So I woke up on Sunday morning, having had about half an hour’s sleep, in a bit of a grump. Soon sorted that out with a bacon roll, coffee and an iced coffee milkshake from the Rotary people, yu...Read More
Now it’s my turn to be proud of Dan! His school held a prize-giving assembly today and he came home with a bucket load of certificates for great effort in maths, IT etc, plus a special award for...Read More
Katie is at her school prom tonight and I am a very proud mum. Katie’s not had an easy time recently – we moved to Oxfordshire from Hampshire 5 years ago, leaving behind all her friends, a...Read More
Putting this post up in the hope that it will prevent anyone else buying a CBR Red Rock bike (available from Littlewoods catalogue) as, IMHO, it could well be a deathtrap. Dan (aged nearly 13) was in ...Read More
I was SO excited about the World Cup last week, and really enjoyed the SA and England games (apart from that result!) … but otherwise it’s all been a bit dull really. France v Uruguay was ...Read More
OK, so my proofreading/editing business, The Proof Fairy, started by accident and was really a bit of a jokey sideline for a long time – but since November 2009 it’s become my full time bu...Read More
I was going to buy Katie a nice piece of jewellery for her 16th birthday (next Wednesday) but she decided she wanted a combined present from everyone – a bearded dragon and vivarium setup! e wen...Read More
my Joggler arrived yesterday and on the whole I'm pretty pleased with it. For just under £50 it's a decent bit of kit and has already proved a bit of a hit with us all. Internet radio, calendar, cloc...Read More
A while ago I blogged about the O2 Joggler, which is basically an electronic noticeboard that connects to the internet via wifi and has news headlines, traffics, weather, internet radio etc as well as...Read More
After several attempts I have finally managed to be the last post in every section on the 4networking.biz forum. It may have involved vast quantities of wine but woohoo!!!!...Read More
I’ve been interested in lomography for a while after I saw some pics taken by a friend with a Lomo camera. I loved the unpredictability of the results – the vignetting, the colour saturati...Read More