Unashamed Begging

A Free Man has nominated me in his Christmas Limerick contest!
How exciting! I never win anything!

Now the idea was to write an Anti-Christmas limerick which I initially refused to do, writing instead this little ditty:

When planning your Christmas affaire
If you offer the Free Man a chair
Know, his tedious whinge
On our annual binge
Will dispel all goodwill, so beware!

Pretty good I thought. Clever use of rhyme. Good message.

But he will go on and on and eventually I had to admit that there are things about Christmas in Australia that I do not particularly enjoy so I submitted an entry which adhered to the rules.

There are 5 finalists to choose from and a stack of music to win so please, please, please dear and loyal readers, click on over to his post and VOTE for ME!!!!!!!!

Commissioned Watercolor Portrait GIVEAWAY!!!!

Commissioned Watercolor Portrait GIVEAWAY!!!!

Wow! Look at this! I didn't even know how this 'create a link' thing worked!!!

A Free Man is, as usual, sucking his way around the blogosphere in his inimitable style and trying to take the portrait out of the mouths of other rightful babies. Now, while I too would like a water colour portrait of my beautiful BA (perhaps in her toddlerhood?) I mainly wish to alert all my lovely readers to this wonderful giveaway over at Grosgrain.

Aren't I altruistic?

Give It Me Baby...ah huh huh...

The brilliant Elisa with her comments about Maths Projects from days gone by has made me think. I have a huge on-line resource with you guys right here at 'The Flaming Sword'. So come on. What Math projects do YOU remember as being interesting and engaging? Don't worry about ability levels because I can always modify the content if I get a killer idea!

Perhaps I should turn this into a contest? Give me great Maths ideas from your youth and I will organise a give away of some sort. Let's both get thinking on that................

Help Me Out Please

My friend Natalie over at The Benson Family and Other Stuff is having a competition give away for her 400th post. There are some really cute appliqued towels up for grabs and if you go over there and leave a comment I might get my name in the draw TWICE!!! So do me a favour and pop over before tonight (Sat night US time) and be sure to tell her you're not really interested in the towel yourself ;-D