KISS FROM A ROSE

Dear Alice, It was back to school this week, which meant back to peace and quiet in my home office too, yay!… at least until 4.15pm when Rodent Boy gets home. The really big news here this week though has been the introduction of Teacher Mum’s ‘Technology Free Hour’. I have given her my full support for this interesting new concept that she believes we simply have to try. She heard about it on Twitter from...

SONG TO A SEAGULL

Dear Alice, Tasmanian holiday – Part two On Wednesday Julia and Mike visited us on Bruny Island just for the day. Prior to their arrival however I’d awoken the boys at 6am to go fishing. It was just glorious; mildy warm, sunny and calm but most importantly, the fish were biting! Actually so were the seagulls, as Elliott was about to find out. A lone bird circled above us as Elliott skillfully cast in his...

TASMANIA

Dear Alice, Tasmanian holiday – Part one I begin writing this post sitting on a very strange, yellow and blue ‘lump of comfort’. It has a large wing on the right-hand-side and droopy dropped side on the left. It looks like a melted fairground ride or perhaps a piece of modern sculpture, but is in reality a very trendy armchair. It’s one of three here at the holiday house we’re staying in and I have to say...

COMPUTER WORLD

Dear Alice, If you are interested in getting some organisation happening with all your social media apps, then one of the solutions below could well be for you. I should add this isn’t meant to be a definitive review of these two free products but merely some basic information based on my experience to date. Netvibes NetVibes is the solution Teacher Mum suggested you try. She suggested I did too and having...

THE BOYS ARE BACK

Dear Alice, Well they’re back! Yes both boys have returned safely from their respective Summer Camps, grumpy and exhausted as always, and wiping out our peace and quiet with the ferocity of a small cyclone. It’s a bit quieter now, as Elliott is fast asleep on the lounge floor (it’s 2pm) but Tris is still running around complaining about everything. As predicted, he lost his Element hat on camp but...