My daughter is a big fan of Frozen, and I have to read the book of the film to her on a regular basis (adding deliberate mistakes for her to correct ( Read more... )

For pellegrina and bunn...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130302-dog-domestic-evolution-science-wolf-wolves-human/

So which film contains: Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Arthur Lowe, Peter Woodthorpe, and Stephen Oliver? There are also many other well known actors in the cast.

Thank you all for Birthday wishes. I had a very nice day. We are visiting my parents in Dublin at the moment, and we brought Meglorien and Narazinho to Glendalough for their first time. It is a very pretty valley with two lakes (which is what the name means) in the Wicklow mountains, where there was a very influential celtic monastery from the ( Read more... )

We returned across the Atlantic just in time. Two days later and we wouldn't have made it home. Norway is currently being run from a VIP lounge in Newark airport where the prime minister is stuck (shown in a photo playing with his new iPad!). We changed there on Monday night. Our flight from there to Frankfurt probably arrived OK today (we flew ( Read more... )

At the beginning of December I was away for a work trip, followed by holidays. While I was away, there was a power cut (announced). meglorien was still here then, and rebooted our firewall/web/mail server computer, which didn't come up properly. So when I got back I tried, and found it seemed to be having problems with one of the partitions of the ( Read more... )

Back home from Christmas in Lisbon. I came down with a nasty cold due to the cold indoors temperatures (buildings are designed to stay cold in the summer). I completely lost my voice in the evening of Christmas day. We did Christmas twice: Portuguese Christmas Eve supper and turkey for lunch on Christmas day. We also split the present opening ( Read more... )

The new laptop runs Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6 ( Read more... )

Seven dwarves set off to seek their fortunes in a Haunted Swamp. They brought with them a small pack of war dogs, and a wagon filled with food, drink, logs, and an anvil. Upon arrival the miners started digging. They dug out some store rooms where all the supplies were stored, they dug into the chalk so that the masons could get busy, digging ( Read more... )

If I had a vote ( Read more... )