Last week I saw Boo getting to grips with learning a new language thanks to Boolino books sending us a fabulous new book, The Great Español Word Search, a One Third Stories Book illustrated by Hannah Hutchings. This book is unique in that it starts in English, and then it slowly introducing Spanish words so that…
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Eight Things I’ve learnt in the Past Eight Months.
I started writing this post last week as I reached my eight month milestone of having Transverse Myelitis. I started out by writing about what I can or cannot do now, but to be honest, it was pretty boring. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to know a monthly update on my condition, even if…
Breaking Barriers – Never too Old
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, well I disagree, I don’t think it’s ever too late to learn something new. “Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest in 2013. He first climbed Mount Everest in 2003, at age 70 making him the oldest person to reach the summit…
Amazing Magazine Review and Competition
I’ve always loved magazines, right from the early days when my Dad used to bring home the Beano comic for me when I was a child to when I had Jackie as a teen, my childhood was a time when I really looked forward to my next magazine. My kids love magazines too, they spend…
Exploring Social Skills with Flummox and Friends
From the very beginning of our lives we are learning how to interact with other people, how to respond to a smile, how to talk to each other, how to ask for things and many more skills that help us to get on with other people. For some the learning is not as natural as…