A quick note

Hullo. We’re not using ujournal anymore. I’ve migrated this site to iBlog, which allows me to keep a handy backup of stuff and not rely on third party hosting sites. If you’ve bookmarked this page, please go to http://www.nelefa.org and bookmark that instead. A note from the future. Given that uJournal.org disappeared up its own

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7am? What? There’s no such time!

Well, there is in our house. These kids get up at 6am every single day. It’s not normal, I tell you. It’s a bit strange and unreal. Watching the CBBC and there’s some pillock making endless tasteless jokes about bonfire night and Iraq. Too early in the day for that kind of thing. I can’t

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…and yet another thing…

Thank God for online shopping, that’s all I have to say. I can sit in front of my little iMac and visit twenty different online vendors, buying everything from Tallboys to teaspoons, and set a delivery date when it all pops up on my doorstep. When you have to replace the entire contents of your

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…and another thing

The one thing, over everything else, that’s getting on my nerves about this whole “being burned out of our house” thing is the lack of a decent kitchen. The kitchen at our rented place is adequate, but nothing more. I love cooking, you see. Almost as much as I love videogames. The current kitchen is

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Oh for heaven’s sake, just get on with it!

We’re nearly there! We’ve been in a shopping frenzy for the past few days, getting together all the emergency stuff that we need to have to move back in; washing machine, drier, beds, tables, sofas, that kind of thing. Trouble is, we’re hoping to be back into our house in two weeks time but the

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Gaaaaaah shopping

Well, we went off to Comet on Friday, clutching a big wad of vouchers supplied by the insurance company (otherwise we’d have gone somewhere decent). Anyhoo, much wandering about, cogitating, and deliberating later, we order a pile of white goods – fridge, freezer, dishwasher, etc. They’re being delivered on the 4th of November, so things

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Yesterday was Dotty’s birthday

(Or Doday, in Dotty speak). She was very pleased with a little Snow White dolly, and even more pleased with her great big cake. As birthdays go, it was pretty bare bones due to the severe lack of folding monetary units available, but once we get some insurance money through we’ll find some “fogotten presents”.

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Today, I have been mostly…

playing Halo on Legendary difficulty (XBox version, of course – not the slideshow that masquerades as the PC version). God, it’s tough! Three hours in and I’m still not off the first level. On normal difficulty, you get through level one by, er, running and shooting. On Legendary, you have tactical firefights at every single

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Oh, for heaven’s sake!

Image to be replaced. Oops! I think we probably work the girlies in this family a little too hard. This is Debbie and Harmony doing their best Tom Baker impressions at 3 O’clock in the afternoon.

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Let’s move on

Things are progressing quickly with the house now. We are both feeling somewhat unsettled. Dont want to spend time in the house thats not home. Yesterday saw the kids having fun in the back garden here in the golden autumn sunshine, John cooking apple pies with the wee ones and flour footprints and me repotting

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