They *cannot* be serious?

Seems the UK media have been whooping it up because their athletes have won more medals at the Olympics than the Australians. The Sun (see the link) have a headline reading “Brittania Rules the Games”! Basically a country with a population of 62 million is crowing because they are beating one with a population one [...]

How’s your quality of life?

We’re quite remarkably well off by most standards. The wife earns a bucket of money, which of course we spend and enjoy pretty much, however the actual ‘quality of life’ issue still raises it’s head now and then. In order for the wife to earn this small fortune she has to leave the house at [...]

Assault by hedghog.

A New Zealand man has been convicted of assaulting a teenager with a hedgehog. No idea why but William Singalargh, aged 27 was convicted of assault and offensive behaviour after he threw the hedgehog at a 15 year old boy who was returning home. The animal struck the youth on the hip and some of [...]

Not more mice?

I’m beginning to wonder if we do in fact have more mice in here than the one the cat (re) captured and killed the other day. Now and then she hangs about around the kitchen staring underneath the fridge which is usually a sign of something… though we’re yet to discover what. Today she again [...]

Members only!

Forum is up and working… if you want to join ask Carol for login details and how to ‘join’ – I’m off to bed I’ll add more themes tomorrow… I like the ‘Lord of the Rings’ one but it might not be to everyone’s tastes I suppose… tho I think all but Dad have read [...]

Family Forum Fixed.

Well the forum might not be ‘fixed’ but it has at least been created. No doubt a bucket of configuration will be required before it all works spiffingly but… as I write… I have at least password protected it. I’ve bridged it to the gallery too… and will soon sort out how to access it [...]

Family forums.

Following my latest technological embarrassment (deleting the entire membership list of the gallery) the old man left the following comment I wonder if there is another family in the world engaging in this conversational crossfire with such insulting good humour= madly unique, or uniquely mad? Which made me think… as I do from time to [...]

More on the gallery.

Considering making the ‘holding’ directory ‘password protected. It wouldn’t make a lot of difference to anyone who *really* wanted to get in, or who searched via Google for instance since it’s not that easy to prevent images being viewed on an open server, but it would make casual visitors slow down. I’m only querying it [...]

It’s a bit alarming.

Was talking to a guy on Friday who had been burgled recently. He was telling us how he, his wife and daughters had been in the house at the time and how the thievess s had bashed their dog to keep it quiet, taken the keys to his and his wife’s cars, loaded them with [...]

Gallery active, activated and operational.

I’ve adjusted the settings to the gallery at Imagery so that I manually register anyone who wants to join, assuming I know and trust them – which means you don’t get a ‘registration mail’. ================== Edit: You’ll all be glad to know I accidentally deleted everyone Please rejoin and I’ll activate you when I get [...]

Ok… I surrender!

Finally I raised the white flag and waved it about. Yes… I finally gave up and asked for a referral to a back specialist. The referred pain in my hip is steadily increasing and taking anti-inflammatories and aspirin or paracetamol or whatever simply isn’t working any more. I’ve now got pains down my right leg [...]

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit…

So there we were trolling along home in the car. We’d been to pick up the youngest from skating… the coach brought her ‘so far’ and we collected her from the drop-off point. As we turned into our street we saw a rabbit in the middle of the road. Clearly it was transfixed but the [...]

Eldest? Shirley knot?

I’m sure most of you are aware but in case you aren’t, when I write ‘eldest’ or ‘youngest’ when talking about my daughters I am referring to the girls who are still living with me… I *do* of course have another beautiful daughter in the UK who we never see enough of, even allowing for [...]

Updated one of my pages…

I thought it was about time to add in a photo of yours truly to light up your life. This particular photo was taken this morning and shows me in all my glory… ah what a handsome creature I am eh?? Just to make sure posterity is able to find me at any time I [...]

Work versus play.

The daughters room is now almost bright and clean after two days quiet work cleaning it out. The fish tank has been moved along with all sorts of old toys, abandoned bits of wool, bits of unknown games and other detritus of uncertain parentage. She did a good job… well I’m sure she would have [...]

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

This quote is from the Merriam-Webster dictionary. If the person concerned should read this I’m sure they’ll know who it refers to… but because of their ‘infirmity’ probably won’t understand *why* it’s here, probably because of the last eight words. I say no more other than the mind boggles… and having boggled… moves on. Stupid [...]

Flaming moggie!

The cat brought in yet another mouse this arvo. I heard it yowling and turned in time to see it bat the poor thing around before running off with it again. Naturally I went off to try to defend the rodent, as I’ve said before, while I know cats kill mice and ‘play’ with them [...]

Like sand through a sieve.

My memory is getting worse as time goes by. I find I get so engrossed in some project or other that I forget or ignore all else… regardless of whether the other projects are completed or not! One such project was getting the daughters holiday photos to her. She’d copied them to a DVD but [...]

Me and my big sis sometime last century.

Here’s a picture of me and my big sis… when we were neither of us higher than a grasshoppers knee! Gawd…. sad… innit?? Anyone who’d like a copy… or the original negative should contact “Happy Snaps”, 4 doors from the GPO, Fleet Street, Torquay. Wow… a half century ago they had to send the film [...]

The loose moose!

You might remember a few weeks back me rambling on about a mouse the cat had brought in and released. The cat caught it once more, but after being scolded by the visitors it released the mouse to roam free again in the house… seemingly with a charmed life as from then on neither we [...]

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