhat nonsensical carnage of the last of the 5th...
Robyn
Mar 7, 20182 min read
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A LITTLE BIT OF PEACE
And I finally got to try out my new yoga mat! For one reason or another we haven't had yoga for a few weeks. In the Autumn term I...
Robyn
Feb 28, 20181 min read
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THE 5TH WAVE
Humn. I find myself somewhat ambivalent. I quite enjoyed the film, but the book less so - perhaps it was going back over the same thing...
Robyn
Feb 22, 20182 min read
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THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS
JOHN WYNDAM Really good! I like to have the occasional author binge - the current object is John Wyndham. I read the Day of the Triffids...
Robyn
Feb 12, 20182 min read
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