A brief update whilst dinner is cooking. I finally have a day off so can cook up something proper, not from a jar. Heh listen to me being the foodie! I merely stand in the shadow of Paulie's Foodieness though.
Anyway. I've been at work the last 7 days straight, the probationer crew I'm in charge of are turning out to be fairly decent. One or two need a little more patience than others but we'll get there in the end.
I am rapidly losing many other days off- got three phone calls today saying people are needed for this that and the other. Working new year's day now (which isn't so bad, at least it's double time) and I've lost next weekend now as the BNP have decided to have a march round bits of london and unsurprisingly we don't let them go round quite as they please.
Bec is as busy as always at work, for those who think a teachers day finishes at 3.15pm Bec finally got home at 6.10, and got straight into planning future work.
Rightyo beepers galore going time to go nosh!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
Uncle K & Auntie R!
Official!
Tamsin has finally given birth to 8 1/2 pound of genuine Alaskan sprog! Had phone call confirming that at 3 am our time, 6pm Anchorage time. Which means she shares a birthday with the hairiest member of the J-R clan, Denski.
Last update is both are doing fine, albeit probably in need of a little sleep.
Jimbob has already pinged round a number of photos, which I hope he doesn't mind showing here........
Welcome to the world Lilian! I expect to see on the T-Birds Blog several more photos over the coming weeks, of her all wrapped up to twice her regular size. It is -18 deg over there after all.
Congratulations Jimbob and Tamsin :-)
Tamsin has finally given birth to 8 1/2 pound of genuine Alaskan sprog! Had phone call confirming that at 3 am our time, 6pm Anchorage time. Which means she shares a birthday with the hairiest member of the J-R clan, Denski.
Last update is both are doing fine, albeit probably in need of a little sleep.
Jimbob has already pinged round a number of photos, which I hope he doesn't mind showing here........
Welcome to the world Lilian! I expect to see on the T-Birds Blog several more photos over the coming weeks, of her all wrapped up to twice her regular size. It is -18 deg over there after all.
Congratulations Jimbob and Tamsin :-)
Fleabrain furball
Rubbish blogger. As soon as it lets me change to the beta I will, for the last post was published three times, even though it told me it failed twice.
Anyway.
At request of people on the other side of the pond (who have probably needed distracting over the last few months!) pictures of halfwit cat for your pleasure.
She truly is a madam. A few weeks ago, whilst it was still warm and dry outside, she was keen to get outside and sniff around. However, she went out on Sunday after meowing at Bec. She went outside for all of 2 minutes before shooting back in, mewing incessantly at Bec until she dried her paws, as the grass was wet. What a lightweight cat!
Most of the rest of the time, she is a soppy floppy thing. She has got into the habit of getting on our bed just as we are planning on getting into it. This either means one of two things- she is in a fuss-me mood and will purr away whilst being stroked, or she's in a mad mood and any limb exposed is jumped on. Bec is quite annoyed as her hands have dozens of little scratches on where she's been attacked!
Anyway.
At request of people on the other side of the pond (who have probably needed distracting over the last few months!) pictures of halfwit cat for your pleasure.
She truly is a madam. A few weeks ago, whilst it was still warm and dry outside, she was keen to get outside and sniff around. However, she went out on Sunday after meowing at Bec. She went outside for all of 2 minutes before shooting back in, mewing incessantly at Bec until she dried her paws, as the grass was wet. What a lightweight cat!
Most of the rest of the time, she is a soppy floppy thing. She has got into the habit of getting on our bed just as we are planning on getting into it. This either means one of two things- she is in a fuss-me mood and will purr away whilst being stroked, or she's in a mad mood and any limb exposed is jumped on. Bec is quite annoyed as her hands have dozens of little scratches on where she's been attacked!
These are from the other night where it is quite evident she is in a lazy mood.....
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Chinese Cheese
Second attempt at posting. Blogger died first time. Very annoying!
Paul I will try and switch to Beta some point, as soon as it let me. It says that only a select number were selected for trial to start with, so I'll have to put up with it being periodically rubbish for the time being.
Anyway: last weekend. Frans birthday! Myself, wife and 16 others piled into a chinese restaurant and generally had a good time and gave the waiter a headache, all in honour of Fran. The photo we have of her isn't particularly great (down to my camera work, not Fran) so wander over to her site to have a look at a much better photo!
Hairy Beast was there, and was living up to his moniker. He truly was a hairy beast. But anyway as ever: cue cheesy photos....
A good time had by all. Weekends are so ridiculously short, I tell you. Was very tedious to be back on the A120 home again.
Paul I will try and switch to Beta some point, as soon as it let me. It says that only a select number were selected for trial to start with, so I'll have to put up with it being periodically rubbish for the time being.
Anyway: last weekend. Frans birthday! Myself, wife and 16 others piled into a chinese restaurant and generally had a good time and gave the waiter a headache, all in honour of Fran. The photo we have of her isn't particularly great (down to my camera work, not Fran) so wander over to her site to have a look at a much better photo!
Hairy Beast was there, and was living up to his moniker. He truly was a hairy beast. But anyway as ever: cue cheesy photos....
I have no idea what was going through their heads for this one
I somehow have myself a right desperate dan chin situation going on
A good time had by all. Weekends are so ridiculously short, I tell you. Was very tedious to be back on the A120 home again.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Fireworks!
Fairly non-eventful week these parts of the world, excepting Bec having her class take the school assembly on friday, which was a source of much pre-event envisaging of every possible thing going wrong. However, it all passed off peacefully and everyone even remembered their lines. I spent the week also trying to think of everything that could go wrong with all the recruits and tutors arriving tomorrow, and trying to figure out what to do if it should!
I had my second game of rugby of this season on saturday. I lasted about 5 minutes before making (if I say so myself) a fine try saving tackle which also had the unintended consequence of my head making contact with his knee with both of us going full bore. I still have the echoes of a headache today.
However on the Saturday I did recover sufficiently enough to go off and see some fireworks for Guy Fawkes night (for any confused non-brits: see here). We were joined by the Cooke, who was back on these shores having temporarily foregone warm Italian autumn climes for chilly English Novemberness. She also persuaded Roberto the Italian Stallion (and indeed, the reason behind her ex-patriation to Rome) to come over.
It took about 5 attempts to get this photo. Trying to see un-illuminated little icons on a camera in pitch black is quite difficult I'll have you know.
I had my second game of rugby of this season on saturday. I lasted about 5 minutes before making (if I say so myself) a fine try saving tackle which also had the unintended consequence of my head making contact with his knee with both of us going full bore. I still have the echoes of a headache today.
However on the Saturday I did recover sufficiently enough to go off and see some fireworks for Guy Fawkes night (for any confused non-brits: see here). We were joined by the Cooke, who was back on these shores having temporarily foregone warm Italian autumn climes for chilly English Novemberness. She also persuaded Roberto the Italian Stallion (and indeed, the reason behind her ex-patriation to Rome) to come over.
It took about 5 attempts to get this photo. Trying to see un-illuminated little icons on a camera in pitch black is quite difficult I'll have you know.
Once the fireworks had whizzed and banged away the second traditional part to Guy Fawkes night commenced, which is the very untechnical but still somewhat satisfying damn great bonfire.
Despite there being enough heat to toast a small family pet, Bec still manages to look cold
Once we had had enough of our eyebrows being singed we went down our local boozer which also happens to do a fine line in top nosh that even Paulie wouldn't mind having a bit of. All in all, rather good night.
Next week will be its usual state of chaos.... all my newbies will finally arrive and I have to master the art of looking like I know what I'm doing! Heh I do really. Most of the time ;-)
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