Author: Tim

  • A Mouse's Tale, My First Group

    Word Of The Day application: Close attention; diligence: shows application to her work. Boy was I surprised! Sent Big up to my office with a book this morning to work her way through it on her own prior to reading it with me…….one hour later she was still hard at work. I think she reckons…

  • News from the Big Top, Beppo writes

    Today’s word? delegate assign a task to (a person). Or otherwise, get some other sucker to do all the work. Big appears to be of the opinion that it is me that needs to learn all this stuff. Having decided that she wanted to do a card for mummy and got me to write out…

  • Unjaxing

    A bit like unschooling? 🙁 Later Big and I are doing English. I plan on teaching her a new word: overacting n : poor acting by a ham actor [syn: hamming] overact v. tr: To act (a dramatic role) with unnecessary exaggeration.

  • Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index

    “Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. “Soon, it will be.” Google Purge

  • Women drivers,eh!

    World’s Worst Women Drivers!

  • 'It must be legal,' she said. 'The police are here taking stuff, too.'"

    I don’t have much time for our police. I think they could and should do and be a lot better. On the other hand…. Things could be worse A lot worse

  • Geograph Therapy – A Map Nut Tells All

    For the last couple of weeks I have been starting my days with a therapeutic walk, only a mile or two, but it has been a real pleasure to get out and get some exercise and fresh air on what have mainly been beautiful, bright summer mornings. I have got to be on nodding terms…

  • Humane or what?

    Locate mouse Deploy Timjax® Mouse Trap Deploy Timjax® Mouse Goad Capture mouse in Timjax® Mouse Trap Re-introduce mouse to the wild (or Claude, if available :-))  

  • Made me giggle.

    Oh, and while on the subject of food, some Tasty Morsels

  • Feel the Force

    Ever wondered what the point of the 2001 census was? Well without it, Brighton would have been unable to establish that it has more Jedi than anywhere else in the UK.