Happy birthday mathcathy!! :-)

Well, summer is definitely over - I've had to put the heating on for the first time in months! It's been chilly for a while, but we've gone for the putting on a sweater option, but today I couldn't feel my fingertips, and took that as a bad sign...

In an effort to be organised, I thought I'd book Saturday 1 September for Evie's second birthday party. Details to follow when we have some idea what we're doing, but it'll most likely be a gathering at our house again! Please come and help us have fun!

Just to let you guys know - Southern Electric are doing the rounds door to door again. I had a bloke claiming they'd "had a printout of the electricity users on your street and you're being overcharged for your electricity". Last time they tried this they attempted to get me to hand over our electricity bill so they could get our customer number ( Read more... )

For those of you affected by power cuts in Sheffield, you can find out when you are scheduled for cuts at this website. You need to find your postcode in the list and see which group you are in. The schedule is broken down into high, medium and low risk of disruption (rich_jacko spoke to the helpline and was told that so far no low risk times and very few ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to xurble and astatine210!

Just heard on the radio - cracks were spotted overnight in the Ully reservoir dam south of Rotherham and homes have had to be evacuated. Hope all the Rotherham dwellers we know are unaffected.

Edit: Had a call from edy_ - all the Rotherham dwellers we know are ok - they don't live near the Ully.

Have a good summer solstice everyone! Enjoy all that daylight!

Thanks to rich_jacko presenting Evie with a copy of "That's not my pirate..." I was reminded of something I meant to do a while ago. Having seen several of these books, which all feature a small white mouse collecting things (pirate, monster, robot etc) I was wondering what he was planning. I have found the complete list of titles and so I have a full list ( Read more... )

Due to longhairedhippy being off doing dice-rolly things, rich_jacko and I are going to the Fat Cat for lunch on Sunday. We'll be there from about 12.30pm if anyone cares to join us! :-D