#biff chip and kipper were books used to learn how to read but i do remember really liking them and the magic key is the one i remember most

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@maingoes created a tag game, here is the description:

"Topic is covers of books that definitely changed your brain on some sort of minuscule but permanent level or that you think your childhood experience would’ve have been different without (longest title of a tag game ever I know) my only 2 rules are u should have read the book before age 10 and you cannot include the HP series"

Here are my books:

I shall tag @j-purplesunsets-rainydays @jesperfaheygf @cancara @mostlykind @captainjanegay @holdingontozouis and anyone else who sees this and wants to do this! Also pls do not do if you do not wanna ❤️❤️❤️

#about me #hello time for me to overshare in the tags you are welcome once again #so elmer i just always loved because colourful elephant ooo #story about how being different is ok ooo #the rainbow magic fairies. genuinely were like my whole world as a little kid i was obsessed #i used to colour in the pages and one time i coloured in a picture and gave it to my teacher as a present lmao #i still have an edition of the seven rainbow fairies that i got gifted as a young kid #thats why i chose that specific pic #i think my fav was maybe izzy? which lmao cause look at me now #i loved all of them though honestly #dork diaries again i used to colour in all the pictures and i think thats like the first proper books i can remember buying and actively #keeping up with as new books came out #mr men i used to love and still love like t shirts and stuff of. we never actually owned many of the books though because tbh they are #expensive but yeah lmao. i even kept my old lightswitch that has two of the characters on it. #biff chip and kipper were books used to learn how to read but i do remember really liking them and the magic key is the one i remember most #and FINALLY #Where's spot i mostly added because i used to go to the library a lot as a kid and every single time id pick up that book and any other #that had any sort of interactive element tbh. so i added that one more because it reminded me of like when i first went to the library #so ja : D

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Miss Lashes sat her last ever Uni exam on Tuesday and I just don’t know where the time has gone.  It was only yesterday I was driving all her wordly goods (she doesn’t travel light) down to Edinburgh and leaving her in her new digs crying all the way back. She starts work on Monday in London so made a flying visit home yesterday to see us before she goes on to the next stage in her life.

I managed to get a day off so we could spend some time together and we ventured all over the island visiting various places.  Tech Support is learning to drive which is another ‘how old am I and where is my life disappearing to?’ milestone, so he drove.  Miss Lashes and I were consigned to the back seat because I can’t keep my mouth shut and the imaginary break doesn’t work in the front. Orkney Beef is incredibly patient and excellent with learner drivers so he sat in the front and told the back seat drivers to shut it and let go of the side handles.  Still, it’s a very strange experience being driven around by your son, when only five minutes ago you were listening to him read Biff, Chip and Kipper books though.

All smiling despite three formal warnings for the naughty ones in the back

  After tourist type sightseeing we stopped off for a visit at a little fossil centre and museum.  This was always Tech Support’s favourite place to visit when he was a little boy and we had a bite to eat while there.  In the tearoom we found an old game of Pick Up Sticks.  Orkney Beef and I are old enough to remember it so we explained the extensive rules of the game to the kids.

‘Pick up the sticks, don’t move other sticks when you pick up the sticks’

  They don’t make games like that any more do they?  and to be quite honest I didn’t think for a second the (now adult) kids would be remotely interested in the fast paced and hard hitting game. They are more used to shooting zombies or toilet training their Sims babies. But they enjoyed it, and things became quite fierce and competitive.  Once again the ever patient negotiator Orkney Beef  reminded us we were all having a lovely family day out so just stop arguing, thus preventing a good old family punch up and blood on the walls.

After the game finsished Orkney Beef wanted me to show you he was declared winner.  Miss Lashes however wanted  to demonstrate that she spent for years slaving away at university to be photographed pretending to look like she’s just poked a stick up her nose.

  So all that investment in education and life skills has well and truly paid off.

    #ThrowbackThursday Wondering Where The Time Goes #familylife #raisingchildren Miss Lashes sat her last ever Uni exam on Tuesday and I just don't know where the time has gone.  

#Family life

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I remember my teacher having the full collection of books written by Roald Dahl. And they weren’t provided by the school, it was part of the room that she put together as we knew it as our classroom library. We always read Dirty Beasts and The Enormous Crocodile as a class. Then when we did silent reading or group reading I remember readingEsio Trot, then The Twits, The BFG, The Witches and so on. 

I also remember when I was much younger as a class we read through The Hungry Caterpillar, I feel like we used to do a lot of activities about that. And integrating it with every subject. Similarly, we did this with The Rainbow Fish too.

I grew up in England and when I started school, like learning how to read, we used this series called The Magic Key. I think we started reading this in reception (prep) all the way until we were ready to start independent reading. I still remember the characters to this day, there was a dog called Floppy, a boy called Kipper, his siblings were Biff and Chip. And there were some other kids called Wilf and Wilma. 

At home the book we really enjoyed reading was a book we owned called Farmer Duck, and the line we loved reading or getting to act out was - “How goes the work?” it’s an absolutely amazing read, and I wouldn't mid using it as a book I can read to my own class one day. 

#ecl310 #deakinuniversity #roalddahl