Who ya gonna call?

Well, not that’s for sure!

At school on Friday, one of the woman mentioned that she thought her house was haunted.  While cleaning the house that she planned to move into, she heard someone walking up the stairs.  At first she thought it was her , but then discovered that no one was home at the time in question.  She and two different people heard the same noises on three different days and then her husband felt someone touch his shoulder at the weekend.

Knowing I have an interest in the subject, she asked if I’d go around and check out her house and stated that if there was some kind of nasty there she wasn’t moving in.  So I arranged to go to her house at lunchtime today and have a walk around.  When I arrived I asked her not to tell me which rooms her husband had felt the touch, where on the stairs (as the staircase was split into two parts) footsteps could be heard or what rooms she and her friends had been in when they heard the noises.  I walked around the house, in and out of the rooms, noting the and then did a second circuit, stopping in one of the rooms.

As I entered one particular room, it felt like stepping from a normal room into a – a complete and sudden drop in temperature, but while the temperature was extremely cold there was no feeling of .  I told her that this was the room her husband had had his experience and she confirmed it.  I wandered around the room for a few minutes noticing that one side f the room was noticeably colder than the other.  Moving to the colder side I paced up and down then stopped at the coldest spot and told her that was where her husband had been standing.  She confirmed it again.

Leaving the room, I returned to the stairs.  About halfway up there was a corner where the stairs turned and changed angle.  Moving from one step onto this small landing there was, again, a definite drop in temperature and, moving off the landing up to the next step, it warmed up again.

I didn’t actually see anything or hear anything myself while I was there and I won’t say for certain that there is a presence, there’s a definite drop in temperature in certain points.  She doesn’t move in for a couple more days and, I imagine, once she is there constantly she’s more likely to discover something if it’s there.

It’s Official – violent video games ARE good for your health . . .

Well your anyway, apparently!

According to a issued today playing violent games like can improve contrast – which is the ability to notice very small changes in shades of grey against a uniform background.  According to tests run, playing these kind of games has  between a 43 – 58% rise in the ability to see the contrasts.

Link to full report – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5070634/Playing-violent-computer-games-can-improve-vision.html

So there you have it, now you have a good reason to be playing these games – you’re simply exercising your eyes :D

How much is too much?

A couple of weeks ago while I was dropping the girls off at school, one of the other mum’s was having problems with her daughter.  Her daughter was clinging to her leg sobbing, saying she didn’t want her mum to leave her and wanted her to stay at school with her.  Usually this little girl (she’s only 5 or 6) is outgoing and perky and it’s unusual to see her quite that upset.  This went on for almost the whole week and her mother couldn’t get her daughter to explain what the sudden problem was.

Last week, her daughter finally confided in her mother, telling her that one of the boys in her class kept telling her she had “no boobs” (boobs being the word I’m using and not the word the boy was using) and that she was flat chested and was constantly being mean to her.  Since these kid are only 6 and under – the school is only small and doesn’t have any classes above that ) we were surprised that this kind of thing was being said.  When her mother spoke to the teacher, the excuse for the boys behaviour was that he was a Special Needs child and didn’t interact or socialise well with other .

Now, I’ve got nothing against kids mingling together, no matter what, but surely there are occasions when a child should not be mixing with children who don’t have special needs?  At such a young age, I would think he would be better off in a school that is actually trained to deal with or circumstances – in my view that’s better for the child <em>and</em> the school.

The same boy told the same girl to F-off the next morning in the and her mother spoke to the school once again.  She was told this time that the boy didn’t understand that swearing wasn’t right and that he didn’t cope well in exchanges with other children. . .

One has to ask, with all the PC rubbish going to such , are children who need special attention being put into in the fear of the /school etc being accused of discriminating?  The children at the school are 6 and under (as I’ve stated) at a point in life where they are easily swayed by the actions of others and, while I guess this child’s parents want him to be in a mainstream school, surely the children already there deserve the opportunity to go to school and not be abused by a child who “knows no better”.  Wouldn’t it make more sense for this child to be given the education he needs by people trained specifically for the task instead of normal teachers muddling through and other children’s school experience being marred?

Or maybe that’s just me . .