We are considering our options.

Is it even remotely possible that there is an option that's pretty sociable and possibly even verging on being a low key party but would have somewhere for us to put Izzy upstairs so we can both come out?

( Crash Course About Rally Wales )

The Volvo chaps certainly know how to put on a good promotional track event. I've been to a few of these things, and they're usually relatively well-behaved, none of this squealing wheels rubbish and certainly no sliding things about unless you're on the skid pan thankyewverymuch. Not so today. Perhaps the easiest way to explain the feel of the day ( Read more... )

- ban people who serve stew with a pastry lid calling it "pie ( Read more... )

Izzy's lovely childminder, who she settled so well with and with whose kids she has really bonded with, has just announced that she won't be able to have her anymore. Apparently Izzy is too heavy, and so picking her up repeatedly is knackering Rosa's back. I cannot begin to express how disappointed I am - Izzy is SO happy there, and now we're going ( Read more... )

This weekend I ( Read more... )

A little thing about the 15 albums meme: I have yet to see one where I don't have at least one of the fifteen, usually more.

Does this mean that I share some musical taste with all of my mates or that they're just great albums? Probably a bit of both...

I suspect that these will appeal to a certain portion of my friends list:
http://www.steampunk-engineering.co.uk/steampunk-usb-drives.html

On the way into work in this morning's rush hour, I went 15 miles without seeing another car.

I really don't miss the south east on mornings like this.

It was Izzy's birthday a couple of weeks ago. On the day itself she and I went to the butterfly farm in Stratford with Dad and Nenita. It was great - lots of really big colourful butterflies flapping around everywhere and landing all over us. And parrots. And an iguana. I was most chuffed to see a butterfly hatch from its cocoon - truly a beautiful ( Read more... )