I bet you've all been wondering why you've not been getting your usual quota of extremely witty comments in your journals ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since Mrs #1 has seen all her kids and grandkids together in one place. So for a month or so, it was planned that today would be the day. By chance it is also the little one's third birthday, so a party was planned. Here's the adorable Lorelei:


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For those on dial-up, there are three pictures of about 115K each under the cut

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Phew. They've gone. All of them. I love them dearly, but they thoroughly exhaust me. They always have done, but now even more so. Tears in parting, "don't go before me" are my Dad's last words to me on his way out. Real morale-boosting stuff. Number4son was slightly more philosophic about the whole thing. "It's going to hurt like shit, but ( Read more... )

M had to leave early on Friday (said she was going out "fishing for men") and forgot to fetch our mail. So I took my courage in both hands and went down to the mailbox. A large envelope with unknown handwriting, but a return name that sent my heart thudding like it hasn't for a good while. It was from O. I haven't heard from O for about fifteen ( Read more... )

"Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog" is something to stick in your favourites/bookmarks. The following is a brief extract which had me laughing so much I had tears in my eyes, had a breathing crisis, and nearly coughed myself unconscious ( Read more... )

I had lunch with my old pal J yesterday.  J used to be the CEO of the bank where I worked,  I don't know how we got to be friends, but it started about fifteen years ago when I was jobbing as part time boss in Administration of the archives/stationery store/printing/desktop publishing units.  J used always to write his notes and stuff with a ( Read more... )

Opportunities to take pictures are now few and far between.  Last Sunday morning it snowed again.  Not unusual in itself, but I was up quite early and the light was strange.  On top of that the snow appeared to be highly selective about where it settled.  Usual bandwidth caveat applies:

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Oh my droogy droogs.  What tales I have to tell of places far away and creatures that defy description.

That would be fun writing about Second Life like that.  But I'm frankly incapable.  In fact, I defy anyone to describe the place in terms other than their personal experience.  Intrigued by jigsawpig's comments, I signed up on a trial basis the other ( Read more... )