Gift for Haiti

After the terrible earthquake suffered by Haiti last week Meggie’s school is organising parcels for the children. Megan went to Tescos and bought some items to put in a box for a little girl including toothbrush, toothpaste, hair bands, pencils, colouring book, hairbrush etc. She also wrote a little note and drew a picture.

We also [...]

New Years Day

Happy new year!
Decided to try walking Poppy again but this time we would take her to the local park with Molly. This is only two minutes walk so we walked round with Poppy on the lead. This time she seemed a lot better.

Once at the park Megan played on the swings whilst Poppy ran around [...]

Nearly there

Megan has been so excited today, all she has done is run around the house shouting “it’s Christmas tomorrow”. I really wish it was as exciting for me as it obviously is for her.
It’s now Megan’s bedtime and for once she can’t wait. We have left out a mince pie and some milk for Santa [...]

Christmas Eve

Well its now Christmas Eve and I think we are pretty much ready (thanks mainly to Ally). Food bought, Pressies bought and wrapped. I think we have been in Tesco’s at least twice daily every day this week so far and its hell. Yesterday Ally went once to do the big food shop and I [...]

Snow

Well after all of the heavy snow and gale force wind warnings we got about 1 inch of snow with drifts of maybe 2 inches.  Bah humbug!

Ally is feeling really rough today with no sleep so I got Meggie ready for school (her last day today). Before school Meggie had a quick play in the snow whilst I de-snowed [...]

Father Christmas Video

Was given an excellent link to a site where you enter the name and details of your child and upload a photo. They then produce a video staring them. Brilliant and it was free. The site is called Portable North Pole.

Our video for Megan can be seen here but I’m not sure how long they [...]

Weather Station

I’ve always been fascinated by the weather and a couple of years ago I bought myself a semi-pro weather station (geeky I know). Whilst this had been installed I only had the display panels on the wall showing me the data so today I installed the weather logging software from Ambient. This logs and Analise’s [...]

Successful rug purchase

After finding out the brand of rug we had bought on Sunday I found a retailer online that sold the same one in the same colour only bigger – hoorah! As I was phoning Nasons to get a refund, I found out that they also sold the bigger version – yea! I guess it was [...]

Backing up a blog

I was scanning the Internet for a way to back up my blog and came across a product called Site Vault.  My blog is a self hosted version of word press so all of the files, images and database is held on my webspace. Site Vault allows you to connect to your web space and backup [...]

Christmas Tree

In an attempt to regain some fitness I took Molly for a walk up the woods this morning, it had rained but now the sun had come out (flipping cold though).  Unlike last weekend I managed the walk without half killing myself.
Got back and had a quick lunch before going out to get some bits [...]

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