In the sidebar, I did it!
Finished the never-ending shawl Only a week late, as Big is already fond of pointing out.
Ah well. Got other things to do tonight, like eat and sleep, so I’ll wish you all a very happy new year, and sign off til 2007
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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 this house is a traumatic event – we both drink copious quantities of [...]
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.
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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 over in Meltham.
Other than that it was a pretty uneventful evening. Once [...]
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.
Avid readers may recall that last year Jax and I were given a hamper by my brother [...]
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 like a pretty crap mother, partner and daughter tonight. I [...]
First Prize: A tomato ketchup container shaped like a tomato.
Two Runners-Up Prizes: Special Poundland® tokens, entitling the recipient to purchase any item on sale in the store.
Please submit your entries using the comments box below. The winners will be the givers or recipients of the presents judged most rubbish by me. My decision is final, [...]
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 present giving on Sat morning – outfits for Christmas day. Small is [...]
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 and body size after the 3-4 year old trousers for Small were ridiculously oversized. [...]
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 a tomato ketchup bottle shaped like a tomato could be winging its way to you. So [...]
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 grass verge, and a fence separates the carpark area from the verge.
It’s not a [...]
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 very well, but unusually, neither of them fell asleep in the car on [...]
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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That did amuse me. Much needed after a day that seemed [...]
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 deck, and as soon as that happens, my work rate slows even further as [...]
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 All that happened when I turned the key was a plaintive whirring [...]
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 Jeremy Clarkson. All of him and everything about him. I know a lot of people find him [...]
The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers)
