Making it up

Missing in action.

Jax — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:53:12 +0000

Inspired by the writing workshop, prompt 1, on Sleep is for the weak. I’ve been trying to find the time to sit down and write this for a couple of days now. I thought about various ppl I’ve lost touch with, but there’s really only one who counts. If I tried hard enough, I could probably find [...]

the answer is no

Jax — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:36:03 +0000

stirring a sprinkle of flour into the cheese sauce won’t make it thicker. Unless lumps qualify as thick. But in my defense, m’lud, it is very difficult to make a good roux sauce when you have either a screaming baby in a chair by your foot, or you pick her up and sit her on [...]

Forgot all about this

Jax — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:23:04 +0000

Apparently I already have a cafepress shop…

Having fun with wordle

Jax — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:23:46 +0000

Thinking about opening a spreadshirt or cafepress store so I can print up some T shirts

Another half week races by

Jax — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:22:39 +0000

and we’ve spent at least part of it making friends Music Weds, and there was a new family, with a boy about Small’s age. They sat down together and ever so solemnly discussed making friends, it was cute. And C, who has just moved to same town as us, made it just at [...]

My Kind Of Town

Tim — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:03:56 +0000

Officials in Pecica, a village town about 13 miles from the Hungarian border in the country’s west, ordered the bright red signs, complete with the phrase “Attention – Drunks”.

The Right of A True-Born Englishman

Tim — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:06:19 +0000

MP calls for burkas to be banned in Britain An MP has called for ministers to ban the wearing of burkas, branding it ”offensive” and ”against the British way of life”. Dear Mr Holloborne, how I dress is my business. If I choose to wear a burka, that is my business. Yes, I am male, so people [...]

Who are your friends?

Jax — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:26:19 +0000

Take a look around at your nearest and dearest friends. What do you have in common with them? Probably some interests that drew you together. Perhaps you are neighbours. Maybe you met them via your children’s interests – I’ve met two parents through Brownies and swimming since we’ve moved here that we’ve spent time with [...]

History on our bookshelf.

Jax — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:08:06 +0000

Yesterday I mentioned making Lord Woolton’s pie, working from a recipe in Wartime Cookbook that we got out of the library. Then last night when I was preparing tea (nothing exciting, chinese chicken bits from the coop with stir fry veg and rice) I noticed an elderly looking book on the bookshelf. [For anyone relatively new [...]

one handed blogging.

Jax — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:08:22 +0000

last post was about Friday. Since then: soa rolled over twice during a nappy change, and is becoming increasingly mobile on the floor. She also managed to wriggle herself around in the cot and pick up toys that I thought were out of her reach. Am loving watching her figure things out. Big and I have been [...]