Monthly Archives: May 2006

The Peoples Republic Of England

I have been a republican for as long as I can remember. Back then, you couldn’t even get people to talk seriously about it, whereas now, there seems to be a growing movement towards a republic – no idea what … Continue reading

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People Profiler

Your personality: Stress Lover You just love it when things get frantic… and doesn’t everyone else know it? You buzz around the office at 100mph, with your quick-fire repartee and snappy decision-making. Which is great for getting things done – … Continue reading

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Picture post.

Busy week and pleasantly hectic weekend – I’ve a couple of posts in draft that I’ll return to, but for now, have some pictures Couple of days ahead of the fact, but we celebrated with friends yesterday My little boy … Continue reading

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Bombing PM justified says Galloway

Scotsman article (terrific newspaper that) While I am inclined to the view the George Galloway is more of a Monster Raving Loony than any elected MP has a right to be, hearing his views on the radio today made me … Continue reading

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Metrosexual

Discussing the above neologism, Jax and I concurred, neither of us knew what it meant. When she read this definition to me…. “Metrosexual was coined in 1994 (as was its noun, metrosexuality) by British journalist Mark Simpson, who used it … Continue reading

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Seems only right

to celebrate a three year blogiversary with a three blog day It’s been a pretty good one. Kids have played a fair bit, and Big also did a good amount of reading, they’ve both been on the computer, I heard … Continue reading

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Shhhh

she reads Hurry Up, Franklin (Franklin (Scholastic Paperback)) and Oscar the Grouch’s Alphabet of Trash Knew all those boxes of books were going to come in handy at some point She wanted to know why I wanted the titles, and … Continue reading

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Blogiversary.

Three years on. Wow. Still not quite sure what I was thinking starting up a blog a week before my baby was due! Anyway, I’ve written a fair bit in these three years, and so have the rest of you. … Continue reading

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BBC NEWS | Health | Hearing tests ‘key for language’

BBC NEWS | Health | Hearing tests ‘key for language’ Detecting hearing impairment in babies early can improve their language ability later, a study suggests. No, really??? Sometimes I despair. Is there a pot of money going around that I … Continue reading

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Easy listening on a family day.

Lovely lie in this morning while the kids pottered up and down mainly leaving us to our own devices. They eventually gatecrashed the party and crawled into bed with me, which was rather nice, and we got to have a … Continue reading

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“I got it off ebay”

Surgeon bought his equipment off eBay (Scotsman article).

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Any other map nuts?

I like this a lot – Worldmapper “Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.”

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To wrap up

Lots of playing, education, even wrapped up a couple of things from my todo lists. Never as much as I want to do, but maybe that’s something I just need to make my own peace with. Big focussed on word … Continue reading

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A-doodle-do

Yes, you know what usually starts that. Today is not going successfully. It isn’t going badly as such, it just isn’t going well. I’ve had in depth discussions with Big about her reading, which isn’t taking off because she thinks … Continue reading

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I wonder if it would be possible

for the various news channels to stop telling those of us who *aren’t* living in a drought area that there is a drought. ‘Cos it hasn’t stopped raining here for days, my washing is stacking up, and my children are … Continue reading

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loads to do

so obviously I’ve spent this evening learning more about php and mysql. Ah well, it’ll probably come in handy at some point It’s been a good day. Estate agent came (eventually, after ringing to say he would be late when … Continue reading

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by popular request

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Spam Karma rocks.

got sick of my comment spam last night, so finally got around to adding in Spam Karma 2. It was a good idea – it has caught over 2000 spam since then. It’s a very easy install – took me … Continue reading

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A “me” too post

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hm, think I need more henna

eta I got it here, courtesy of her

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