NaBloPoMo day 30 – I made it!!

Here it is, the last day of NaBloPoMo ‘08, and I’ve posted every single day! Yay me! So NaNoWriMo didn’t quite happen, but I managed this, so I’m proud! I’ve also got quite a long way into my Christmas preparations, so all in all, a good month has been had.
I’ve enjoyed the challenge of composing [...]

A grown up evening – for a change!

Well, GG and I have had a lovely evening tonight. My sister in law and her partner took us out for our birthday meal (our birthdays are in June, but she’s a little late!) and we chose to go to a Thai restaurant as I love Thai food if I cook it myself or buy [...]

Apparently, I’m a lovely person in Blogland!

Your Blogging Type is Kind and Harmonious

You’re an approachable blogger who tends to have many online friends.
People new to your blogging circle know they can count on you for support.
You tend to mediate fighting and drama. You set a cooperative tone.
You have a great eye for design – and your blog tends to be the [...]

Cliffy’s coming back!

Yay! I was brought up (as my mother has ever been an adoring fan) on Cliff Richard and the Shadows music. It’s such happy music, and always brings back many happy childhood memories! Anyway, Cliff and the Shadows are doing a reunion tour next year – guess whose mother would like to go to that? [...]

Once again, measles is in the news.

The BBC are reporting today about the high number of cases of measles that the UK have seen this year, relatively to previous years. The increase is believed to be due to the reduced take up of the vaccines. I’ve written about this topic before, and my pro-immunisation stance should be known to my regular [...]

My Mum will be so proud!

I have always been fairly useless at geography, but my mum will be relieved to read this;

You Passed 8th Grade Geography

Congratulations, you got 7/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Geography?
Yay me! I’ve no idea how old someone in eighth grade would be (11? 12?) but I’m happy with that!
Also, I wasn’t very good at science [...]

Addicted to the internet!

I know and am confident that I am not alone in this addiction. My day is not complete and I feel edgy if I don’t turn my laptop on all day. NaBloPoMo really hasn’t been that much of a problem this month, as I’ve been online at least once a day anyway without any extra [...]

Christmas presents

My blog post today isn’t so much a blog post as a straw poll. The questions I want answered are these: If you were to receive a home-made Christmas present, would you be pleased and touched at the time and effort that had gone into making it, or would you be really disappointed that your [...]

NaBloPoMo cop out…or is it?

So, I’ve been tagged. By Welshpurpletree. To tell you all six interesting things about myself. Hmm. The salient point is ‘interesting’, and I think that will probably be the hardest point as well. I may have to wait for my husband to come back into the room and help me think of stuff. And after [...]

And the news at 10.12 is…

I have officially decided to give up on this year’s attempt at NaNoWriMo. I just haven’t wanted to do it for the last two weeks, and I’ve decided that I’ve got too many other things to get done to waste many, many hours typing out random drivel which neither I nor anyone else will ever [...]