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A week-and-a-half

Deb — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:11:49 +0000

Well, a bit more, if I’m honest. More long-time-no-blog. Sigh. Okay. Beginning at the beginning. A week ago - ah, no, almost two weeks ago now - it was the end of British Summer Time. Not that we actually experienced a summer, you understand. As for all those people on the radio etc saying things like, [...]

Getting Nowhere Fast (Or Slow)

Deb — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:02:54 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of pointless driving. Not that I knew any of it was pointless while I was doing it, of course. On Thursday I drove to the airport three times. The first time, we left soon after 8 a.m., to take Scratchy to catch his flight to Newark, from where he would continue [...]

Absurd

Deb — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:05:37 +0000

We’ve been schools-film-weeking. Yesterday we went to see two movies - I booked both because usually something that we’ve booked gets cancelled. Of course this year that didn’t happen, so we went to watch The Golden Compass in the morning, and Ratatouille in the afternoon. We liked both of them. Barney and Toby had an arm-wrestling [...]

On and on and on

Deb — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:23:54 +0000

Oops, I forgot to publish this after I wrote it. But with the magic of Wordpress, you’ll never know I keep writing blog-posts. Unfortunately I mostly only write them in my head, so here’s another random-stuff-we’ve-been-doing post. Lots and lots of laundry, as I finally made it through all the kids’ clothes. Somehow Toby has [...]

I feel like the White Rabbit

Deb — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:07:56 +0000

From Alice in Wonderland, I mean. The one who needed more time. It’s been ages and ages since I blogged. Partly that’s because I’ve been so busy, partly it’s because I was sick and hiding in bed as much as possible for a couple of days, and partly it’s that on the rare occasions when [...]

Go Go Go

Deb — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:31:18 +0000

It’s been a busy few days, making up for lost time while we were sick, and trying to get back into some semblance of a routine - lost completely over the summer while I wasn’t up to running the place. As mentioned, we went out geocaching; afterwards the kids made most of sunny weather by [...]

The Treasure Hunt

Deb — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:38:31 +0000

We’ve been geocaching. We don’t own a GPS or a sat-nav or anything, but we weren’t going to let that stop us Cold… Still cold… Getting warmer: Oooh, burning fingers! Wahey! It was good fun, and I think we might have to consider asking Santa for a sat-nav system so we can actually do it properly. We know [...]

A lurgy lot

Deb — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:34:09 +0000

*cough* Excuse me while I *hack and splutter* The lurgy got us good. Scratchy was sick last weekend, and by the time he was getting better, it was Monday, he was back to work, and the rest of us were getting it. Fevers, coughs, sneezing - a houseful of it. Barney went off to a Battle [...]

A Plastic Bag and A Cup of Tea

Deb — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:19:52 +0000

We aimed to leave the house by 9 o’clock this morning - or rather, I aimed to do so; nobody else seemed to have any intention of being out before lunchtime. We walked out the door at 9.33. Why would we leave the house so early? (The schoolies can stop laughing - it’s early for us.) [...]

I knew I wouldn’t get this finished yesterday

Deb — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:15:37 +0000

I know, I know, it’s a bit of a shock - a post arriving only three four days after the previous one (assuming I get this post finished tonight - it’s entirely possible I’ll still be writing it on Monday… got it done on Sunday!) - but there you go. I blame the weather. I [...]