Despite a truly awful nights sleep, we were all up and functioning reasonably early :cheer:

A couple of days ago i won this auction. After i had won she sent me an email saying the item was in fact different and what i’ve been sent is this Now, it is only £2.50 – but is it me? or was this unreasonable? IMHO the one i have been sent is significantly […]

I linked just to one blog post and it came up much better than if i linked to the whole blog. It’s a word cloud Thanks Sarah 🙂

This morning i read HEMUK, sighed audibly at how nice their day sounded, looked up and saw blue sky and sun and galvanised myself to get everyone out. So off we went to Tesco’s, where we failed to buy suitable Toymaker serviettes, but did have a lot of fun running down the cycle path and […]

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Panda painted onto single hair Huh. Why?????

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Katrina lost child mission ends Seems incredible that in a civilised country it could take 6 months to get all the familes back together really. Glad they have though. On a lighter note though, this bit made me smile; “The centre worked with the FBI, the Federal Emergency […]

And naturally, there were good things today as well. Fran wants to do the Toymaker badge for Brownies so we started off the morning by trying to think of some things she could do that were within her capabilities; she suggested a jack-in-a-box and a series of jointed dolls with clothing accessories, i talked her […]

*Self indulgent wallow. If you already hate me for my life then you might as well not bother reading it, it’ll just be fuel for fury.* Something has settled over me in a lump of gloom, i’m not sure what it was. perhaps it was realising last night (again) that the end of March was […]

Okay, a ‘little’ more spring-ish today, just a little. Didn’t actually shiver as i ran to the car and good lord, i’ve just felt the radiators and they aren’t on! Most of today has been taken up with education cunningly fitted in around an MOT debacle. We left for the 2pm appointment, arrived 5 minutes […]

Hama Bead Loading Screens Geek level dedication to a cause, as i’m sure you’ll agree 😀 ((More to the point, on a second look, it has been done in MINI beads!!!!))