Can anybody help me, i have looked on the BAA site maybe my eyes are deceiving me, but i want to get my son joined onto the frequent travel club, as i have done with Virgin.

As hubby and i belong to the Executive Club, my son is not old enough to join the club as you have to be over 18.

He is old enough to join the Virgin one but i cannot see an application form for BAA...

Have any of your children joined BAA?

Something for younger kids to read, but addresses negative feelings children experience and how to deal with them ...

Here is a sample ...

Part of being a Kind Kid is being Kind to Others and to Ourselves.
There are a lot of things that get in the way of being Kind.
Some of those things are outside of us.
Some of those things are inside of us.
This month we are going to look at one of the things that is inside of us that makes being Kind hard at times.
It is a simple thing we all know very well.
We try to pretend it is in every body else and not in us.
But it's there.
What is this thing?
It's a little being whose name is Meego.
"Oh no, there's no Meego in me!" you say. Well let's look a little closer, and see if we can't find Meego in all of us.


Read more here

Sick of always hearing the bad news? The Mail and Guardian have a Good News page, you'd might like to look at ...

Good News :am:

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Something else was written about the Simpsons.....

"There are so few shows where family members go to church," said Antonia Coffman, the show's publicity director. "The Simpsons go to church and it's intertwined with the irreverence. But at least they go on a regular basis."

Experts agree that despite the show's jabs at institutions like organized religion, the education system and government, the characters' morality remains resolute.

"No matter what [the] characters do, they end up accepting and loving each other," said the Rev. Corinne Baker, who has used The Simpsons to discuss faith with parishioners at the Light Street Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. "I think that's what all humanity is about, about really wanting to belong."

Ned Flanders, Homer Simpson's perennially happy neighbor, is an example of how the writers simultaneously poke fun at and praise caricatures.

"He's flawed and he has his crisis of faith and he is a goody-two-shoes, but he's a good exemplar of the best of Evangelical Christianity," Pinsky said. "He lives his faith. He believes in the social gospel, taking care of people, loving his neighbor literally."

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Woke up to a very wet and windy day! Is summer ever going to arrive!

Got family staying with us at the momen! It's Ashleigh's First Holy Communion today so a big day for the family!

Enjoy your day whatever you have planned.

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday. :bday2:

Gaborone is certainly not your typical African capital. Forty years ago, just before Botswana's independence, there was barely anything here at all. Now though, the skyline is dotted with high-rise buildings, and new shopping malls.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4318777.stm

The rips in Dinis Dzimba's trousers are not a fashion statement. His clothes are torn because they are the only ones he can afford and his six-string guitar is made from a battered can of cooking oil. But the tune he plucks and the song he sings, entitled Eggfish, about a wife who likes to sleep late, is magical and draws a small, appreciative gathering in Maputo's Xikelene market.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/hearafrica05/s...96,00.html

Bitterly cold weather around the country is likely to result in snow on higher ground, hail and sleet in the interior and rough seas in the Cape, meteorologists said Friday.

The National Forecasting Centre said the central and eastern parts of the country were being invaded by very cold weather. Snowfall was expected from Friday night in the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape, on the high ground of the eastern Free State, in Lesotho and on the Drakensberg.

The bulk of the interior could expect bitterly cold, wet and windy conditions with showers and thundershowers expected to deliver small hail and sleet in places.




Forecasts showed that "very rough seas" were expected to set in between Cape Agulhas and Cape St Francis overnight on Friday.

The cold spell was expected to persist well into next week, with little temperature recovery taking place before another cold front makes landfall in the Western Cape late on Monday.

Cold nights could be expected as temperatures plummet from Sunday, with severe frost in many areas. - Sapa

Ek trek my hand oor die laventelbos voor in die tuin Â…
Ek sien ouma met die dik bos swart hare wat lief was vir parfuum, mooi aantrek en klere gemaak het vir die bure. Sy, en forse, presiese oupa het menige naweek gaan dans. As kinders, was dit vir ons te lekker om op hulle bed te sit en al die gekleurde stringe krale, oorkrabbers en borsspelde aan te pas en weg te raak in ‘n droomwêreld van musiek en swaaiende aandrokke … Dit was ma, wat ons eendag die donker vlek agter op die mooi borsspeld met die reënboogsteentjies gewys het – een steentjie was weg en sy het dit vervang met ‘n mooi pêrel – ‘n herinneringe aan die motorongeluk wat die oorsaak was van ouma se vroeë dood jare later. En nou dra ek haar trouring en pêrelhalssnoer, want, het sy gesê, as sy die dag nie meer daar is nie, moet ek en sus haar juwele kry. En sus is vandag nog in die klerebedryf - mode-ontwerp gaan swot.

Met die oopstoot van die deur, draai so ‘n effense, muwwe reukie gemeng met varsgemaakte filterkoffie in my neus en my gedagtes loop na Amsterdam, die ou seemanshuis, De Poort, waar ons vir ‘n tyd gewoon het. Die effense mufreuk in die gebou is ‘n seël van die argitektoniese wonderwerk – geboue wat eeue lank, voete in die water oorleef! Soggens vir ontbyt, sterk varsgemaakte Douwe Egberts koffie met koffieroom om maande later in Suid-Afrika, met onttrekkingsimptome te stoei!

Ma sê dis slegte maniere om aan kos te ruik voor jy dit eet. Maar ek sê maar skuus, en ruik altyd aan soetkoekies en trek sulke diep teue in soos wanneer jy bloubottel Vicks moet inasem om jou bors oop te maak. Die diep, soet reuk laat my dink aan die groot bruin papiersakke voel soetkoekies wat ma altyd gebak het wanneer ons vakansies wildtuin, Kaap of Oos-Transvaal toe is. Koffie en soetkoekies was op die ontbytspyskaart en wanneer ma nie gekyk het nie, het ons die “slegte” gemmerkoekies aan die gretige perd gevoer wat sommer in die kamp in Magoebaskloof rondgeloop het en soggens sy kop oor die halwe deur gesteek het om te kom groet en ‘n handvol, gesteelde koekies te kry. Nou is gemmerkoekies van my gunsteling, veral dié soort met die effense krakies en suikerkorrels bo op. Lékker soet!

Terwyl die son iewers agter die Belgiese grysheid sak, stap ek en Dolla om die blok en die reuk van hout wat brand kom van iewers, subtiel aangedra op die aandluggie... Ek beleef die reuk van warmmaakvure, kosmaakvure en geselsvure vermeng in ‘n syserp van rook om die son, wat rooi ondergaan in Hammanskraal, noord van Pretoria. In die verte blaf ‘n paar honde die nag tegemoet.
Ek dink aan die brandreuk van die vuurtjies by die baksteenhuisies onder op die wal van die Limpopo – saans wanneer die plaaswerkers familie word om die vure; gesels meng met die proes van waterbokke in die rivierruigtes en die huil van ‘n veraf jakkals. Ons sit en kyk na die helder sterre en ruik pa se pyp. Ou Bakkies steun kort-kort in sy slaap van pure honde-lekkerkry.

En ek weet, net so sal die reuk van sop, ‘n leeftyd later, my gedagtes altyd laat gaan na buurvrou, Gabby, wat trou aan Belgiese cousine, elke dag die heerlikste sop maak en my laat onthou van ons woonstel op die eerste vloer, iewers in Kortenberg.

Die slim mense sê, reuk is waarskynlik die sintuig wat emosies, verbeelding en geheue die meeste stimuleer. En ek wéét, dis so.