Sorry Guys! (by sarah)

Yet again I have been a bad blogger 🙁

I have been ill and pre-occupied with the many interesting things that decide to happen to us - I actually have several posts waiting to go live that were written ages ago now - sigh.

I'm suffering insomnia so I might sort them out now - or I might write some fresh stuff - who knows - I might even just fall asleep!

WordPress upgrade (by alaric)

I've upgraded the blog to the latest WordPress at the time of writing (2.0.4).

Perhaps this will fix the problem with our RSS feeds!

Also, it's let me use some of the newer plugins, such as the creative commons one (note our nice Creative Commons licence link logo in the 'meta' section on the right - and the nice RDF licensing metadata in the HTML source!)

I've also added plugins that generate siteinfo.xml and sitemap.xml files. The more metadata, the merrier.

Jean knows what the potties for! (by sarah)

Yes it is obviouslt for posting all the magnetic alphebet letters in - she spent ages crawling backwards and forwords to get the letters off the fridge and place them carefully in the potty.

She and the kittens have also been helping with the house work!

Jean spent yesturday giving me things she had fetched - unfortunatly one of these helpful items was the bag of nappy sacks - the sacks all fell out. The kittens then decided they would help tidy these up - the landing and bathroom floor were covered but then JEan helpfully picked them all up and gave them to me - with uber amounts of enthusiasm!

The kittens also decided that I wasnt being fast enough with my bead work and that the sharring elastic needed to be on the other side of the room!

Disclaimer - no babies or kittens were left on their own at any time with horrid bags that could suffocate or choke them!

A weekend away (by sarah)

Ok this post has been hanging around to long now - I will endevour to sort phots out later - this is going live like it or not!

Two weekends ago now lots of fun stuff happened which never got blogged about due to the 'jinx' stuff so I thought I'd best catch up on writting about it 🙂

First off there was Thursday, after the business stuff was done and sealed in London, we went to Charlee's perants house to meet up with her and Andy as me and Jean hadnt made it into zone one due to the heat! This was a very pleasant evening were I got given a wonderful purple top with sparkly beads and got to take photos of more cats! Plus I was impressed with the techno garden set up 🙂

Jean really loved it 🙂

Friday was the Front Wire Summer party in Guilford - so off me and Al went to that, it was another nice day with the added bonus of the trapoline!

I found some strange statues in the garden called Paul, Al and Seth!

I was very happy at this party surrounded by geeks doing sport!

Saturday saw us in Romford market buying stupid quantities of bombay mix! as we havent found anywhere that even comes near the fruit and nut stall. We also bought all the prizes for the village feast tomboler whilst we were at it. Then off into London again to meet up with people - a loo stop at Ikea which closes at midnight! resulted in me getting the alien rainbow knives, forks and spoons I saw at the beginning of the pregnancy and wanted to wean Jean with 🙂 I still cant imagine who would desperatly need furniture at 11 at night though?!

Sunday saw my Dad's thing at Rainham Methodist church were Jean made some friends! Followed by a flyby visit to more friends and a charity tea and cake session. (sorry this is probably boring to anyone whos not family). Then of course we picked Mini up and had a lovely everning with Earl and Rime - they have a great roof space where you can see loads of London with funky pigeons and pipes everywhere 🙂

Oops! (by sarah)

Ok on the cooking front I have learnt two valuable leasons this week 1) when making a sponge don't use the electric whisk as the cake collapses and 2) don't try and soup Protien Chunk Gunk unless you like ministroni type soups and even then beware!

p.s. Al eat the soup!