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Realised I hadn't seen an entry from madcatwoman for a while, so figured 'hey, why not try the LiveJournal nudge thingy' (hope she doesn't think it too presumptuous!)

Anyway, on that screen they show you anyone else on your friends list who hasn't updated in a week. The only other name was ebonyrae! I think we can give her a pass on the grounds that she can't ( Read more... )

I am pleased to report our smoke alarm works just fine...

My ability to sense the dinner burning directly behind me, not so much.

little miss trampledamage - who has read lots of books about firefighters - is now wearing a pair of tights tied round her face as a gas mask.

Okay, I was out early this morning delivering newspapers (don't have my regular route any more just helping out) so I was listening to the local radio. Crime-Stoppers is the local variant of getting people to phone in information about crimes. This was today's report as close to verbatim as I can remember it.

An attempted robbery using a knife. ( Read more... )

Two articles from the Vancouver Sun today:

Tea really does calm you down

Chocolate helps heart attack survivors recover

My offspring and I'm about to - in case anyone was expecting a rant about playgroups :o ( Read more... )

I'm an aracnophobe. I hate spiders, big or small they freak me out ( Read more... )

The Alberta provincial government has had to apologise for using a picture of a British beach in their posters advertising how wonderful it is to live in Alberta.

A picture of a beach... advertising Alberta - which has no coastline of its own. And they're surprised people complained!

CBC News reportFunnily enough, I think I've been on holiday to ( Read more... )

Just spent two weeks in England/Ireland taking little miss trampledamage and young master trampledamage to meet their grandparents and aunts and uncles and new-born cousin - little miss trampledamage loved her, and was jumping up to help everytime her cousin was being taken away for a diaper change ( Read more... )

Andy Hallett who played Lorne on Angel has died of heart failure.

E-Online link, I had to click it twice to get through, hopefully it'll work okay