The small person has been chosen to play Mary in the year one nativity play, this morning I was cornered by the teacher in charge of this theatrical event, “last year’s Mary was rather taller, could you just take up these robes a bit and perhaps give them a clean…” Of course I said yes … Mary
… and care about “web standards” then you might like to check out this week’s A List Apart, written by my other half, Drew McLellan.
The small person found an enormous wasp in her bedroom today. I don’t like wasps much, I especially don’t like wasps that are twice the size of your average, irritating with a mission to sit on your icecream, garden wasp. Drew was despatched to deal with the mega-wasp and we’re now searching on google for … Enormous wasps
I get some odd email, but tonight’s really takes the biscuit … sent to my business email address. Dear Rachel. I locate the market for a new fiancèe. You are interested? I too have all my car and to inhale to more things such as this. If you are sharpened, email less within one week … The mind boggles
The Reg have been running stories on one of my pet hates the last few days – banks and online services that lock out those using alternative (or anything other than Internet Explorer on Windows) browsers and operating systems. I’m not surprised that Natwest has been named as the most villainous site in this respect. … Why?
My open university exam is on Tuesday, I feel as if I have learned loads on my course but have no idea whether I will manage to scrawl it all onto the exam paper in three hours. One thing is sure, I’ll be relieved once it is over. I feel so wiped out at the … Tired
I love autumn. I’m not a summer person, even the south of England is too warm for this Northerner, and in the heat of August I long for the leaves to change and the crisp autumn mornings. I have my open university exam this month, I’ve done well in my essays but I haven’t done … October
I’ve been having tax form fun this week… but the forms are now safely in their brown envelopes ready to be sent off to the tax office tomorrow. I’m still having fun with my Zaurus – I found a neat chess game for it today which will give me something to do while I wait … ugh … tax
My new Zaurus arrived last Friday, it’s very cool… I’ve been wanting to get a PDA for some time, in order to try and tame the three diaries system I seem to have fallen into, and the Zaurus seemed like a good choice for me, I’m impressed with it so far.
I went down to town today, before the time of the silence. I needed to go to town, but I also wanted to be with other people at that point. All the shops had posters in their windows explaining they would be holding the silence at 1.46 (British Summer Time), at that time a whistle … An ordinary day