I'm just this guy... y'know? :)
The youngest daughter goes ice-skating and she really loves it. Whether she’ll become a world champion is open to some doubt of course, but she’s been having lessons three times a week and making progress. Her coach is Galina Pachin, who is an international world class skater. To see a couple of the stars Galina … More The politics of ice-skating.
Ok I know this ‘toe related’ rambling is getting tedious… but it’s a blog and if I can’t whinge here where can I do it? 🙂 So today, I got to the specialist after I managed to find a space at the other end of the car park. Naturally, as I approached the building itself … More Toe the line.
When we got the new fridge at the end of 2006 the old man insisted we should get extended warranty on it… luckily we did ‘cos it broke down last week! Yesterday I emptied and cleaned it out just in case it was something simple… like a need for a defrost or whatever… and plugged … More Extended Warranty: Woohoo!
The wife was going to change her user name to ‘Dogsbody’ but you aren’t allowed to modify names once they’re set. I was wondering if she’d like to register with this username… I thought it was cute 🙂 We’ll see!!
So… the toe is *still* infected and looks dire (to me), however the specialist tells me it looks much as he expected it to. He also says I’ll almost certainly need another operation to ‘cauterise’ the nail to stop it regrowing since it looks like it won’t regrow onto the bed properly. The wife was … More A bit more toe stuff.
September 17th saw us publishing a picture of a three year old New Zealand girl called Pumpkin (real name Xue Qian Xun) who’s father had apparently abandoned her at a railway station. We later learned that Pumpkin’s mother had been found dead in the boot of the car outside the family home and that her … More Pumpkin's father captured!
Today is the day when women can traditionally ask men to marry them instead of the more usual practice of the guy asking the girl. This is based on some obscure reference to the Scottish Paliament having passed a law in 1288 to that effect. Further, it would seem a man who refuses can be … More Feb 29th…
Questions have been asked if Prince Harry should be ‘allowed’ to go on active service in places where could come under fire and thus be placed in serious danger. Last year there was talk of sending him to Iraq, but that was rejected eventually for a variety of reasons, not least the publicity surrounding his … More Prince Harry on duty.
The weird weather patterns we’ve been receiving (both gratefully and grudgingly) have continued apace for the last few days. The skies have been *very* reminiscent of September in the UK i.e. grey and overcast. The rain has drizzled down or worse for what feels like months and to cap it all… the temperature this morning … More Weird weather marches onwards
Slight snag. The PDA wireless modem is refusing to connect to the telco WAP… which makes it a bit of a bugger trying to do *anything* online. Since we’ve had a lot of thunderstorms lately I’m giving the telco the benefit of the doubt and accept the slight possibility there might just be a problem … More Problems?
