Category: Archive
Running to the sunset
Today I was out and about as 4 o clock approached, and the sky was stunning. I headed towards the beach, and as my 3 minute warning alarm went off (obsessive, me?), I was running down the hill to get a good vantage point. I think it was worth it. It’s usually worth it. It’s…
Understanding minecraft – purchase, download and installation.
Smallest, aged all of 5, has become the second minecraft addict in the family. This means we are buying a second copy of minecraft. And because I’m fed up of her bothering her brother to set it up, sort it out, I’m going to understand it this time. Step 1) – buy minecraft for desktop…
Unfinished books.
I seem to have a whole stock of unfinished tomes about at the moment. They’re stacking up. Sometimes it’s just that I find myself in a different place to the book I was reading. Sometimes I get interrupted. Yesterday I got approved for a title I’ve been desperate to read, so I got stuck in,…
Whose birth fantasy is this anyway?
I was watching Dollhouse earlier tonight, and there was an odd throwaway scene at the beginning of the episode. There was a couple, with the woman in labour, and instead of being in a hospital with doctors and medical equipment and so on, they were in a cosy log cabin, with snow falling at the…
Bits and pieces
A day of bits and pieces. I’m deepening my understanding of wordpress architecture, and working on a redesign of the back end of the Shinglestreet book review blog. Which has been kicked back into life to record our 300 picture books. So that’s two targets achieved today – a picture book read, and several batches…
Goodbye sun
Goodbye year. If I were to choose a word for the year, and I’ve been trying, it would be afraid. For a number of reasons, I’ve been treading water, going nowhere fast. It’s not really a way to live a life. When you are afraid, you don’t grow, or explore, or make. You just get…
Christmas part two, postponed
Today we’ve had our traditional boxing day, a quieter replay of Christmas day. And tomorrow we were going to go to Yorkshire. But. It’s snowing in the part of Yorkshire we should have been going to, so instead, we’ll be home. I’m going to have to go food shopping, which wasn’t in plan, and I’m…
Christmas traditions old and new
The tree doesn’t go up till nearly Christmas. Usually the weekend before, this year it was yesterday. The children dress it, under Big’s expert supervision. Tonight, unusually, some presents appeared before bedtime. The younger children were very excited to open them – they rushed through tea and discovered new pjs! Then there was a quick…
When Christmas planning goes wrong
Way back in the summer, I won £60 Tesco vouchers in a twitter party. I’ve been saving them for Christmas shopping. I’d have gone and spent them last week, but I was busy being ill, along with all the kids. So today, I finally went. And it turned out that only one of the two…
