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 it as lime and was corrected). Pretty much everyone in our swamp was living [...]
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 hotel, housing our restaurant, bar and private dining rooms.
etc.
“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 playing their political games and glad-handing each other.
Bearing in mind we have had not one, [...]
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 six months, then weaned immediately on to solids.
Gill Rapley, deputy director of Unicef’s Baby Friendly Initiative [...]
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 people who put Bliar and Brown into power are baling out their homes, and wondering [...]
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 have a little boy, a four year old. His father smokes, not in the house, not [...]
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 flood dissuaded a moron in a little Suzuki 4WD from trying to drive through it. It [...]
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 cry
One of these mornings
You’re going to rise up singing
Then you’ll spread your wings
And you’ll take to the sky
But till that morning
There’s a’nothing can harm [...]
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 48 weeks.”
While I can see that keeping ppl waiting for a hearing aid who have lost [...]
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 the Holy County tomorrow.
Not quite sure but I think if I insert a link to [...]
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 kids at 7, going back to bed, and finally rising late morning to faff about [...]
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 driving less than amusing. The added bonus of fog patches didn’t help either.
Up [...]
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 me up the wall. I read manuals, searched the help on the phone, [...]
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 in the middle of the floor. He’s taken to just dropping off wherever he happens [...]
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.
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 a pretty good list. I wish we lived somewhere which had the characteristics of [...]
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.
“The property is an end terrace being one of two other properties…”
Still trying to follow the logic of this offering.
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 women with children get the easy life. Can’t say as I’ve seen it [...]
