{learning} about twitter cards. And writing it up over there at Technology Solved. {nursing} poorly sick Smallest. She’s suffering side effects from her MMR {watching} City of Ember Small was unimpressed, and we had some interesting discussion on how evolution works, but the rest of us rather enjoyed it. Good cast, somewhat underused in the [...]

If you find a sick or injured hedgehog in your garden, put on gardening gloves and install it in a cardboard box with a heatpad, some water and meaty cat food. This is the advice from the British hedgehog society. Then call a local volunteer, and hopefully they come and help. Edie looked dead when [...]

It was positively autumnal today. The wind had torn off this rose before it could bloom. All sorts of imagery there. I’ve struggled again today, but I’ve run, worked, spent quality time with children, cooked, and avoided chocolate. I managed to complete two tasks that have been looming. I need to work out how to [...]

I’ve been struggling with a few too many things recently, mainly down to an inability to say no and a lack of time management skills on my part. There’s also a perfectionist streak and this problem I have with not being able to start things if I don’t know all the techniques for doing it, [...]

It’s sort of summer. It must be, I burnt my shoulder going to the dentist last week. That may of course have been it, but you never know. We don’t have a summer holiday planned. We’ve got our Tudor experience coming up, and I can’t quite see past that at the moment. Once we are [...]

Makes for pink skin! I’ve obviously been out in the sun more than I’d realised today. We had a long day, trekking to the next town by bus as the car’s still in the garage. It was our dentist checkup, and just one of those things, travelling with one child in buggy and one in [...]