After I waved the boys off this morning (“have fun storming the castle!”) I turned my attention to the garden, specifially my vegetable plot. I’ve been nursing some seedlings along for the past wee while. Sadly I lost the cucumbers (apparently they REALLY mean it when they say cucumbers don’t like to be transplanted) and… Continue reading Turning Into My Mother
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Best Job In The World
The news is full of the guy who won the contest for the “Best Job In The World” – as a caretaker of a tropical island, which was a brilliant PR campaign by the Queensland Tourist Board, by the way. Talk of the Nation, on NPR, is doing a call-in show, asking people what their… Continue reading Best Job In The World
Happily Hitched
It’s wedding season here in the US. Anyone who has ever listened to 1930s & 40s popular song knows that ‘moon’ and ‘June’ are synonymous with love — and it’s not just because they rhyme. In most of the States the weather is unbearably hot any time between June and October, so most weddings, with… Continue reading Happily Hitched
Wheeee! A Wedding
One of Kev’s colleagues got married today and we got to go! It’s the first wedding we’ve been to in years. We’ve outgrown the wedding phase and even the christenings phase. Now we’re pretty much relegated to first communions and funerals until the boys grow up and start pairing off. So it was lovely to… Continue reading Wheeee! A Wedding
Holiday Pics
Official photographers all over DisneyWorld take your picture and we, like the suckers we are, had to buy them. But hey, at least we have pics of all four of us!
Happy Holidaymaker
I woke up in my own bed this morning, for the first time in a week. Last week was spent at Disney’s Animal Kindgom Lodge in Florida and yes, I was aware of how fortunate I was, every minute of the trip. Before we left I was out of sorts. By the time we got… Continue reading Happy Holidaymaker
Fighting It
So, I wrote a children’s book. It’s a short, 6000 word chapter type book, like one of thos series books that early readers hoover up. My idea was to write a series of them. The first one went really well, and I think part of it was the simplicity. I used a published book as… Continue reading Fighting It
Haircut
I went to have a trim today and came out… …a brunette.
Oh, To Be Welsh
I sat at my computer and just goggled. (That’s right, “goggled”, not “googled”!) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw&hl=en&fs=1]
Sci-Fi is now SyFy
Sci Fi network is rebranding itself as “SyFy” The head dude said, “When we tested this new name, the thing that we got back from our 18-to-34 techno-savvy crowd, which is quite a lot of our audience, is actually this is how you’d text it,” Mr. Howe said. “It made us feel much cooler, much… Continue reading Sci-Fi is now SyFy