Max and i spent a bit of the morning revving the car up; he diagnosed black-black smoke to be less bad than blue-black. (Well he would know, if anyone can read smoke signals from an exhaust pipe, he can.) We stuck some cleaner in the fuel and then needed to drive it. So we went. […]

a) Black smoke coming out in large quantities from the back of your diesel car. b) Your diesel engineer husband going green. No need to ask if it’s going to be expensive then 🙁 And there went our weekend, approximately 5 minutes after setting off.

We’ve got a hefty weekend of family contact this weekend. I’m really looking forward to seeing my brother and sister, mum and dad, sundry partners and niece mark 3. It’ll be just the thing to keep my mind occupied. We’ve had a productive day; more reading and maths from both big girls this morning. I […]

www.flickr.com More photos in Hama Bead Inspiration Is now up and running. Would be very delighted to get entries to it; if you would like to join it, you’ll need to let me know your Flickr screenname. As long as i know who you are, i’ll accept 🙂

No education today. Didi manage to get them all bathed and hairwashed by 9.30 (me as well) which was fairly impressive. No nits either, i combed in vain. Excellent. Dashed out to see Hannah and Linzi. Spent a pleasant couple of hours discussing maths books and so on. Kids did play but eventually separated out […]

The Flickr girl she say yes! So i can use Flickr on BM 🙂

I’ve finally got to grips with TextPattern, which means i’m now transferring MP over to a new and slicker system at some speed. If i can keep it up i reckon all the worthwhile of the old will be done within a month and then i can get on with making it better and adding […]

…. “what goes around, comes around” doesn’t really cover it does it? School Reform

I’m deeply aware that my blogs have lacked a great deal of interest in the last year. I’m not convinced it’s going to change anytime soon; really i do blog as a way of trying to make sure i can write an LEA report easily, plus i do actually like having a record of our […]

Japanese Male Heir crisis Maybe i’m missing something here, i mean, maybe i really am rather than in a sarcastic “i know i’m not” way. But surely, there is no possibility that the Crown Prince’s Wife doesn’t know that sex is determined by the man and therefore there is very little she can do about […]