Monthly Archives: December 2006

is what you need when your kettle packs up We seem to be suffering from electrical gremlins just now – the kettle demised yesterday, and one of the phone handsets is stubbornly refusing to charge. Lack of a kettle in … Continue reading →

Spotted on a site run by boys, (isohunt.com). Sadly, I think this speaks for itself, but it could just mean that boys are sloppy and careless.  

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Reverend Countess Jax the Weird of Burton-le-Coggles Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title First seen at Merry‘s

that would have been when Small kicked one of Big’s teeth out then It was wobbly beforehand, but she was still rather (loudly) traumatised. I hope she didn’t get blood on the sheets, as they aren’t our sheets, we were … Continue reading →

Jax may have missed “Christmas 3 – Revenge Of The Grandparents” but there were pictures, so that should console her. My favourite part was where Small started to disappear into his sack as the level dropped and his excitement increased. … Continue reading →

I missed Christmas This would be Christmas mark 3? The one where my parents gave the children stuff. And me. And Tim I assume, although I didn’t see any presents for him. It’s not been a good day. I feel … Continue reading →

thank you for asking Quick round up, as on the way out, I disinterred something large from the pile at the side of the bed, and that means that I now can’t see the bed Parents popped in for first … Continue reading →

with the man over the road in the little shop I’ve never been in in the six years we’ve lived here. You try explaining that you’re buying washers to make robots with! with parents, children and Tim about arm length … Continue reading →

See Jax, see Jax dance…

Just a reminder that as you unwrap that awful present it could be your chance to win, win, win! The terrific Making It Up prize competition is under way! Just think, in a few days the wonderful first prize of … Continue reading →

and some other stuff. We popped to the shops this afternoon, it was busy but not unbearable. On the way back to the car we walked through an underpass and around up into the carpark. Above the underpass is a … Continue reading →

Big is gently sobbing herself to sleep right now. Today was the Christmas party at school, and then I picked them up early and took them back to my office so that I could do the lockup. That all went … Continue reading →

Belatedly from Sunday (Christmas mk 1 at Jax’s sister’s house in Wales) Not only did I get a red nose which flashes…. … I got a guitar… and a light sabre too…

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Am finding work a touch stressful – as I mentioned yesterday we are very rapidly running out of bodies on the ground, and today was even worse than planned as someone rang in sick. So it’s been all hands on … Continue reading →

on my worst enemy. Monday morning, and I finished sorting out a box of stuff from under the table before heading off to work. And then coming back inside to wake up Tim and whinge as my car wouldn’t start … Continue reading →

BBC condemns Clarkson ‘gay’ jibe Sorry but I think this is ridiculous. Complaining about Jeremy Clarkson’s derogatory use of a term for homosexual people is ludricous, or even ludicrous. It is not Jeremy Clarkson’s remarks that are offensive, it is … Continue reading →

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