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Word Of The Day application: Close attention; diligence: shows application to her work. Boy was I surprised! Sent Big up to my office with a book this morning to work her way through it on her own prior to reading it with me…….one hour later she was still hard at work. I think she reckons […]

Today’s word? delegate assign a task to (a person). Or otherwise, get some other sucker to do all the work. Big appears to be of the opinion that it is me that needs to learn all this stuff. Having decided that she wanted to do a card for mummy and got me to write out […]

A bit like unschooling? 🙁 Later Big and I are doing English. I plan on teaching her a new word: overacting n : poor acting by a ham actor [syn: hamming] overact v. tr: To act (a dramatic role) with unnecessary exaggeration.

“Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. “Soon, it will be.” Google Purge

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For the last couple of weeks I have been starting my days with a therapeutic walk, only a mile or two, but it has been a real pleasure to get out and get some exercise and fresh air on what have mainly been beautiful, bright summer mornings. I have got to be on nodding terms […]

Ever wondered what the point of the 2001 census was? Well without it, Brighton would have been unable to establish that it has more Jedi than anywhere else in the UK.

“……The property has maintained some period features including windows, …..” from estate agents particulars. How quaint, how novel, good Lord, fancy that. Windows! And there was me thinking they had gone completely out of fashion.