Me and Al are currently finishing off the yummy carrot cake his Aunt and Uncle bought us last weekend along with my favourite - duck eggs! 🙂 It was a real treat having them visit - I say weekend but they arrived late Sunday due to some missadventure on Roderick's part involving the Isle of Wight and a Spitefire!
As well as them there was Helens Mother Beatrice who was lovely and on an extended visit to this country - If I can get a hold of a copy of the pictures I will post them! Helen looked really cool with Jean in an Africian style baby bum carrier (dont know the correct term!) made of our Rainbow blanket - Jean loved it.
I also managed my first dinner party for six plus baby - with Als help naturally 🙂
For started we did nachos with home made guacamole and salsa etc... For the main we had filo passels that we constructed out of feta and home grown spinache with a wild leaf salad of mine and Als own devising, then a pasta salad and some mederterian veg, potatoe salad and calsaw made their way to the table as well (didnt make these as they take for ever - especially the calsaw). For dessert we had brandy snap baskets (again I had to buy these as didnt have time to make them) filled with red berrys of various sorts coverred in a berry icecream (I'd run out of home made icecream as well so felt guilty it was shop bought!) covered in hedgerow source which I made in the autum.
Hmmm woundering weather we should have a category labeled recipes on here - if anyones interested let me know (Charlee).
Anyway it was much fun especially as the old box speakers of mums and dads found a temperary home with the bodging repair of Babaras sound system!
Today I went into the stable to do the laundary to find that Tim had left me a presant right in frount of the washing machine. This presant was a pair of rabbit PJ's Tim being the fat feline he is must have eaten the rest - I scooped it up with a trowl and deposited it outside. He'll be peed off with me but then he's a cat and I dont want rabbit entrials on my clean washing!
Poor Jean - she's had a snuffly nose for a few days, and has been generally unhappy about it and hard to get to sleep at night. She's been spending lots of nights in with us.
However, today, while I was away in Bournemouth, she started projectile vomiting, so Sarah took her in to the doctor, who said she had some kind of virus. She has to go in again tomorrow to see how she's doing, and in the meantime is on high dosages of Calpol.
I will probably postpone my visit to London tomorrow, because it's been pretty hard on Sarah looking after a very grumpy baby on her own 🙁
Today, I attended a Nominet Members Lunch.
Nominet are the organisation in charge of the .uk domain name hierarchy. My company is a member of Nominet, giving us voting rights, and a "tag holder", meaning we can create .uk domain names and are charged "cost price" by Nominet for running the root .uk name servers and administrative procedures.
It was brilliant - my company are a very small member, yet I sat and chatted with the Chief Executive about issues facing Nominet. There are not many systems about where a "little guy" who wants to discuss how something is run can have lunch with the Chief Executive and other staff (in this case, Nominet's IT and Marketing/Communications directors) and chat about it.
Yet I worry that, in theory, the 3,000 odd Nominet members could all sign up for the Lunches, drink free wine, eat free food, and discuss football. It's one of those wonderful things that works beautifully because nobody's thought to try and spam it yet...
I went, not because I have a particular political axe to grind, but because one of the points that came up at the EGM is that a lot of the members aren't getting involved in Nominet governance; and so I felt I, as somebody who will never make much money from .uk domain name registrations so whose views on it are purely from a making-the-Internet-cool perspective, should set a good example to others by making my voice heard. Plus, I like getting into a good debate. We discussed EPP, IPv6, Nominet's voting rights, expanding the scope of Nominet to bid for ENUM and .eu, and other issues.
Ah, I couldn't resist. I bought some NetBSD "devotionalia".
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The Family | sarah | 
Sat 20th May 2006 10:28 am | 
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