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Global footprint/earth day

Posted on April 22, 2006 by HHaricot | 8 comments

?calculate your ecological footprint
CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 0.7

MOBILITY 0.4

SHELTER 1.8

GOODS/SERVICES 1.2

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.1

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.3 PLANETS.

Last year, my result was 1.8 planets, so we are getting worse not better. our food has improved, as we buy from farmers markets and local farm store as much as poss, and also grow our own. the car usage up as I live further from work, and use it more days. The shelter also up – as Leeds house more modest.
Chris would do better, using the car less. Our house is somewhat larger than our needs.

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Books by women meme from jax

Posted on April 21, 2006 by HHaricot | 4 comments

Just BOLD those you?ve read, ITALICIZE the ones you?ve been meaning to read and ??? the ones you have never heard of.

Alcott, Louisa May ? Little Women
Allende, Isabe l? The House of Spirits
Angelou, Maya ? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Atwood, Margaret ? Cat?s Eye
Austen, Jane ? Emma
Bambara, Toni Cade ? Salt Eaters ???
Barnes, Djuna ? Nightwood ???
de Beauvoir, Simone ? The Second Sex
Blume, Judy ? Are You There God? It?s Me Margaret
Burnett, Frances ? The Secret Garden
Bronte, Charlotte ? Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily ? Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S. ? The Good Earth ???
Byatt, A.S. ? Possession
Cather, Willa ? My Antonia ???
Christie, Agatha ? Murder on the Orient Express
Cisneros, Sandra ? The House on Mango Street ???
Clinton, Hillary Rodham ? Living History
Cooper, Anna Julia ? A Voice From the South ???
Danticat, Edwidge ? Breath, Eyes, Memory ???
Davis, Angela ? Women, Culture, and Politics ???
Desai, Anita ? Clear Light of Day
Dickinson, Emily ? Collected Poems
Duncan, Lois ? I Know What You Did Last Summer??
DuMaurier, Daphne ? Rebecca
Eliot, George ? Middlemarch
Emecheta, Buchi ? Second Class Citizen ???
Erdrich, Louise ? Tracks ???
Esquivel, Laura ? Like Water for Chocolate

Flagg, Fannie ? Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Friedan, Betty ? The Feminine Mystique
Frank, Anne ? Diary of a Young Girl
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins ? The Yellow Wallpaper ???
Gordimer, Nadine ? July?s People ???
Grafton, Sue ? S is for Silence??
Hamilton, Edith ? Mythology ???
Highsmith, Patricia ? The Talented Mr. Ripley
Hooks, Bell ? Bone Black ???
Hurston, Zora Neale ? Dust Tracks on the Road ???
Jacobs, Harriet ? Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ???
Jackson, Helen Hunt ? Ramona/??
Jackson, Shirley ? The Haunting of Hill House???

Jong, Erica – fear of flying???

Keene, Caroly – the nancy drew mysteries
Kidd, Sue Monk ? The Secret Life of Bees ???
Kincaid, Jamaica ? Lucy ???
Kingsolver, Barbara ? The Poisonwood Bible ???
Kingston, Maxine Hong ? The Woman Warrior ???
Larsen, Nella ? Passing???
L?Engle, Madeleine ? A Wrinkle in Time
Le Guin, Ursula K. ? The Left Hand of Darkness
Lee, Harper ? To Kill a Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris ? The Golden Notebook
Lively, Penelope ? Moon Tiger
Lorde, Audre ? The Cancer Journals ???
Martin, Ann M. ? The Babysitters Club Series
McCullers, Carson ? The Member of the Wedding ???
McMillan, Terry ? Disappearing Acts ???
Markandaya, Kamala ? Nectar in a Sieve ???
Marshall, Paule ? Brown Girl, Brownstones ???
Mitchell, Margaret ? Gone with the Wind
Montgomery, Lucy ? Anne of Green Gables
Morgan, Joan ? When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost ???
Morrison, Toni ? Song of Solomon
Murasaki, Lady Shikibu ? The Tale of Genji ???
Munro, Alice ? Lives of Girls and Women ???
Murdoch, Iris ? Severed Head
Naylor, Gloria ? Mama Day ???
Niffenegger, Audrey ? The Time Traveller?s Wife
Oates, Joyce Carol ? We Were the Mulvaneys ???
O?Connor, Flannery ? A Good Man is Hard to Find ???
Piercy, Marge ? Woman on the Edge of Time
Picoult, Jodi ? My Sister?s Keeper
Plath, Sylvia ? The Bell Jar
Porter, Katharine Anne ? Ship of Fools ???
Proulx, E. Annie ? The Shipping News
Rand, Ayn ? The Fountainhead ???
Ray, Rachel ? 365: No Repeats ???
Rhys, Jean ? Wide Sargasso Sea ???
Robinson, Marilynne ? Housekeeping ???
Rocha, Sharon ? For Laci ???
Sebold, Alice ? The Lovely Bones ???
Shelley, Mary ? Frankenstein
Smith, Betty ? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ???
Smith, Zadie ? White Teeth ???
Spark, Muriel ? The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spyri, Johanna ? Heidi
Strout, Elizabeth ? Amy and Isabelle ???
Steel, Danielle ? The House
Tan, Amy ? The Joy Luck Club
Tannen, Deborah ? You?re Wearing That ???
Ulrich, Laurel ? A Midwife?s Tale??
Urquhart, Jane ? Away ???
Walker, Alice ? The Temple of My Familiar ???
Welty, Eudora ? One Writer?s Beginnings ???
Wharton, Edith ? Age of Innocence
Wilder, Laura Ingalls ? Little House in the Big Woods
Wollstonecraft, Mary ? A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Woolf, Virginia ? A Room of One?s Own

as I said, got from JAX. Not usre why these particular books chosen, as can think of other great female authors – Sheri tpper, Julian May, and I don’t think necesaarily my favourite bokos by the author chosen. so maybe there should be an underline for read another book by that author!

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our blogs are getting confused!

Posted on April 13, 2006 by HHaricot | Leave a comment

chris’s wednesday blog was about tuesday! I’ll make this one about wed shall I!!!

lovely day, some nice weather. SB and I got stuck into some singapore maths – adding to go over the 10 – ie 8 plus 4. It took a while, but she got there [and consildated it today] some she just knew, but some she had to work out how to think about them.

She also did her explode the code easily [or, as she put it, exploding codswallop!], and we read I wonder why the stars twinkle, and assorted bits about dinosaurs. She’s quite knowledgeable about stars and pointed out that there are blue giants on webland. it must have been ages since she looked at stars on webland!

We all sowed some seeds – nice big’uns so that BB could do it too. She was soooo rpoud of helping out. As I explained to an anxious SB, it didn’t matter she put loads in the wrong place, I coulsort that out later [and I did!] I obviously missed excess assistance from BB with the butternut squash, as some cells have 8 in!! – may well have an offer on butternut squash to grow to any visitors we might have in the next month!

BB is totally gorgeous, her speech is well behind josies [no, I shoudln't compare] but she is very close to speech. rather funnily, she has started to wag her finger back at SB, when SB tells her no. She is very considerd about her actions, and knows where things should be etc. She totally adores SB.

We all went into the garden for a play, some weeding, and SB helped Chris chop up some branches. [very ineffectually!]

the a gradual winddown and games playing – mostly snakes and ladders and UNO – before bed. We also read all the stories in the barefoot book tales of wisdom and wonder!

Not on our way

Posted on April 13, 2006 by HHaricot | 4 comments

Chris’s dad had an accident and in a and e. seen him, and i think he’s fine, but another xray to go. Hopefully he will be set free soon, and we will have them both to stay the night – keep my beady eye on him!!

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Had 2 glasses of wine

Posted on April 10, 2006 by HHaricot | 10 comments

so at least one glass over my tolerance!

Chris took the girls out for a walk today – so will let him do the blogging. I am fractious – hence wine! i had managed to lose 8lb on my diet, but all this stressing and chocolate and wine therapy has put half of that back on – sigh.

Oh well, read more from the usbourne encyclopaedia with SB, today she chose: art, diferent people and homes. She also did 4 pages explode the code 2 – she wondered how sam was so far ahead of her, and meanly, I said because he does it every day! i believe with Chris she did some singapore maths. She also finished her hama princess – somewhat amazingly, as she has redesigned it mumerous times. it is, well, faceless!
She was desperate to sow some more seeds, so we sowed the extra early purple sprouting brocolli ‘rudolph’ BB sowed some butternut squash seeds. Merry, when you do your allotment, if they all germinate, we may have some to offload!

Just gone and got more wine

More hama, and i permafed BB since she came home really. oh, and we read a new Mog book.They are having bath, and I plan an early night – though I do have a talk to write at some point this week.

SB back, and wants me to read more encyclopaedia – the travel bit!

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Posted in art and crafts, gardening, General, history, literacy, numeracy, SB-PE, waitwotchering, writing

So i am 37

Posted on April 9, 2006 by HHaricot | 11 comments

yes, I know I said it in the last blog, but it is taking a while to sink in!

Dreadful night, Shaula gave me some chocs, chris some books, SB some home made monsters – must take photo to add. Practical presents from the rest of my family!

More reading, playing games etc has been the order of the day. After shaula left, SB did some singapore maths – rather easily, adding between 10 and 20. We read about ‘medicine’ in usbornes childrens encyclopaedia, and hippopotamuses in the DK one, and a book on why ships float. So after all a very good HE day!

BB was particularly taken by the wacky wigglers again today when they were got out, and had a rather good go at trying to sort it out. Actually she has been totally gorgeous, chuntering and pretalking, and being quite a pickle!

What a lucky – if totally knackered – mummy i am. SB now making imaginative games with her paper dollies, oh and watched a programme about south america, that really grabbed her imagination too.

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Posted in art and crafts, Butterbean, General, geography, numeracy, photos, science

Sweetcorn Saturday

Posted on April 9, 2006 by HHaricot | Leave a comment

OMG, I am 37! How time flies.

SO to the weekend, well my friend Shaula was visiting, but not due till the early afternoon, and then she missed her train, so in fact we had most of the day as ‘normal’. Sb did her explode the code 2 without a murmur, and even went on to do an extra page as ‘a surprise’ – so it can’t be that bad! We played a fair few games – snakes and ladders, uno etc. She chose some books for me to read – and I sunk into the loveliness of snuggling and reading. We did some more Greek myths and legends and some bits out of her DK family encyclopaedia – greece and giraffes!

During this time, BB had sole play with the ideal blox – and was getting rather good at manipulating them. She was also blowing the noisy things and dancing in her own wobbly style.

SB and I then went on to do her ‘sweetcorn experiment’. We sowed half direct, and are chitting half. they have all gone inot the propagator to see what happens. SB is enjoying being proprietal about lots of the seeds and their germination. I would defininately like to set her up a square foot garden in our patch – prob not this year at this rate though!

Once BB was asleep we did some face painting. It was supposed to be egyptian, but after we had flicked through various egyptian books, SB changed her mind, and announced we weren’t going to have an Egyptian Afternoon after all. So I painted hers a sky with a rainbow as requested, and she painted mine a sea with fish.

Wasn’t I beautiful! Chris set off to collect Shaula, and BB awoke, so we played with the coupe car we sprung from Merry’s garage.

I think it confirmed to Shaula this was a madhouse! Shaula got to read copious books, and play pretty much every game we have. We did have wine though!

I went to uni with Shaula, and allthough we don’t see each oither much – as both working – she remains one of my closest friends. Perfect really! Shame the girls gave us such an execrable night.

Manic day

Posted on April 7, 2006 by HHaricot | 7 comments

well, I guess not really, but it felt that way as I spent the whole day wondering when my mediation request at work would be received. Only to find that it had accidentally been given early on Wed!!! Oh well. I do have a highly efficient secretary – winking at Su should she be reading this!

So what did we do, well BB was a pest last night, so neither chris nor I exactly full of the joys of Spring. Sb started her hama princess this morning – so far looking really good.

but obviously a way to go! We then read Hercules and Jason and the argonauts from USbournes Greek legends. SB and BB had a lovely time playing with the ideal blocks, sometimes cooperative and sometimes not, and also with the dolls house.

Today we did Singapore maths 1A – the practice book 1 was finished, as SB on a roll, and wouldn’t stop till it was. With such sterling effort I decided not to mention explode the code! SHe did it all easily and correctly, so we will move on to the next bit. TBH for some of it, she was already moving on – counting 8 by 2,4,6,8 etc. I think my general levels of stress at work for the last 2 weeks, added to some kind of ‘you are official’ compulsion have definitely skewed my parenting/educating style. SO I am relaxing! Will still encourage normals though, but not get so uptight!

After lunch, SB saw me potting up the plugplants we had got [lavender] and said she wanted to finsih them, so she did a nice job of the remaining 30 or so. Chris remembered to put a cd on – Louis Armstrong, loverly! Having played a fair amount of chase, and read numerous times that’s not my dinosaur, BB settled for a nap. I did a fair amount of seed sowing, and SB moved on to jump ahead on the ‘puter.

As Merry pointed out, BB has a weird spotty tongue at the moment, not seen anything like it before. wondered if it was hand foot and mouth, but can’t see any other blisters. She does have 2 of her canines coming through, and is very snotty. Anyway, she has played alot on the ride along, stacking bricks and dolls house today, as well as chase and cuddles with me.

SB now a lot better, but still very quick to melt and cry – which drives me up the wall. being as unsympathetic as my mother! Both girls are singing in the bath. it may amazre you to know, but I hardly took any photos today!

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merry you were right

Posted on April 7, 2006 by HHaricot | 7 comments

more Ideal Blocks are required – both SB and BB want to play and having a tussle at this moment!!

will do some flickring, as actually the girls are loving them – now being a bit more cooperative. Its nice to have a toy that 2 such disparate ages enjoy.

Category Archives: General

Global footprint/earth day

Books by women meme from jax

our blogs are getting confused!

Not on our way

Had 2 glasses of wine

So i am 37

Sweetcorn Saturday

Manic day

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