Author: John

How life is going part deux

Two weeks ago Harmony was offered a place at a local nursery just 10 minutes walk from the boys school. She loves it there. I cant believe that after the summer she starts her preschool nursery year. On June 9th John and I had our 15th Wedding Anniversary. Life is carrying on here and time

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Hi-Ho

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? It’s been a very strange couple of months. It’s taking some time to get back into the swing of being in our old house again. Even now, it doesn’t feel quite right. Everything is too new, a touch uncomfortable. I suppose it’s to be expected but it doesn’t make

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Our busy weekend

Well, we did it, we had the neighbours round on Saturday night for a Welcoming Party. It was very nice to have a social evening to talk to them and thank them for their help on the night of the fire. I feel that we have reached some kind of conclusion of the whole fire

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Water is the best toy

It is amazing how “going to the loo” involves a great deal of slittering. slittering being defined as playing with water with zeal. As defined by the dow book of knowledge. At the 2-3 year old stage it means making lovely sculptures with toilet paper and water in every possible surface in the bathroom. At

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Walkers Crisps

“Is there a twenty pound note in this bag?” proclaimed the flash on the front of the crisp bag. Well, was there? I don’t care – what the flash should say is “Are there any fucking crisps in this bag?”, and the answer to that was “barely”. Oh the bag looks big and puffy and

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It’s all coming together

Nelesoft’s first software release is on the cusp of completion. I reckon one late night caffiene-fuelled coding session will see it ready to go, bar testing. It’s quite exciting really. The development time has been a little, er, extended, but it’s come on leaps and bounds in the past few weeks. It’s my intention to

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If only it were possible….

….to create a kind of gag which would simultaneously stop a child from yapping but still allow them to eat their tea. I’d be rich! Rich, I tell you!

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