Pop-up Christmas Cards

Just in case any of you out there would like to make some pop-up festive cards here’s how.

Unfold the card and re-fold it only on the long axis…

Now the tricky bit…

Decoration time…

Just the front of the card to go…

All the decorating pieces for cut-out figures and front designs can be found in the following file.
designs [...]

Hoorah! (well, sort of)

I saw this snippet on the BBC website and could not help but smile. Pedant, me? Guilty. That damn aisle-notice has been doing my head in for years too!
I am pleased that The Plain English Campaign scored a small victory here even if Tesco have avoided the ‘less / fewer’ wording by copping-out and renaming [...]

More origami books

For me the Christmas holidays are all about catching up with friends who I have neglected so woefully during term time. One such friend is Nicky who teaches in a school for students with special educational needs here in Rotherham. Chatting with her yesterday, she described a rather excellent lesson on myths and legends that [...]

Bleak Expectations

Seldom have I laughed out loud more at a radio programme than at BBC Radio 4’s Dickensian parody, Bleak Expectations.

For those of you that haven’t heard it, hurry along to the BBC’s ‘listen again’ service and enjoy half an hour of silliness at the expense of Mr Dickens. For a flavour of what to expect, [...]

Rotherham Open Arts Festival 2007

I came across this new site on my net travels today. It promotes this year’s autumn festival of events here in Rotherham. This is in addition to the Rotherham Show and The Diversity Festival (8th & 9th September). I heartily recommend all of them especially to those folk who fight to stop their faces from [...]

If everyone did this…

This one is for fellow hot-beverage-a-holic, Judith (the woman who put the ‘tea’ in teacher!), and for all you folk out there that know ‘we should only boil as much water as we need but hey, that means I have to fill my kettle more frequently which means walking more often and…”
I heard about this [...]

Tessellate to learn

I have to thank Mary Walker for this one. She alerted me to a freeware program that has huge potential for developing learning activities. It goes by the not-so-catchy name of Formulator Tarsia and is developed by the Hermitech Laboratory of Mathematical and Modeling (sic) Software. A direct download link to the program can be [...]

Grammar guide

Do not be too quick to judge this website by its simplistic layout: it is an absolutely wonderful reference tool for everything you ever wanted to know about English grammar. It also contains some rather handy quizzes and a hilarious section on the solecisms of George W. Bush,
President of the United States. Great fun!

Make them laugh

I spotted this link in the BBC’s ‘Click’ programme and thought it was worth sharing. It’s a site devoted to poems, jokes and monologues from comic experts of yesteryear compiled by Paul Wilkinson.
I have to admit that chuckles were followed by guffaws as I read some of my favourite pieces on the site. It seems [...]

Guestbook

Oh what fun! I have just found the “add a guestbook” thingy and made a new page. I know, I know, I should get out more.
Go on, make my day by adding a pin to the map.