The guys have started on the loft. Last Friday we had the scaffolding up. Well not all the scaffolding, they ‘forgot’ the shorter poles for the side of the house. Today I woke to the sound of the builders chatting outside over mugs of tea. They were hoping that the scaffolding would arrive so that …
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First day back
The first ‘official’ day back at work. I am hoping that our luck will turn for the better this year. It really did end on a horrible note. It was dark when I left the house, it was also cold and a fresh dusting of snow had fallen during the night. Did I cycle? Did …
Oh noro!
Jake woke in the night crying. We went into his bedroom to see what was wrong and the poor lamb was sitting on his bed with a pile of sick next to him. I picked him up and he continued to be sick a couple of times. He kept saying “I’m poorly” and “I don’t …
Pillow frogs
We heard Jake laughing in the middle of the night in his sleep. Today we asked him what he was dreaming. He said that frogs were jumping on his pillow and tickling his face. I think the culprit may have been his tags. It was lovely to hear him giggling like that :-).
Jake’s sayings
Amy told Jake that if he had too much sugar his teeth would fall out. At which point he made an imaginary arc from his mouth and went oooh. i.e. pretending that a tooth had fallen from his mouth. He did the same thing in the Restaurant today after he tasted some ice cream. He …
Beer and Curry
I had a nice time last night. We started at the ‘Hole In The Wall’ opposite Waterloo Station, for a couple of beers then had a couple more and a curry at the Thames Curry House. It was good to catch up with all the news. Mike is now living is Ealing but may venture …
No cycling
I am meeting up with my photographer friend Mike this evening. I was umming and ahhing whether to take the bike but in the end common sense prevailed. After all, it may be a messy one. Jake woke at 6.45am and obvously had something on his mind because after doing a big fat poo in …
Christmas cheer
I have just come back from our Christmas lunch at the local Chinese restaurant. This year, what with the credit crunch we had to pay for our own lunch. Boo! It was very nice and was washed down with a couple of pints of Chinese beer. The name fails me but it was something like …
J-J-Jake
Jake has started to stutter. In fact, sometimes he does it for so long that he forgets what he was going to say! At first this was very amusing. However, now that he knows that it gets a laugh he does it for effect! Amy has read up on this and the advice is to …
Asus Eeepc 901
Amy has been enjoying her Asus Eeepc although yesterday I spied her on the old laptop. Beast! She thinks the Eeepc is a little sluggish. I guess I’ll have to upgrade the memory to 2Gb and enable the page file. That should speed it up. When I setup the PC I moved her logon profile …