Today my nephew came home, with two red gashes on his face! Apparently he had bumped (accidentally he says) into another boy earlier. Then while my nephew was in conversation with a friend, this other boy came up, pulled my nephew's cheek and scratched him.

A 2007 UK study on primary education concluded that children face "excessive" pressure today. Conducted by Cambridge University, the Primary Review was the biggest such independent study in the past 40 years.

Yes - Craig has recently been "knighted" - in fact his whole class has been (^___^)

Crude/obscene language is not uncommon to be heard among adults.

I had been working on a tissue box cover as part of a commission recently. As straightforward as that may seem, I was stumped for ideas. It wasn't about the how-to but more of the desired look I needed to achieve. Two days on and I still had no ideas....this was pathetic to say the least!