Recipes - Microwave Flapjacks Recipe

Recipes - Microwave Flapjacks Recipe
Ingredients: Makes 24

175 g/6 oz butter or margarine, softened
50 g/2 oz caster (superfine) sugar
50 g/2 oz soft brown sugar
90 ml/6 tbsp golden (light corn) syrup

A pinch of salt
275 g/10 oz rolled oats

Method:

Mix together the butter or margarine and sugars in a large bowl and cook on High for 1 minute. Add the remaining ingredients and stir well. Spoon the mixture into a greased 18 cm/7 in microwave dish and press down lightly. Cook on High for 5 minutes. Leave to cool slightly, then cut into squares.

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How much time?

Watching Finding Nimo while eating more chocolate pudding than I be should eating, youngest one said "Mum does all water go back to the sea?"

so we turned to the pc screen and did a quick chat with pics about the water, where it goes and how we call it the water cycle. It only took a couple of minutes, "Oh yes I remember!" she said after a quick look here The Watercycle  and here  The Blue Planet

Now then, that brings me to the fact that HE cannot be measured in minutes and it also reminds me that sooo many people just don't get it!

A lovely lady from connexions, who is trying to help us secure a place for oldest one to do her exams, was helping me write a letter.

"How many hours do you do?" she asked followed by

"Well which subjects do you do?" which was followed by a silence and then a measured

"Well do you follow a curriculum?"

When I came off the phone dd1 and dh grinned at me , asking me if the phone call had been a tough time, grinned at me in empathy be4cause people don't get it and worse than that at times I'm sure some of them decide we do nothing, and even worse than that I think some of them get jealous of the time we spend together. How dare I spend so much time with my kids, not normal is it?

I mean how much time? ALL the time, which subjects? LIFE

Change

One thing I wish somebody had told me earlier on in my life is that nothing EVER stays the same!! The best skill we ever need is the ability to change with the times, change with the demands and expectations on us. I always have found it hard to change, I thought getting a job and being 'grown-up' would be some kind of permanence but it wasn't because the job changed at the whim of whoever was head and whoever was changing the curriculum for the gov't. It changed with the ever increasing amount of red tape thrown at us , in fact all individuality and flair was squashed for children and staff, but I'd better not get on my soap box about how the gov't have wrecked teaching. . . .

Anyway things change with HE too. I was so enjoying being the at home mummy, enjoying the awe and wonder of the world with my offspring, thrilling at their enthusiasm with every little thing we did. I am now finding it a whole new story, a different story , the changes have been subtle until now I suddenly realise that my lovely older one is all independent and less keen to listen to mum.

It is indicative of how well HE works that our lovely oldest is now determined and driven and positive and sometimes so independant of me that she no longer wants to do it the HE way. She wants to be in charge of her own learning and wants to go and get her GCSE's at school. She doesn't want to just go full time and take it how they want her to, no she wants to tell the school exactly what she does and doesn't want to do and she wants it to lead to her chosen course at college. I wonder if the school are ready for her? I wonder if her self directed learning witll be too much for her soon to be teachers. Certainly it will be a challenge for our lovely eldest to be told clearly what to do and when!! I wonder if she will put up with it or want to deregister again ?? I guess a lot of it depends on how grown up her teachers are willing to let her be? Will they treat her as a person in ownership of her own learning , or will they want her to just slot into the system as it is?

I know we'll be as nervous as she will be to start with, that is if they give her a place - that isn't certain yet, but I can't help but wonder how it will go. What a huge change to our life it will be !!!

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I just love how clips from this film have been put together with the song

smug home educating bastard

I'm asked why we home ed , or i'm looked at as if I'm mad (erm yes maybe).

I mention we home ed and people say "Don't they get bored?"

well all the answers, and all the reasons and everything we think about home ed are here in Grits blog.

Nothing less than brilliant :)

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as i mature

As I mature 

I've learned that you cannot make

someone love you. All you can do is

stalk them and hope they panic and give in.

I've learned that no matter how much I care,

some people are just assholes.

I've learned that it takes years

to build up trust, and it only takes

suspicion, not proof, to destroy it.

I've learned that you can get by

on charm for about fifteen minutes.

After that, you'd better have a big willy

or huge boobs.

I've learned that you shouldn't

compare yourself to others - they are

more screwed up than you think.

I've learned that you can keep vomiting

long after you think you're finished.

I've learned that we are responsible

for what we do, unless we are celebrities.

I've learned that regardless of

how hot and steamy a relationship is at

first, the passion fades, and there had better

be something ready to take its place!

I've learned that the people you care most

about in life are taken from you too soon

and all the less important ones just never go away. 

I haven't a clue who the author is, I just liked it.