M is for...

the letter game, passed to me by Janet over at Adventures in the 32 Aker Wood. Janet passed me the letter 'M'. What fun! Ten things I love that start with 'M', in no particular order:

1. Mountains, marshes, moss, meandering, and maps, especially the meandering, which makes the maps handy.
2. Music - I simply can't imagine life without it.
3. Mothers and mummies - I'm thankful for the long chain of women passing back through time.
4. Meat free meals and mints.
5. Mice, moles, mongrels and magpies - gotta love those adorable, scruffy, brown-eyed mongrels.
6. Media, magazines and mail.
7. Merry Christmas, magic, moonlight and mangers - we all need a little magic in our lives.
8. Memories, macaroon, Mull and Mac... - it's the Scot in me.
9. Marriage - I wasn't good at being single.
10. Mercy, The Matrix.
    

Want to play? Leave me a comment and I'll send you a letter to play with. Yes, I cheated a little and put more than one similar item on each number in my list. What is life without stretching the rules just a tad!

Bits and Bobs

Handyman Hubby, my computer, and the internet won - tonight I had to go through all 48 or so of the Firefox windows (that's about 400 websites) I had open and either save or close them. My disk drive update is overdue and it's going to be installed for me while I'm out and about tomorrow. How nice is it to have someone to take care of that stuff for me :-)

• Some interesting free downloadable games at Ellen McHenry's site.
• Blog contests and give aways.
• A really nice, free, SAT, ACT, GRE preparation and tutoring site.
• Need a hand in making a family emergency plan and stocking a pantry? Cook'n Preparadness for Life software might be worth taking a look at.
• Living with Asperger Syndrome and My Aspergers Child.

Enjoy and have a good Saturday :-)

Bits and Bobs

Election resources for teaching at nationalmockelection.org. Their website contains a variety of teaching resources and you can register to set up your own mock election. I'm probably being "thick" here, but I'm not quite sure how we register as homeschoolers. It does look as though we have the option to register a homeschool group, or just as a parent. If you've figured it out already do let me know.

Apparently children learn from praise while adults learn from mistakes. You can check this out at the Eide Neurolearning blog. Kind of explains a lot!

I keep reading about FreeRice.com and I thought I should check it out. What a great way to contribute while testing and growing your general knowledge. They currently have quizzes on Art History, Geography, Chemistry, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Math on there - see the list of subjects. Since the questions come from Harvard I'm guessing it's worth working on a few. Watch out though, I can see how this could get addictive, at least for me (my two favorite things to do - learn and help others)!

How engineers fold t-shirts at YouTube. I love it!

Fantastic Contraption - a physics game. The music is a bit irritating though so you might click the speaker symbol to put it off.

Seven days left to register for my CutePiXelArt giveaway. Currently there are only 4 entrants and the prize is a really cute piece of customized graphic art. Check it out and leave a comment to enter.