by Ian Addison | Jan 4, 2019 | General Thoughts
I was talking to a friend of mine about Spelling Shed and she asked for my opinion and some tips on getting it all set up and working. I then thought that it might be useful to have a blog post so that if anyone else had similar questions, I could point them here...
by Ian Addison | Dec 31, 2018 | General Thoughts
I wrote back in July about setting myself some targets for the end of the year. These were all based around my running and general fitness so as 2018 draws to a close, it makes sense to review them. Great South Run in under 1:30 (9min per mile / 5:35 per km)Half...
by Ian Addison | Dec 22, 2018 | General Thoughts
On Friday, the last day of term, we decided to skip the usual colouring in and DVD activities for something a bit different and my class took part in Taskmaster morning. For an overview, go check out James’s Blog here and come back when you’re done. The...
by Ian Addison | Jul 26, 2018 | General Thoughts
I’m planning ahead, but one of our objectives in September is about the children knowing the counties of the UK. Being right at the bottom of Hampshire, most of my children won’t have ventured into other counties so we were discussing how to make this a...
by Ian Addison | Jul 5, 2018 | General Thoughts
I have been running for the past 10 years with varying levels of success. Success at the beginning involved running all the way to the next lamppost or to the end of the road, then it became completing the first race or running a longer distance. Around 2012, with a...
by Ian Addison | Jan 6, 2018 | General Thoughts
It has been 516 days since my last post (Google is wonderful isn’t it?). In fact, since December 2014 I have blogged just 5 times. That seems ridiculous considering how much I used to blog and tweet. What happened? School. Life. A baby (now a toddler). So much...