Category Archives: family life

28 days later

Posted on April 6, 2007 by blogmywiki

This is the car driven by the woman who pulled into the parent and child space I was about to park in. She drove in at a sharp angle at quite high speed. Couldn’t see any children in her car. … Continue reading →

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Get down on your knees

Posted on March 10, 2007 by blogmywiki

Both exmonkey and I have noticed this: our jeans used to wear out at the crotch and now they wear out at the knees. Changing nappies, you see. Cyril Connolly is supposed to have said ‘the pram in the hallway … Continue reading →

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Innocence lost

Posted on February 26, 2007 by blogmywiki

With a slightly heavy heart I’ve had to install parental controls on the computer in the back room – which meant upgrading the G3 Tower of Power from MacOS 10.3 to 10.4 (Tiger). The boys had been looking at some … Continue reading →

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Dreams come true

Posted on February 25, 2007 by blogmywiki

I kept dreaming of a new kind of laptop. I kept drawing it and doodling it. It would be about the size of an A4 sheet of paper, have Wifi, run some kind of Linux and – crucially – have … Continue reading →

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Tank Park Salute

Posted on January 25, 2007 by blogmywiki

Today on BBC 6 Music, Gideon Coe was getting listeners to vote for ‘great lost tear-jerkers’. Three tracks to choose from, including ‘Ship-building’ by Robert Wyatt and ‘Tank Park Salute’. I hadn’t heard ‘Tank Park Salute’ for years, all my … Continue reading →

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