Silent Sunday 19 May 2013

Soda bread
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Saturday snippets 18 May 2013

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{coding} a fix for a plugin. More of a hack than a code. PHP developers of the world, it’s not wussy to comment your code. One day when you return to something you wrote a couple of years ago you’ll understand why it’s a good idea. {reading} Playing Tyler. {contemplating} removing all the Amazon affiliate [...]

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Read 52: Judith Kerr.

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Jotting down some notes from my phone as I’m trapped under a not quite sleeping baby. Lots of lovely books this week. Gorgeous hardback to celebrate Judith Kerr’s 90th birthday, Judith Kerr’s creatures. Lots about her life, her books, and her drawing. I’ve spent a little while adoring it and I’m sure there are plenty [...]

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Walking.

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Tigerboy has been threatening to walk for a while now. Today was the day it became fact. He kept on getting up and walking to things or people or places. And he was so very pleased with himself. In other news, I still haven’t found my car keys. Thursday is as always pizza night. And [...]

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Cybher, collective bias and my conscience.

I thought until a week or so back that I wasn’t going to make it to Cybher this year. I’d put a few very tentative calls out for a sponsor, but got no bites, and couldn’t quite see how I could afford it otherwise. And then there was this little post from Chris over at [...]

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Happiness

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Happiness is: family film nights with homemade popcorn, walking to the beach for games in the sand, bubbles in the garden, books at bedtime

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That was then, this is now.

Four of us

1983. Prehistoric times. My children ask me if it was colour by then (they’ve swallowed their father’s tale that the world was black and white when he was growing up). The answer is barely and gloriously. There were four of us. We weren’t actually fuzzy or sepia, but we didn’t have fantastic digital cameras back [...]

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Blog birthday giveaway: Panasonic Slimline Combination Microwave

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Do you fancy helping me celebrate my 10 year blogaversary? I’d love it if you would. I’ve got some great ideas on how to celebrate, and the first thing I’m doing is giving away this microwave from John Lewis To enter, leave me a comment telling me the best thing blogging has done for you. [...]

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Silent Sunday 12 May 2013

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Saturday snippets 11 May 2013

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{Travelling} to Kentwell for open day. {Seeing} lots of friends. {Meeting} imaginary people. Hello taming the goblin {Cuddling} snotty grotty miserable boy for two hours of nap failure. {Eating} junk food and freezer food. Not a good day cost wise. {Hoping} Big survives the night in a friend’s tent! {Snapshots} Big has continued sewing and [...]

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