Monthly Archives: June 2007

Andrea asked

Questions: – Would you wear crocs out in public? Do you own crocs? What color are they? I just bought crocs last week for my camping holiday. I have dark green ones, the kids have celery apparently. (I referred to … Continue reading

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Tim goes camping

The hardships I endure to spend time with my family. The Belstead Brook Hotel sits in nine acres of tranquil gardens, alongside a willow-lined stream. The original 16th Century hunting lodge is still very much at the heart of the … Continue reading

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It is only Sheffield, after all

“The government has not understood the scale, gravity and severity of what has happened” the rescue effort is the “biggest in peacetime Britain”(Fire Brigades Union, General Secretary Matt Wrack). But heck, the Government is in London, and they were busy … Continue reading

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And a little more

Pureed food ‘isn’t natural for babies’ Feeding babies on pureed food is unnatural and unnecessary, according to one of Unicef’s leading child care experts, who says they should be fed exclusively with breast milk and formula milk for the first … Continue reading

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Today’s big story

On the BBC is Bliar handing over to Brown. They have expensive outdoor camera crews all over London filming Jaguar cars and people going off for lunch at the Treasury. And in the real world, quite a lot of the … Continue reading

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Food for thought

Parents warned not to smoke at home Simon Clark, director of smokers’ rights group Forest, criticised the proposals. ‘It’s wrong to draw an automatic correlation between children seeing parents smoke and then assuming that they will take up smoking. I … Continue reading

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They’re off camping!!!

In pouring rain, and with an immediate diversion to avoid this…….. Which is about one hundred yards from our house, fortunately, we are a couple of feet higher. I was disappointed when some people at the other end of the … Continue reading

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Getting into the spirit

Some music for my friends and family in tents…. All together now…. Summertime, And the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ And the cotton is high Your daddy’s rich And your mamma’s good lookin’ So hush little baby Don’t you … Continue reading

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Hearing aid priority for veterans

From the bbc But he added: “The government’s own figures show that about 80,000 people have already waited too long for an assessment, while our own survey shows that the average wait around England for a hearing aid fitting is … Continue reading

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It’s raining

I think Jax is really rather glad not to be sitting in a tent looking out on this. Instead she has a fairly gentle day’s packing and a plan for a nice, dry, night’s kip and an early departure for … Continue reading

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Why we won’t be at camp today.

I was working last night. I was working the night before that, in fact, I’ve been working evenings for two weeks. Working evenings means finishing at 12.30, then driving home, getting to bed around 2, getting up to help with … Continue reading

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Kitten torturing in the morning.

Halfway through my second week of evenings, and I’ve a kitten to vaccinate. I was back late last night – doing code reviews during shift handover, and then the most amazing thunderstorm, which I would have enjoyed watching, but made … Continue reading

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Painting Too

Click here to create your own painting.

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Ooh, now I’m cross.

I have a new phone, you may recall the agonies I went through to get it. A little while ago the suretype predictive text thing turned itself off, and I’ve been having to multitap all sms, which has been driving … Continue reading

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Painting

Click here to create your own painting. Found this a couple of places on the blogring and couldn’t resist exploring. Wish I could find the energy to do it with paint instead of a keyboard though. There’s a kitten asleep … Continue reading

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Say Hi

There is still dissent about what the new addition to our family should be called. Some say Mist, I say Furball. I think Furball is an excellent name and very descriptive.

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Shortlist for Top Country Market Town

Found this interesting list of the best market towns. I love market towns, and although I don’t think I would necessarily have made any of the same choices in the only region I know well (the East) this looks like … Continue reading

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Food processing

Just had an interesting question from Small about digestion. He is fascinated that food goes in one end and something else comes out of the other. Now he wants to know if the process is reversible.

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Estate Agent Babble

“The property is an end terrace being one of two other properties…” Still trying to follow the logic of this offering.

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Just a couple more

saw the kids for nearly half an hour this morning, this is not good. Was reading earlier on the BBC website some have your say about flexible working in which there seem to be a lot of ppl feeling that … Continue reading

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