Hooray for DD Give three cheers and then some. She had her first competition today at the gymnastics club and won GOLD in her class. She got a proper medal and a chance to stand on a podium and grin like you've never seen. Mr wol has pictures and will link when he uploads them. Lord but I was nervous. Watching as a parent is much much worse than ( Read more... )

Before you all kill me no I do not have pictures but am trying to get them.

Another mother at the school is doing puppywalking for the Guide Dog people and while I was sick starting bringing the fluffiest little Andrex puppy to school. He is allowed in the yard as part of his training so there is much cooing and aahing over little Trev - 'they ( Read more... )

Shit what a month! Have not posted in forever because there is a limit not just to the number of times one can reasonably complain about feeling rotten but there is an even tighter limit as to the number of times one can complain about feeling rotten with the same bloody virus. BB had it, I got it, Mr Wol got it and BB had it again then I got it ( Read more... )

( You dirty minded lot! )

Re; 'just because he's the idiot spawn of incestuous German robber barons doesn't mean he's not entitled to his opinion.' It was in reference to HRH Prince Right-Charlie and his latest pronouncements on how he is happy to be 'an enemy of the Enlightenment', beautifully, because principles that are more than 200 years old can't possibly still apply ( Read more... )

Well has been a challenging week. Mr Wol came down with the dreaded lurgy last week and I was coughing like an end-stage emphysema patient and as Mr Wol got steadily worse we were staring down the barrel of a trip to Dublin for a Dara O'Briain gig and an IKEA marathon with no prospect of being fit enough to face either. In the end we scattered to ( Read more... )

In spite of remnants of lurgy still dogging me I stole the chance last night to have a night off from children. People who know me know I am a frequent visitor at PZ Myers's blog Pharyngula which is a hotbed of information and discussion on topics of science in education, evolution, anti-creationism, bacon and atheism. PZ has been in Ireland for a ( Read more... )

Is sick.
Is tired.
Is sick and tired of being sick and tired!!!
On the plus side have not eaten solid food - successfully - for five days now so the February diet plan is off to a flying start. on the negative side chefted came to our house last night and for a house warming gift cooked us a delicious gumbo and cornbread which I had been looking forward ( Read more... )

Forgot to mention that it wasn't just the coughing that kept BB awake last night. Poor lamb had a nightmare that drew both parents to his bedside to find a weepy, upset little boy who, once he had his mama, really settled down to crying for his 'toast.' "My TOAAAST!!!" It reminded me of Terry Pratchett's line in The Wee Free Men where they get ( Read more... )

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... huhwhuzzat!? ... I'm doing that a lot today. BB has a bad cough and I have a revival of the tummy bug and thus and therefore nights have been very broken. At least the grim and awful exhausted depression of Monday and Tuesday night has receded even though the back wall of the house seems to be leaking and the gas bill ( Read more... )