Coconut oil benefits

I have recently decided to make some healthy changes to my diet and a friend mentioned she cooks and bakes with coconut oil as it has great health benefits. I decided to do a little research into it myself and to my amazement and the help of technology I discovered that coconut oil has, wait for it..... 101, yes 101 benefits. Again with the advantage of technology I have bought some with one click of a button from amazon! This was the best deal I come across at the time of  purchase. I am also interested in buying a recipe book meals that heal to inspire me to help me make life long changes to my diet. I've got to say it tastes and smells amazing, plus no saturated fat- 100% pure coconut oil! I've made sweet potato wedges, fried chicken with it and I've even put it some dry patches on my face. Never going back to any other oil!!

Super slow PC :(

Having a little technology bother to say the least!! My husbands work lap top won't allow me to access blogger= nightmare as his lap top is pretty reliable and my PC is so slow I could knit faster than it. Which means I've been sat looking at a screen since 8pm this evening and have manage to attatch ONE hyper link to one of my blogs and it is now 8.39 pm. Talk about technology having a negative effect on ones well being is an understatement # screamingrightnow!!! So I am now using Niall's I pad mini to blog about my troubles which is fine ,but I am having difficulty in attaching any hyper links.... Feeling sad bloggers :( suggestions are welcome my way

Modern feet measuring technology

Well I had a surprise today at Clark's shoe shop at mc Arthur glen shopping outlet. Child friendly and interactive foot measuring! Haven't seen anything like this before!! The shop assistant held an iPad like  tablet devise(I'm a little unsure what this devise was- but I'm going to try and research it) and asked Freya if she wanted to chose 'Jack' or 'Daisy' on the screen there was a character image of a boy and girl, Freya immediately pressed the girl image, the shop assistant then asked her age and encouraged her to find  the correct digit  and press the green tick to confirm. She then slotted the devise in to the machine in which Freya was standing on and hey presto it measured her feet!!!  I managed to take a picture on my ever so handy I phone 5 of my niece having her feet measured. Was very impressed with this technology. From experience when my children were younger getting feet measured can be stressful especially when your 2 year old son can't sit still for longer than 30 seconds  and ends up having a tantrum and refusing to put his foot in the plastic hand held  foot measurer he would have loved getting involved with this new modern technology! Well done Clark's!!

Spring has arrived .... So have the mini beasts

What a beautiful day today! Spent some time in the garden with Jay the husband Niall & Freya. Mainly just sorting out, power jetting and weeding. Freya in particular loved discovering all the mini beasts ,she found the biggest wiggly worm I've seen and a teeny tiny lady bug . My I phone 5 came in particularly handy to capture a picture of her investigating how they moved and how they  differed in  texture without it I wouldn't have  captured this amazing moment.  We then used the iPad mini and used google images to look at various mini beasts that could also be living in our garden. Niall however was happy to observe and encourage his little sister to do the dirty work! My gorgeous girly girl is defiantly not afraid to get her hands dirty! I couldn't resist so I used piccollage to display these pictures.

Great Geography

Niall my son has a big interest in information books ,encyclopaedias from dinosaurs to space and planets. In fact when he visits the library these are usually the kind of books he borrows. At Christmas I bought him an usborne flags of the world book and he's recently asked me to download flagsquiz app and I am amazed on what flags he recognises, in fact I am ashamed to say he recognised more than me! Niall's has been able to extended his geographical interests by playing the flagsquiz app on his iPad mini, this also gave opportunity to enhance his phonic knowledge and spelling. Lower pictures show which ones Niall recognised and named. Yet another great learning app here!! 

what's app a must for ladies

I have recently been thinking how brilliant whats app is for us ladies when we are finding it difficult to chose an outfit to go out,  unsure on what to buy or just an opinion on how you look. ! My friend and I love sending each other pictures of clothing we are thinking of buying or just want their opinion on what we look like in a particular dress or anything really. A much better and more positive response than " yeh... it looks okay" from your husband who is not even looking or not even at all interested! Us ladies like to be 100% sure that we look really nice, isn't that true ladies??? So get whats app it's free.

 This is a recent dress my friend what's app for my opionion for a wedding she has recntly! Rather nice I think ...

ICT frustration

Although ICT has major benefits  it also has it's negatives, especially in our school! At the moment I am running a Number and Play programme with 6 parents and  their children from the reception class. For my portfolio and evidence I take pictures of the children working alongside their parents doing some lovely activities.This week our class fuji film camera battery that had  supposedly been charged  was not or is so old that it isn't holding it's charge. I took one picture and that was it-flat, and for love nor money would not come back on! This was so frustrating and the other battery we have was also flat as nobody had put it in to charge. Note to self- make sure I have back up batteries.