I am having a waiting around sort of day. The washing machine is on the blink so I am waiting around in case the washing machine man can come today if not it will be tomorrow. It's the first week back after the holidays…
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- Waiting around
- Sleepy times
I have been doing some research on how to get Annie-Mo to sleep well during her naps. She sleeps brilliantly at night (thank goodness) and often when I mention that she isn't sleeping well during nap time people smile…
New year aspirations-FelixFelix is 15 and in year ten at school. I was really interested to find out what he felt about the new year ahead. ''My aim is to stay happy by doing pretty much what I did in 2013. I am looking forward to my birthday…
Harrogate Christmas Market : Aborted missionWe attempted the Christmas Market at the bottom of Montpelier Hill (Just opposite the Slug and Lettuce) today. A mix of stalls and food concessions were the main stay with a smattering of small fairground rides at the…
- Second The Ashes in a year.
What a treat. The finest of contests, the ultimate of sport, The Ashes. I'll not bang on about it too much. Actually, I probably will. I can't afford to stay up all night this first test though as I'm too busy in the…
Audio FileA few months ago, Google rolled out a service to the UK called Google play Music where you can upload, then use up to 20,000 songs to their cloud - free of charge. Once uploaded, you can access the tunes from wherever,…
We had the whole pool all to ourselves#/ We are in Dover. After a fairly taxing 7 hours drive, a lot of it spent on the M25 car park, we checked into the hotel and hit the pool. We had the whole pool all to ourselves, so I was able to take a few snaps of…
Cutting it fineI have 9 minutes to write a blog. Just woken up in Brundenell Social club Leeds. Been at the cricket. Well above average.
- New Flickr
It's been a remarkable few days for technology. Google's annual developer conference last week revealed yet another Star Trek tech ; "Hot Wording" - a device that constantly listening to you, waiting for you to say…
- Dream Raving
Just been in a dream where I was at a rave. On the fringe part, near a bar with some benches and people. I took the part of an older dude where the younglings asked me about raves of old. Megadogs and Manchester I told…
Optical Illusion extraordinaireI've seen my fair share of optical illusions before. I've not seen one as good as this for a while though.. This is a static image - it's not animated in any way. That's your head doing that, that is.
- DIY and didn't IY
What can be described in a sentence - swapping our kitchen and our dining rooms around - is proving the "easier said than done" edict, correct. Some parts of it have gone swimmingly, and others (like a few bits this…
Harrogate based weekendA weekend where not much happened, but lots has happened. It kind of started on Thursday evening with a fire bin in our back yard, with a few lovely peeps. We had relatives staying with us for a few days which was nice.…
Site back upPleased to report that DragonDrop.org is again fully operational after its server completely died. It's now been moved to a new server and restored from backups. Thanks to my ace cousin who stayed up most of a whole…
- One of those blogs.
Nothing much to report since my last post really. This particular post was inspired by looking at other blogs and thinking, I've not blogged about nothing in particular for a while. Maybe it's a blogger thing. Looking…