She said she wanted to learn to cook. Delia seems a good way to go to me. 🙂 I had thought it might be desperately over-technical, in fact she seems to be managing the writing rather well, .
General
Long, hard day
Thursday, 19th April, 2007
Idyllic (more from estate agents)
“Set within an idyllic location between the Rochdale Canal and the river…” That’ll be on the flood plain then. On the bright side, when the market crashes, the owner of this house won’t be left high and dry. 🙂
Party in Brighouse
Not quite sure what was going on here. They had fun, ran round like maniacs, ate jelly and ice cream, bounced up and down on the trampoline, ran around some more, played pass the parcel and then ran around like maniacs some more. I waited to drive them home. Jax has gone off to bed […]
Big and grandma
We went to visit Jax’s parents yesterday. Her stepfather has just been into hospital for some maintenance and repair so we were doing “visiting”. Big is rapidly catching up on grandma, shoe sizes nearly the same, etc. So we are eagerly anticipating cast offs….. next year MP camp, expect to see an eight year old, […]
Steaming
On Thursday, I took Lily, Big and Small for a day on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Ever since we went there last year Big has been begging to be taken again, Lily was home from university, so we picked her up on the way through Halifax. We parked at Oxenhope and took the […]
Wikipedia Meme (Big)
Big (16th January) 3 Events 1909 – Ernest Shackleton‘s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. 2006 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia‘s new president. She becomes Africa‘s first female elected head of state. 2007 – Tri-Centenary of the United Kingdom. (1707 – The Scottish Parliament, ratified the Act of Union, paving way for […]
Wikipedia Meme (Small)
Small (29th May) 3 Events 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s 39th birthday. 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match. 1660 […]
Wikipedia Meme – Your Birthday
Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday month and day only. (originally seen at Atypical Homeschool – defunct in 2024) Mine (27th May) 3 Events 1257 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.[3] 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to […]
The Trisha Goddard Show
Comes on immediately after the children’s programming on 5. So this morning I find Big in tv trance watching it. Frankly, I’d rather she watched porn.