last night, I decided to upgrade thunderbird. I read the instructions, followed them to the letter, and got an installation that wouldn’t launch. Not good. When I went searching for answers I discovered it was a known problem, thankfully with a known solution. So put it in the install instructions!
So that was last night adequately taken care of. I decided at that point that I’d had enough of computers, and took up crocheting instead, completing the first 10 rounds of an elephant’s backside as seen here Fun.
Today was a full day. The children had a party, up in Brighouse, and I’d planned to go to hobbycraft on the way. Would it surprise anyone to hear we didn’t make it? 🙁 I’m quite upset about it actually – the demo today was jewellrey making and I wanted to see it for myself, not just for Big. But it was mainly her who didn’t want to cooperate in getting organised, so leaving early just didn’t happen. We did manage to make the presents for the birthday girl though, so hopefully that will go down OK.
Party was OK, if a bit short. Quite amazed by these places dropping the length down to 90 minutes – by the time you’ve had half an hour on food, there really isn’t much playing time at all. They have to be making a killing! Had a slightly disturbing conversation with one parent who told me she’d taken her daughter out of the kids’ school to put her into nursery at the school she will be going to next year so that she wouldn’t get left out of this years worth of making friends. So socialisation issues start ever younger as well it would appear. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to think about that side of it 🙁
Then we went over to see a sister of mine, as it was her birthday yesterday. She was thrilled with the parchment craft card, and the hand decorated keyring Big had made her, so that made for a pleasant afternoon.
And by the time we were home it was tea, bath and bedtime. Small is now bouncing up and down the stairs and our pizza is in the oven. The day is looking up 😉
Oh, and in other news, we’re working away from having a tv in the living room. Tim has set up a media pc which appears to be quite cheerfully locating around 60 tv and radio channels, which appear to be more than sufficient to our needs, so we will be disposing of the enormous tv via freecycle just as soon as I get around to it. We’ve also unplugged the sky box, so I must do something about that subscription pronto!
I’m rather enjoying the change, about the only thing I’m actively missing atm is A town called Eureka, which I daresay will make it onto dvd sometime or other. Or on to a channel we can get 😀
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