Posts by Jolisa
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I'm with you, Kerry! Awesomely huge change sounds good. Maybe we should be over in David Slack's thread helping write his manifesto...
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Romance Goes Tenting. With a clown. The mind boggles.
A jealous clown. And that is a tent-pole in his pocket.
Not to mention, Ronald Cocking? Yowza.
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We have always been at war with Oceania?
Kerry, I hope you're right... I'd love to see a radical reassessment of what school is for. And who it is for. Everywhere.
Am idly fantasizing at the moment about starting a Reggio-Emilia school in my front room (I haven't studied it extensively but am getting a nice vibe from what I have read). This week's school outrage: the art gallery field trip was cancelled in favour of more practice for the standardised tests. Gaaah.
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PS you took a class in sugar??! We are so home-schooling that.
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Amy, do you do mail-order? I got all excited about hand-rolling penguins (flashback to the forty naked ladies my siblings and I made for my dad's 40th birthday cake... that's eighty tiny pink marzipan breasts alone), but then just couldn't make the time to do it. And when I priced the raw ingredients, vs. a batch of plastic made-in-China ones that would do as party favours, it came out even.
Except for the made-in-China bit. Which I counterbalanced against the potential toxicity of black food colouring... It was an extensive mental debate, and I think debating was the real winner on the day.
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Also: I shall make it my life's work from now on to try and work Helen-Keller as a verb in all of my conversations.
I'm all ears. Let us know how it goes!
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Sorry, "atypical" not necessarily the right word, but you know what I mean.
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As long as he can manage his own environment & work at his own pace, he is okay.
Seems to me this should be some sort of human right, enshrined somewhere, but I bet it isn't. Sigh.
I'm so glad to hear about these atypical kids that by official measures aren't "up to scratch" but are perfectly capable of doing what they need to do, when they need to do it. Heroes, every one.
And it makes me feel better about declaring today a home-school day when my big boy missed the bus. Remind me to blog about our latest run-ins with the No Child Left Behind palaver, esp given National's plans for a new testing regime...
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That cake is so fucking badass I think I'm going to lose control of some crucial bodily function.
Hopefully just the salivary sort?
Kyle, duly noted for next year. It is my life's ambition to make a 1:1 scale cake of some sort. Maybe I'll work my way up to it for a twenty-first.
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Aw [blushing], I thought you'd never ask. See original post for newly added pics.
I just work to the client's brief, no matter how baroque or boring. This is the first non-vehicular cake in a while (let's see, yellow taxicab, helicopter, fire engine, space shuttle, moving truck, airplane, rocket...). Last year's "pirate island with exploding volcano and buried treasure" was a welcome challenge, as were the penguins, although I didn't go all the way like this uber-mom.
And thanks for the warm comments. I sometimes feel shy about posting family stuff - Soft News, as it were - but y'all make it so worthwhile.
Still laughing at the three-legged donkey too!