WHAT a nice house 🙂 I’m a bit worried it’ll be a bit small for them though 😀 I dodged a dental appointment to see them too, so its practically a given i’ll now crack my temporary filling, lol. Started off this morning to come down and find Fran doing her normals all on her […]

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Emirates tightens camel race laws Right, really its a serious and worthwhile story, but the excerpt on sage still made me laugh when i saw it. little things please little minds… “The United Arab Emirates has passed a law tightening a ban on children taking part in […]

Got severe retail therapy-itis, struggling not to spend very badly. I must have hormones gathering i think…. so far i have restricted myself to a book on signing from the bookshop Katy linked to (thanks Katy) but i’m going to have to visit The Bead Shop and possibly Daisy Designs tonight too. Its no good, […]

So, having proved myself to be the household thickie (will hastily justify this by saying i developed maths panic over it and felt the need to do the quiz at top speed but DID get the ages question right!), i don’t have much more to say really. Frances is definitely growing up. In the last […]

Your IQ Is 135 Your Logical Intelligence is Genius Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Exceptional A Quick and Dirty IQ Test Max’s results. Hmmmm….

Your IQ Is 105 Your Logical Intelligence is Genius Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional Your Mathematical Intelligence is Below Average Your General Knowledge is Above Average A Quick and Dirty IQ Test Oh dear…..

Today is our 7th Wedding Anniversary – Happy Anniversary to us 🙂 Its been quite a busy 7 years really and i think we’ve done quite well to survive some of it with our marriage intact. here’s to many more good years. Finished Pocohontas last night; very sobering, Fran and i managed not to cry […]

…. not pox. Phew. That would have been embarrassing. Nits was bad enough really. Not feeling very communicative; come back to lots and lots of birth announcements, all totally great, all amazingly empowering and fabulous. Feeling a total failure. Don’t bother to commiserate, i’m just logging it as a recognition of how hard and crap […]

Things i’ve thought of while feeding Josie (again) Some MP signs pointing people to the tents. Whiteboard top and bottom. Whiteboard Monitors to make sure they are up to date and have info on them. A “Planning Select Committee” 😉 Sunday Morning Coffee Morning. Monday Evening BBQ – occurred to me this could be hosted […]

We arrived Friday for a night just as a family. Does sometimes feel like we move in a loosely connected herd these days so it was quite enjoyable just to have one night with no one to talk to but Max 😀 Saturday we went out for the morning rather than sit around and wait […]