Author: John

Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing is truly addictive. There is something endearing about all the little characters. You say – OK, Ill just pop in to check my mail – then suddenly you look at your watch and youve been there for an hour. You have to speak to all your friends or else they go in the

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We’re taking in a refugee……

We were having a rummage around on Ebay (no, we haven’t learned from the Ducky adventure) and stumbled across a guy who deals in Terrapi slavery 🙁 He keeps all kinds of Terrapis in captivity, to sell as collectors items and they never get played with or cuddled or anything. Anyway, while looking through the

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Cor blimey – I’m back at work.

Well, truth be told, I was back at work yesterday but it was a bit mad. One of the boxes in a cluster that we host decided to go a bit nuts and had to be resucitated. Problem is, the beggar is hosted at the other end of the country, so it all had to

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We all have the dreaded lurgi.

Poor Matthew had it worst – a raging fever that refused to break resulted in him spendingmost of Saturday in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The problem with these viruses is that they go through everyone like wildfire, but us parents just have to get on with looking after ill children as if we

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Time (mis)management

There just aren’t enough hours in the day, are there? I mean, you get home from work, try and spend an hour with the children before they’re passing out with exhaustion, get them all scrubbed and off to bed. You sit down with a nice cup of tea, play a video game for half an

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Ducky ducky duckduck

Well, Matthew has decided that Ducky is the best mode of transport known to mankind and he reckons we should sell the Mazda and use the pennies to buy presents for Ducky. He also thinks that ducky is some form of little boat. In other news, Animal Crossing arrived yesterday. Tristan, Matthew and I have

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Is that the rain I hear?

Well, after a fortnight of unseasonably warm weather, we finally had the mother of all thunderstorms last night. And just in time, too – the earth was like dust. Having Scotland bathed in sunshine for two weeks in the middle of April is not natural. My mother and father are just back from a trip

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Oh no! It’s the penultimate day of my holiday!

Eep! It’s been horrendously busy! Well, kinda. Spent a lot of time faffing about in the garden, doing some planting and tending, drinking beer, and so on. Picked up Zelda: Wind Waker and Super Monkey Ball 2 to review for Boomtown and managed to finally get the Sims review written. Gahhh. Zelda is simply the

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Something’s Afoot

Well, I’m on holiday this week. It’s yummy 🙂 Been scuffing about in the garden, playing games, doing all the life stuff that work gets in the way of. Anyway, during the week (so far) Debbie and I have noted an inexplicable increase in the amount of big white vans in the street. Also, Debbie

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It’s the hump of the week!

Wednesdays are interesting. Expecially around lunchtime. By the time you’re reached lunchtime, you’ve kinda dragged yourself up the hump of the week and are teetering on the summit seeing the vast expanse of Thursday and Friday zooming away at your feet toward the weekend. So, without further ado, we should let out a cry of

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