I remember my wife's late Aunt Beryl saying that her secret was doing the Australian Times Crossword everyday to keep her brain in shape. Her mind was as sharp as a razor until well into her 80s. Most people seem to…
April 2013
32 posts
Brain training
New mamamobileEirene's Hyundai Atoz + failed her MOT last week. The cost of the repair outweighed the cost of the car, rendering it beyond economic repair. Eirene got to get a new car. Out of all the cars she could have had, she…
- Wrong O'clock
I'm having an inverted siesta. I fell asleep pretty much as soon as I typed the last words on my last blog at 21:14, had about 4 hours then awoke when baby awoke.. Eirene and baba now back in sleepsville, I'm on the top…
- Tour de Harrogate
Squeezed a huge amount of things into this weekend inclucing the settings of a geocache on the 'new' cycle path. My geocache ( www.geocaching.com ) has joined one of over two milllion other geocaches throught the world…
Majestic morning and treeWithout sounding like some old hippy, I had a beautiful experience of nature this morning. I walked up the upper reaches of the 'new' Nidderdale Greenway or the…
- Jakes Unplugged
I'm not sure if having an accidental shower in champagne at the start of an evening is a good omen or not, but I took it as one, and my hunch, it turns out, was right. It perhaps wasn't quite so good for the poor guy…
- We're off out tonight
Writing a quick blog now as we’re off out later. Yep, we as an Eirene and I. The first time Eirene will be leaving Annie with someone since she was born nearly 1 month ago. Our night ahead sounds quite spesh – we’re off…
- Audioblogging
listen to ‘Family Tea Time’ on Audioboo. Today for my blog of the day, I thought I'd try out something a bit different - an audio blog. I've just found that audioboo (the site I've used to serve the audio) clips…
- More day
More day is great. Doing outdoor stuff after work at this time of year is still such a novelty and it's coming up two weeks since the clocks went forward. I'd got into such a habit over winter of finishing work and…
- Felix built our new computer
Finally we got round to retiring the creaking old beast that served the family admirably, for around the last 10 years. Felix had the desire to build a computer himself and he'd saved a fair chunk of the money towards…
GodparentsWe nominated 2 Godparents for Annie Mo today. Eirene is in charge of the formal theological side of our younglings, but the selection proposed was wholeheartedly agreed to by me. (R&D). A lovely couple who head up a…
Harrogate - Killinghall - Ripley cycle pathA cyclist on the recently opened Bilton Viaduct section of the Nidderdale Greenway path earlier today UPDATE : NOW WITH MAP (see below) The Nidderdale Greenway. An unblemished by cars Harrogate to Ripley cycling and…
- Id, Superego and a vasectomy
I had two options for my blog post of the day. One - what was in the post. The real, 'snail mail' post. A thing from Spa Surgery telling me how to book in to have my vasectomy. Eek. The second thing that I thought I…
- Cracking morning
Embedded video Not quite cracking flags temperature yet, but a beautiful blue sky drive into work this morning across The Yorkshire Dales. As the schools are off, the roads were quiet and I got to enjoy the scenery.The…
My eldest, my youngestLunchtime, first day back at work after a long stretch of time off the grid. In summary, it's been a morning of work email reading. It took us ages to get home yesterday - we dawdled quite a lot on the way home from…