Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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12:37 pm - Purple toze all in my .... sock.
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My little toe (the one I banged on Sunday) has turned purple. It's not very fetching.
It doesn't hurt much, but the rest of the foot has started to ache because I'm walking strangely to avoid putting pressure on the sore place.
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
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9:56 pm - Yum
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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7:27 pm - Book Meme
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Don’t take too long to think about it.
Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
Copy the instructions into your own post.
nicked from donnickcottage amongst others...
( In no particular order )
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
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2:55 pm - Swan-fu
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
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9:27 pm - Playing with Javascript
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
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6:03 pm - Piggy Flu
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A local school (the posh private one) is closed for a week due to a suspected case of swine flu.
So the next door neighbour's kid has a week off.
He's in our front room at the moment, playing with Thomas. I can't hear any sneezing. :-)
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
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8:17 pm - Mutant Cakes
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8:26 am - Baking
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I helped Daniel make some fairy cakes yesterday. But since we don't have a muffin tin we just put the cake cases onto a flat baking tray. And we put too much mixture in some of the cases. And the cakes expanded in all weird directions.
So they're not fairy cakes, but deformed mutant monster cakes!
Still tasty though.
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
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9:39 pm - Dreamwidth
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
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8:30 pm - tin
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I forgot to mention, it was our 10 year wedding anniversary on Thursday. 10 years is tin/aluminium and Kathy bought me a case of cider (it's in tins!). Am currently drinking a few cans.
I bought her choccies...
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5:18 pm - Greasing the Monkey
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Still no job. Not that I've applied for any yet.
I've been working through the career/personality assessments from the Outplacement company and perusing a lot of employment sites. There aren't many jobs for my skillset, most programming jobs seem to be for web programming positions. But there are a few, that I'll be applying for soon.
Meanwhile, I'm looking after the kids a lot. Or kid, at the moment, since Thomas is in Wales on a camping trip with the Scouts. Daniel and I baked some cheesy biscuits. He wanted to make fairy cakes, but we don't have any self-raising flour (or raising agents). I've told him that they're fairy cheesy biscuits.
To keep my programming muscles working, I've installed Greasemonkey, a Firefox add-on that lets you run your own Javascript scripts on web pages to alter them. I've never used Javascript before, but it seems pretty straightforward. I've written something to let me ljcut long entries on my LJ friends list. Mainly to ljcut Feeds from blogs that are interesting to read once, but are always very long...
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
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2:39 pm - Mother's Day
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Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums out there. Unless you're in the US in which case I guess you have to wait. :)
I let the kids choose presents for Kathy. Thomas got her some chocolates, but Daniel chose a fluffy toy duck which goes quack if you squeeze it. She nearly got some bunny ears and a Dora the Explorer balloon, so it was a lucky escape.
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
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1:05 pm - Buzzy buzzy
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There's a huge fat bumble bee in the garden.
Daniel chased it, saying, "Come back bee! Come back bee!"
Then it turned round and chased him back to his climbing frame. :)
Now he's just yelling, "Bee! Bee!" from a distance.
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
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10:23 pm - Spring & writing
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We've had a gorgeous couple of days. It's like we've bypassed Spring and moved straight to Summer.
The only downside was the chill wind, but when it wasn't blowing you just needed a tee shirt.
And trousers, obviously.
The April Fools writing challenge is only a couple of weeks away, if anyone's looking for a spur to their writing it's worth a look. Just choose a word count goal, log into the friendly forums and feed off the energy. :)
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
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10:14 pm - kids
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Thomas is off on a Scout camp for a couple of days. They'll be staying in a hut rather than a tent, so at least they won't freeze. He's only got a 2 season sleeping bag so I hope he's not too cold.
Daniel's been asking where Thomas is. I think he's missing him. :)
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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8:04 am - Snow!
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I reckon we got about 3 inches.
I'm staying at home today.
Thomas might be too, but the school phone is engaged so we don't know if it's open or not.
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
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7:55 pm - Snowpocalypse Now!
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It's snowing.
The forecast is for up to 15cm (6") of snow overnight. Stop sniggering in Minnesota - it's a lot!
I'll probably work from home tomorrow, unless it turns out to be just a flurry.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
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11:01 am - And he's a trend setter too!
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Daniel has a pirate outfit. He likes being a pirate, to a degree that only a toddler[*] (or a monomaniac) can like something. I was washing his hair the other day and had to reassure him that it was pirate shampoo (luckily toddlers are delightfully gullible) before he let me use it.
Whenever his pirate outfit isn't actually filthy he wants to wear it. And recently he's started insisting on wearing it to nursery school (despite having a perfectly nice uniform - it's not compulsory, but quite sweet to see them all dressed up the same).
One of the staff told Kathy that they had a girl in a pirate outfit along yesterday. The girl's mother had tried to get her into her uniform, but the girl had explained that pirates were allowed - and the girl cited Daniel as a precedent. It's spreading!
Soon we'll be knee-deep in knee-high pirates!
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[*] now that he's 3, it doesn't seem right to call him a toddler any more... oh, well.
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
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8:43 pm - Burns Night
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We had a nice haggis supper in honour of Rabbie Burns tonight. Thomas and Daniel had fish fingers since the haggis was a little spicy for them (though Daniel ate all the haggis we put on his plate).
I may have a wee dram of whisky now. :)
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
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6:07 pm - Am now a Domestic Goddess
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I took the day off today and in the morning Daniel and I baked some cheesy biscuits.
Very cheesy, there was as much Stilton in them as flour.
We followed a Nigella recipe, but they turned out more like cheesy puffs than biscuits. I suspect I didn't roll out the dough thinly enough. Possibly because I had to roll them out with a pint glass. I'm sure we used to have a rolling pin, but we don't now.
Anyway, they're still very nice and rather moreish. And Daniel was very helpful. :)
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