Posted in Babies, Books, Education, Motherhood, Pregnancy, tagged Baby Bliss, Bach, cuisenaire rods, Dr Harvey Karp, Suggestopedia, swaddling, the 5 Ss, the Silent Way, Total Physical Response, white noise on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The other particularly helpful baby book Best Friend gave you was supposed to be an antidote to Gina Ford’s regimentation being the key to happiness. Harvey “I’m a doctor donchaknow” Karp’s Baby Bliss.
Unlike Ms Ford’s stick to the schedule first and think later approach, Dr Karp has a Theory about the first three months of [...]
Posted in Babies, Books, Motherhood, Pregnancy, tagged Gina Ford, The Contented Little Baby Book, The New Contented Little Baby Book on April 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Having been very uncharitable towards Jamie Oliver’s Wife’s Book, you feel you should point out the childcare manuals you wouldn’t be without.
It should come as no surprise that you hadn’t heard of Gina Ford before your pregnancy. Or, indeed, up until about seven months into your pregnancy, which was when Best Friend gave you the [...]
Posted in Babies, Books, Feminism, Motherhood, Pregnancy, tagged Jamie Oliver, Jamie Oliver's Wife, Jools Oliver, Minus Nine To One on April 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The dilemma of not particularly maternal women in their 30s who find that the whole biological clock thing is not a myth and has just caused them to throw a lifetime’s aversion to bodily fluids to the winds and get pregnant is that, frankly, they barely know which end of the baby is up, let [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Memes, tagged , Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Anna Karenina, Anton Chekhov, Books, Douglas Adams, Humanity, Jonathan Glover, Lev Tolsoy, Libraries, Robert A Heinlein, Russia, Russian literature, Snow, Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising, The Gulag Archipelago, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, War and Peace on October 26, 2007 | 10 Comments »
A while (a long while) ago, Reed tagged me with a book meme. Which I haven’t been ignoring, but just procrastinating over. It’s something worrying when you end up writing essays instead of fiddling with the blog, but at least I’ve got my priorities right (I always put off the most important thing).
Total Number of Books Owned – [...]
Posted in Arabesque, Books, Claudia Roden, Cooking, Couscous, Food, The Rest of the World on July 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You should have been reading about the barbarian hordes rampaging across Britain in the 500s. You should have been preparing lessons - this week’s topic is ’love’. You should at least have been scrubbing the bathroom.
Instead you decided to cook a Moroccan feast. It’s from your new cookbook. Arabesque by Claudia Roden. You’ve been staring longingly (and [...]
Posted in Architecture, Books, Britain, Culture Shock, Drink, Music, Public Transport, Russia, Sergei Lukyanenko, Sightseeing, The Rest of the World on April 23, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Having discovered that you had slightly misinterpreted the setting of the book by a Spanish author – with large chunks of it set in Spain simply because Spain is the centre of the universe, as opposed to somewhere suitably Continentally decedent for odd Art to take place – it got you thinking about the other series [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Culture Shock, Language, Morality, Schemata, The Rest of the World, Work, Writing on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You can be very boring on the topic of grammar. And punctuation. Particularly commas. The rules are comforting, even if you do treat them as something of an abstract concept when it actually becomes time to apply them.
You are considerably more interested in how we actually use language, though. And the routines we follow and [...]
Posted in Books, Britain, Morality, Patriotism, Religion, Russia, The Rest of the World, The USA, War on March 3, 2007 | 8 Comments »
So there you are about to recommend a book in a thread as a result of Midnight Jester’s very thoughtful and sensible post on the nature of responsibility in war. Suddenly you realise that you have done this so frequently over the last few years that rather than wear out the keyboard and encourage people to read it one at [...]
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