QP : Tractor on TradeMe for sale + Farm for free

Check out www.trademe.co.nz for bidding on a tractor in Catlins – currently at $155,000 – oh! the 8.1 ha farm is chucked in for free.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=218710429 - the Q+A are worth reading – so droll! so kiwi!

5 minutes to chocolate!

Chocolate Mug Cake
- submitted by Michelle, MOPS graduate (MPL)
1 Coffee Mug (or 1 cup pyrex jug)
4 tablespoons flour (that’s plain flour, not self-rising)
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
Nuts (optional)
Small splash of vanilla
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.
Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in [...]

What is this?

WW : For Those Who Take Life Too Seriously …

http://www.wordworx.co.nz/seriously.html
- only one weblink today, but this one may be enough to keep you occupied for 2 minutes …  54 one-liners to tell your friends.
My favourite : I feel like I’m diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
V8s are coming our way in a couple of days,
Blessings on your going to sleep and on your getting up,
Johanna

ThTh : Light Hearted HS

Who said that ‘thoughtful’ can’t be tongue-in-cheek?
http://www.teachinghome.com/newsletters/newsletter207.cfm
April Fool’s light hearted approach to homeschooling
Here’s the Headers:
Top 10 Tips for April 1st
10.  How To Make Your House Clean Itself
  9.  P.E. Can Work Out for You
  8.  Hands-on History
  7.  Lazy Science
  6.  999 Ways To Teach the Multiplication Tables
  5.  Free Math Manipulatives
  4.  Short [...]

20 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
 3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
 4. Put your garbage can on your [...]

NJ’s Solution

N7 is cheerfully peeling the carrots and onion for tea [evening meal] when his eyes started ‘crying’.
He rushes over to the other bench, where ‘things’ get plonked as you come in the door [most people have a bench/place like this, don't they?!], then back to his work station and the onion.
Here he is – wearing [...]