Monthly Archives: October 2005

watching a computer defrag. So that was my working day. Decent drive in. Reasonable drive in the dark home – saw my first shunt of the darker evenings. No one hurt, didn’t even appear to be any damage. So actually … Continue reading →

been and looked at a house. Shopped. Resisted making lots of jokes about poor Tim, given that he was stung several times by a wasp hiding inside a pair of pants. Ouch. Got stuck on a motorway in traffic, so … Continue reading →

[Beware, much techy speak moaning and groaning below] I’ve got open boxes of books littering the downstairs of the house, ready and waiting for me to code this blasted bookshop I’ve been designing in my head for the last year … Continue reading →

Teachers tv Cor, they don’t half talk some nonsense – “we’ve touched all the bases”, “behaviour mentors”, blah, blah, blah… Let children grow and learn. Allow them to explore. Offer them opportunities, surround them with ppl that love them (parents … Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program – FAQs Can homeschoolers participate in NaNoWriMo? Homeschoolers can absolutely participate in NaNoWriMo. For families with kids 12 and under, parents can sign up themselves and access our teaching resources and young writers forums (including a … Continue reading →

I’m so ready for it, and so are the children. Bad day at work today arguing with my development environment and losing. I *hate* that. Terrible journey home, what is with the M1 these days? And if the radio person … Continue reading →

Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation

wanted to use from the sublime to the ridiculous, but I think I’ve used it before. Small has a fan club. I rang the school today to sort out some admin issues, and spent several minutes being told how wonderful … Continue reading →

two days of school! Well, not really, actually. It’s half term, and there are very few children there, so it hasn’t been very school like at all. We made it up there by 8.30 yesterday, giving me plenty of time … Continue reading →

Long drive in the rain this morning. Long drive in the dark tonight. Got home shaking after a complete idiot demonstrated the M1 way of driving – manoeuvre, signal, mirror. I really don’t enjoy having to do emergency stops in … Continue reading →

I should be pleased that Big is dancing around so actively to my Eric Clapton. It’s great that she’s getting exercise and activity on such a grey and stuffy day. But she keeps making my chair bounce…. Now we’re listening … Continue reading →

Visions Of Science 2005 Winners Really stunning pics.

We went to the library this morning, and posted yet more (shameless plug!) bookbags Both children chose tapes, and we’ve just sat and listened to a disneyfied Cinderalla. While we were doing that, Small and I were dressing one of … Continue reading →

The other day I changed some details on the router. It allowed me back into the admin page once, and never again since. Which is making setting up a VPN a touch difficult. Today I decided to upgrade Sage, as … Continue reading →

It would be irresponsible of me, with a full time job, two children and a blog, to sign up to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. Yes well, I think we all know what I did next And … Continue reading →

Nuff said.

“Becoming increasingly harder to find, this semi-detached home enjoys ……” You what? Is it camouflaged? Shrinking? Playing hide and seek? No, of course it isn’t, it is just standing there being just as easy/hard to find as ever it was.

and tired parents! Not a good combination. After a restless night (all on my own account, no nocturnal offspring ), we both managed to sleep through the alarm. Just as well that Small woke at 7 by falling out of … Continue reading →

Cake Anyone?

And I decided that I would savour it. So I hereby apologise in writing to Tim – there’s so much I could have (in all probability should have) done around the house. I did do washing. Lots of it, when … Continue reading →