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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Useful Tool For PC Buyers
The PC De-Crapifier On past experience with configuring new machines, this should prove a real time saver, although I must admit my new laptop come remarkably free of rubbish – for once IBM seem to have decided to install useful … Continue reading
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Scientific sunday.
As mentioned yesterday, Big is being kind of challenging atm. They ended up eating lunch outside today (not all that much of a hardship, with hindsight I should have relocated myself and left them in here!) because I couldn’t cope … Continue reading
Thought for the week
time to rattle cages again equal pay for equal work. There’s legislation to mean this is supposed to be so. Doesn’t really go far enough though, as it seems to me that there is still a vicious circle at work, … Continue reading
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And the dolphin flies free…
a lovely day. Quiet-ish morning, until it degenerated into world war three amongst the offspring and I sent them to their room. I think what is happening is that Small is attempting to assert some level of independence, and Big … Continue reading
Blackbags in the living room.
Gosh, it’s hot isn’t it? Right, now we’ve got that over with! As many of you will have noticed, we’ve been having some issues with the server, and that has taken up a lot of our time over the last … Continue reading
Comment is free: The forest is dying
Comment is free: The forest is dying Scary post from the guardian. Go and fill in the petitions. There are also some excellent discussion threads on there tonight. I particularly enjoyed Natalie’s Give Waynetta Rooney a chance In other news, … Continue reading
Small boy, little steps
This morning while I was in the shower, Big got up and got herself dressed. I heard a drawer opening in the bedroom, and assumed it was Tim, but when I came out, I found Small balanced precariously on the … Continue reading
Two chapters, 2x and early mornings.
I’m not a morning person. Anyone who knows me will testify to that effect, so when I found myself wide awake shortly after 6 this morning, I was not amused. However, I decided to make use of the quiet, and … Continue reading
New pet.
We have a homing wasp. No matter how many times I’ve kicked the little so and so outside, he comes coming back in. Either that or we have a queue of really stupid wasps coming in one at a time … Continue reading
Reading aloud.
I’ve said time and time again that I don’t particularly like reading aloud. I do it because I feel it ought to be done, but it doesn’t light my fire iykwim. This weekend, I’ve begun to see how it could … Continue reading
Then It Rained
Quite a lot, I think we have had about an inch fall during the rather spectacular thunderstorms. Big has decided that thunderstorms are exciting not scarey, which is good. But really a rather grumpy day for everyone, cooped up inside. … Continue reading
The sad tale of froggy doggy.
Yesterday Big and Small went on their first ever school trip. They went to Ponderosa. Apparently, despite the extreme heat, a jolly good time was had by all, mainly because A and co planned ahead, and rented a classroom to … Continue reading
Eureka!
It has taken me a while to get round to blogging this. Last week I took the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off to avoid the Great Yorkshire Show traffic jams in Harrogate, which would have added several hours to my … Continue reading
Round up the youthful suspects! Govt to target crime at birth | The Register
Round up the youthful suspects! Govt to target crime at birth | The Register Another version of the story that I linked to a couple of days ago, with quotes from and reference to ARCH.
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I love our library
Kids both found and read (or had read to them) multiple books. I indulged myself going through a couple of their books-for-sale boxes, and picked up Illustrated Dictionary of Religions One Gorilla: A Magical Counting Book (which was one of … Continue reading
What I want to do
crawl off in a corner and sleep. What I’m going to do: wash up (put washed up stuff away). clean the paint off the kitchen surfaces and the paint pots. eat something. put more washing on. get some washing in. … Continue reading
The Observer | UK News | Fresh blow to Reid as violent crime rises
The Observer | UK News | Fresh blow to Reid as violent crime rises His cabinet colleague Hilary Armstrong will also announce proposals to target babies and toddlers under two in the war on antisocial behaviour, identifying children in problem … Continue reading
The days that childhood is made of
I hope! Looking back into my childhood, I remember summers best. I remember weeks in caravans, sleeping in awnings, the summer of ’76 when my sister got heatstroke and threw up down the hallway I guess I do remember winters … Continue reading
Friendship.
Tonight I got a text from the mother of Big’s oldest friend. Oldest in terms of length of friendship that is. They met at nursery when they were only a few months old, and as soon as they could move, … Continue reading
through children’s eyes
it really is a different world. On the way home tonight, we came down the A629 towards Sheffield. Big was thrilled to see the ‘windmill farm’. She wanted to know what was important about it – and we had a … Continue reading


