So the guy from the stove place said his best guess for the cost of scaffolding, since the chimney pot is insufficiently secure, would be an additional £600!!! I could buy enough for less than that and do that bit of the job myself. Not only that but I’d also need scaff for repointing the […]
Munchkin had been given some “ultra-washable” felt tips by Shona & Stef. A day or two before we’d been to Baby Loves Disco as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. She’d had her face painted with black nose and whiskers. A reprise seemed the right thing under the circumstances! As an aside, another kid got himself
The weather has turned brilliant today. The wind’s dropped, the sun’s out and it’s a couple of degrees warmer. As the saying goes, it’s the difference between ‘Oh’ and ‘Ahhhhh’. Yesterday, Munchkin was on the beach in a shortie and borderline hypothermic. Today her and doglet ran around the beach at Dunrobin Castle in a
That’s us for our summer holiday up in Dornoch, on the North East coast of Scotland. There’s a large and gorgeous beach between the campsite and the Arctic Ocean. The latter is providing the icy cold wind driving across the site. It’s dry and sunny though, so not really complaining. Besides, both the children just
Friday it didn’t rain. It’s not pleasant refreshing outbursts either. Not 10 minutes and it’s done. No. How much more do we have to endure? Summer? Please?
It’s supposed to be summer. In fact it has been raining constantly for weeks. Really, apart from a couple of days in the last month it has been significantly wet every day. Right now I’m lying in bed and there are great big heavy gobs of rain banging on the window. For heavens sake, it’s
Telly is the new black. Munchkin is developing an increasing repertoire of programmes that she needs to keep up with! Most of them are watched from the closest possible geographic location. It’s a mystery she can make anything out with the foreshortening.
Blog up and running. Satisfactory theme installed; plenty of tweaking to go, but it supports the functionality I want just now. WPTouch installed to make reading on mobile less difficult. xml-rpc turned on and mobile client hooking in. The more I dig around, the more logical it seems to move the whole site onto WordPress.
That seems to be mobile blogging up and going. Raison numero uno for upgrading from the managed 1and1 blog.