Monthly Archives: April 2007

Not quite sure what was going on here. They had fun, ran round like maniacs, ate jelly and ice cream, bounced up and down on the trampoline, ran around some more, played pass the parcel and then ran around like … Continue reading →

this is a rare event. So, if you’ve taken ibuprofen, paracetamol, more ibuprofen when the first lot have worn off (time wise that is), you’ve tried a darkened room, a warm bath, sitting out in the garden and lying around … Continue reading →

We went to visit Jax’s parents yesterday. Her stepfather has just been into hospital for some maintenance and repair so we were doing “visiting”. Big is rapidly catching up on grandma, shoe sizes nearly the same, etc. So we are … Continue reading →

On Thursday, I took Lily, Big and Small for a day on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Ever since we went there last year Big has been begging to be taken again, Lily was home from university, so we … Continue reading →

In a couple of weeks time, we shall become an official two income household again.  Tim’s coming to work the same place I do – should be interesting.  It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks getting it set up – … Continue reading →

Go on, you know you want to. 

Dropped by Alison’s blog just long enough to spot that she’d done this, read the first one without meaning to and ran away to do my own   December 7th, in case you weren’t sure.  Events. 1917 – World War … Continue reading →

Big (16th January) 3 Events 1909 – Ernest Shackleton‘s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. 2006 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia‘s new president. She becomes Africa‘s first female elected head of state. 2007 – Tri-Centenary of the … Continue reading →

Small (29th May) 3 Events 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s 39th birthday. 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football … Continue reading →

Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday month and day only. (as seen at Atypical Homeschool) Mine (27th May) 3 Events 1647 – First recorded execution of a witch in the American colonies. 1895 – Oscar Wilde is sent … Continue reading →

For a while, I’ve been conflicted about going to see one of my best friends. As I think I’ve said before (or I’ve said out loud, if not here) it wasn’t the fact that Kris now has a baby and … Continue reading →

Comes on immediately after the children’s programming on 5. So this morning I find Big in tv trance watching it. Frankly, I’d rather she watched porn. 

actually, it was more of a late afternoon trip, but somehow that doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Another lazy morning – if all weekends were four days long, maybe I wouldn’t be so in need of lazy … Continue reading →

I didn’t mean to buy the book. Honest. It just sort of fell into my (Amazon) basket, and then I thought I had another click before the order would be placed and … Anyway. My Amazon order arrived yesterday. I’ve … Continue reading →

Just been playing with Google’s new My Maps feature. I have been contributing, sporadically to the Geograph project (photos of every map square in the UK). Now I have a Google Map of my Geographs. The Google map is more … Continue reading →

Richard Newbury writing in La Stampa.

“When the centre of gravity moves from one region to another, and another country becomes suddenly very powerful, what history teaches you is that conflict is inevitable. What we have to learn is that cooperation is essential,” Henry Kissinger Kissinger: … Continue reading →

An afternoon at the expensive, pay to go in adventure playground at Rother Valley Country Park. I say expensive, £4.75 for the pair for the afternoon isn’t too bad, I suppose, except that the other playgrounds are free, and one … Continue reading →

worked and slept away Yesterday I went to work. I know, I know, it was Saturday. I went for a brainstorming day with my boss, and it was good, although I drove back with a steadily increasing headache, courtesy in … Continue reading →

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