Archive for December, 2007

Calling Byron Bay, Northern NSW Homeschoolers!

We have just helped to initiate a new Homeschool group for people based around Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads, Byron Bay and Northern NSW (that’s in Australia in case you were wondering…). Byron Homeschoolers involves unschoolers but is diverse and broad incorporating a variety of parenting & homeschooling approaches. If you are in the area or planning [...]

A Jurassic Park Moment

I dont remember much of the movie Jurassic Park, but I remember that scene. The raptors are small, meat (ie people) eating, vicious dinosaurs and they are loose in the base… i think the script went something like: guy: (loads gun) so there are only two raptors right? The third one is contained. woman: yes… [...]

How Many Kids… The Definitive Answer!

Sick of the dillema? Not sure whether to pass on the baby clothes yet? Finally here at the Parenting Pit we have established a scientific, fool proof method of determining how many chlldren you should have. Simply fill in the following information: STAGE ONE – ESTABLISHING VARIABLES Assign values to the variables below by following [...]

Elfed

Some good friends MM&W just emailed us one of the most tacky, inane, time wasting and plain old silly christmas web gimmicks that I have seen for ages… so of course we had to have a go too… click this link to see us get elfed and then follow the options to do your own. [...]

Hey… Look at that Dog!

That is what I yelled out to my family as we drove down a street in Launceston, Tasmania and saw the creature pictured left. It seemed like all my family, even my 19 month old son, rolled their eyes as Anne politely pointed out, “It’s a llama.” I still argue that the car was moving [...]

Square Wombat Poo & Killer Bums

A while back Anne popped into an Australian Geographic shop while waiting for a movie (about the only one she saw the whole year). She did not buy anything but filled out a competition slip… and she won a weeks holiday to Tasmania!!! So a huge thanks to Australian Geographic and Tourism Tasmania (and of [...]