That's what I have done so far!
A roof, and a duck.
I'll get there.
I'll post photos soon hopefully.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Stitching project number 1
I've started sewing again!
I have time (thankyou Fly lady) and I will do this. I am going to make my Godson a Noah's ark for his birthday, and then hopefully some rag dolls for the beautiful Child Abroad, the wonderful Oxford pair, and maybe for some lovely children I know here.
I spent a lovely morning with a pram adn a 3 month old, walking, talking, shopping, just, doing really, whilst his mothr had chance for a sleep, a shower on her own, all that kind of thing. It was .................. what it was.
I feel very reflective today. I know that I have come to the decision that I needed to come to. I feel calm, and centred, and some how ready for whatever comes my way. No doubt there will be attempts at trouble from those outside our little corner of the world, and right now, I don't care. I am tired of their petty games, their small minded attitudes, their victim complex. It is a complete dichotomy, that they (and there is more than one) should have a victim complex alongside a determination that everything is someone else's fault, for they cannot, will not believe that they have any responsibility. Any attempt to show that they have some, not all, but some, responsibility for their situation through the decisions that *they* made, is taken as saying *everything* is their fault.
*sigh*
There is nothing I can do about that. So I shall, for now, do nothing, but stitch love into this Noah's Ark.
I have time (thankyou Fly lady) and I will do this. I am going to make my Godson a Noah's ark for his birthday, and then hopefully some rag dolls for the beautiful Child Abroad, the wonderful Oxford pair, and maybe for some lovely children I know here.
I spent a lovely morning with a pram adn a 3 month old, walking, talking, shopping, just, doing really, whilst his mothr had chance for a sleep, a shower on her own, all that kind of thing. It was .................. what it was.
I feel very reflective today. I know that I have come to the decision that I needed to come to. I feel calm, and centred, and some how ready for whatever comes my way. No doubt there will be attempts at trouble from those outside our little corner of the world, and right now, I don't care. I am tired of their petty games, their small minded attitudes, their victim complex. It is a complete dichotomy, that they (and there is more than one) should have a victim complex alongside a determination that everything is someone else's fault, for they cannot, will not believe that they have any responsibility. Any attempt to show that they have some, not all, but some, responsibility for their situation through the decisions that *they* made, is taken as saying *everything* is their fault.
*sigh*
There is nothing I can do about that. So I shall, for now, do nothing, but stitch love into this Noah's Ark.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Found a new timer....
..... and it's great.
Especially if you work off of two monitors, like I do!
I can have the timer on one monitor, and the work on the other, and keep up to date with them in the middle.
It's a free trial called countdown sequence or something, and I'm going to trial it at school for keeping the children on track with tasks. I know some of them struggle with the idea of a set amount of time, so this should show them how much time they have left for their task, and hopefully allow them to work out what they can do and how to complete it.
Aside from that the day was good. The course was good this morning and the boss binned me from it this afternoon because I was so exhausted from being up with Sam last night.
And the fanfare has gone off, so I must go and clear the bed!
Especially if you work off of two monitors, like I do!
I can have the timer on one monitor, and the work on the other, and keep up to date with them in the middle.
It's a free trial called countdown sequence or something, and I'm going to trial it at school for keeping the children on track with tasks. I know some of them struggle with the idea of a set amount of time, so this should show them how much time they have left for their task, and hopefully allow them to work out what they can do and how to complete it.
Aside from that the day was good. The course was good this morning and the boss binned me from it this afternoon because I was so exhausted from being up with Sam last night.
And the fanfare has gone off, so I must go and clear the bed!
Survival?
I survived the assault, although Ihave to return to battle this morning as I left it to go and have a soppy phonecall with the missing Man. *sigh*
I have about 30 minutes this morning. Wish me luck..................
I have about 30 minutes this morning. Wish me luck..................
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
So it's been a while, yes?
Bonjour mes amis, as the French say but no doubt spell correctly.
It has been a while since I wrote on here, as I went back to school and all went the shape of the pear.
School is great, the children are wonderful but hard work, the parents are great but harder work, and the colleagues are both ends of the spectrum. Hey ho. It's half term next week and life will chill out for a bit as I use the half term to catch up on stuff that just couldn't be done in the term time as we all got used to each other.
I got the Technician to sort out the HIstory CD's in the end, only to find that they were already on there and had been for weeks whilst I was getting it in the neck from all angles.
And now it's almost 3 hours later. I've found the bedroom floor through the simple method of piling stuff on the bed. This will enable me to move the chests of drawers and so on, so that I can put them where I want them and then I can load them up. I've spoken to the Man who is away tonight and he loves me and he misses me and so on. (I know, it's disgusting how loved up we still are after all this time!) and he has reminded me that I haven't had any tea, so I flipping well should. He loves me whatever shape I am, I know, but I also know he likes the UK size 10 me and doesn't want me shrinking any further. He knows I lose weight when I'm stressed, and that heaven knows there is enough to stress me right now!
But hey, what doesn't kill me makes me stronger right?
I am off to make an assault on the bedroom once more, for 12 minutes whilst the pasta cooks. If you smell burning spag bol, please inform my next of kin, and I leave all my worldly wealth to the Man and my brother, in trust for the Adorable Child, as this will mean that the evil civilisation of dust monsters under the bed have claimed me as a sacrificial victim.
Or I forgot I put it on. One of the two.
It has been a while since I wrote on here, as I went back to school and all went the shape of the pear.
School is great, the children are wonderful but hard work, the parents are great but harder work, and the colleagues are both ends of the spectrum. Hey ho. It's half term next week and life will chill out for a bit as I use the half term to catch up on stuff that just couldn't be done in the term time as we all got used to each other.
I got the Technician to sort out the HIstory CD's in the end, only to find that they were already on there and had been for weeks whilst I was getting it in the neck from all angles.
And now it's almost 3 hours later. I've found the bedroom floor through the simple method of piling stuff on the bed. This will enable me to move the chests of drawers and so on, so that I can put them where I want them and then I can load them up. I've spoken to the Man who is away tonight and he loves me and he misses me and so on. (I know, it's disgusting how loved up we still are after all this time!) and he has reminded me that I haven't had any tea, so I flipping well should. He loves me whatever shape I am, I know, but I also know he likes the UK size 10 me and doesn't want me shrinking any further. He knows I lose weight when I'm stressed, and that heaven knows there is enough to stress me right now!
But hey, what doesn't kill me makes me stronger right?
I am off to make an assault on the bedroom once more, for 12 minutes whilst the pasta cooks. If you smell burning spag bol, please inform my next of kin, and I leave all my worldly wealth to the Man and my brother, in trust for the Adorable Child, as this will mean that the evil civilisation of dust monsters under the bed have claimed me as a sacrificial victim.
Or I forgot I put it on. One of the two.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Electricity
All of the electricity has been replaced in the kitchen as the entire kitchen was being run from about 2 sockets and a bar lead. Rich ran the wires through first, leaving loops for the sockets, then went back and wired in the 2gang sockets.
Of course, this had to be done mainly with the power off, for obvious safety reasons! Thankfully, a rather wonderful little girl got her Daddy a useful torch for just this kind of thing. (you know who you are!)
This is when Daddy looks at the camera. Not useful!
This is what Daddy can see when he is working with his headlight. Much more helpful!
and this is Rich posing with the new socket tester he got. It's excellent, and basically plugs in, then says what is wrong with the wiring. In this case, nothing (obviously!)
Of course, this had to be done mainly with the power off, for obvious safety reasons! Thankfully, a rather wonderful little girl got her Daddy a useful torch for just this kind of thing. (you know who you are!)
This is when Daddy looks at the camera. Not useful!
This is what Daddy can see when he is working with his headlight. Much more helpful!
and this is Rich posing with the new socket tester he got. It's excellent, and basically plugs in, then says what is wrong with the wiring. In this case, nothing (obviously!)
Sealing the plaster with paint
Whilst Rich was doing all this (Ivan having gone home to his lovely missus and nipper), Caroline and I were painting. Obviously I couldn't take a picture of me painting, so when Rich was doing the ceiling bits that I was having trouble to reach, I took a couple, mainly for the benefit of a gorgeous little girl we know.....
If you look behind Rich, you can see the finished arch and it looks good!
It's important to seal the plaster, and to do this we used a 50%paint, 50% water mix of cheap emulsion (magnolia!) applied and worked in generously with a roller. The first coat was very patchy, as it is absorbed at different rates by different densities of plaster and so on. The second coat looked a lot better. This means that when we finally choose a colour and paint, the expensive paint will go on evenly, and neatly, and have good coverage, and the plaster is somewhat protected from knocks and grease.
If you look behind Rich, you can see the finished arch and it looks good!
It's important to seal the plaster, and to do this we used a 50%paint, 50% water mix of cheap emulsion (magnolia!) applied and worked in generously with a roller. The first coat was very patchy, as it is absorbed at different rates by different densities of plaster and so on. The second coat looked a lot better. This means that when we finally choose a colour and paint, the expensive paint will go on evenly, and neatly, and have good coverage, and the plaster is somewhat protected from knocks and grease.
Piping and so on....
..
When I returned from Wales on the Monday, I discovered that Rich and the lovely Ivan had done a very tidy job of the piping, the boiler was on the wall, and we were well on our way to hot water.
The one that goes up the wall is the gas pipe for the cooker hob. It's a bayonet fitting, so it is simple to move the cooker out for cleaning and so on. The others are the hot water feeds, all soldered joints, all neatly done!
And the most excellent boiler. I was reluctant to have a combi boiler, it's a Ravenheat one, and so far it's been excellent. The dials ect are clear to use, the response is amazingly quick, and it is much more energy efficient than the previous boiler. The heating is practically immediate to the radiators, and we have already noticed a couple of things that we really like, like being able to set the radiator temperature separately to the hot water temperature, meaning we can have lovely hot radiators, but set the hot water to a temp which won't scald anyone, or mean we have to put cold water into a bath to counter water which we just spent money and resources heating.
When I returned from Wales on the Monday, I discovered that Rich and the lovely Ivan had done a very tidy job of the piping, the boiler was on the wall, and we were well on our way to hot water.
The one that goes up the wall is the gas pipe for the cooker hob. It's a bayonet fitting, so it is simple to move the cooker out for cleaning and so on. The others are the hot water feeds, all soldered joints, all neatly done!
And the most excellent boiler. I was reluctant to have a combi boiler, it's a Ravenheat one, and so far it's been excellent. The dials ect are clear to use, the response is amazingly quick, and it is much more energy efficient than the previous boiler. The heating is practically immediate to the radiators, and we have already noticed a couple of things that we really like, like being able to set the radiator temperature separately to the hot water temperature, meaning we can have lovely hot radiators, but set the hot water to a temp which won't scald anyone, or mean we have to put cold water into a bath to counter water which we just spent money and resources heating.
Ok, so... Plastering?
..... where did we get to?
We had a ceiling, and the plasterer was coming. Good. This is last Saturday then.
Plastering is an art, and if it's something you can do, fantastic, more power to your elbow. If it's not, like for Rich and I, then something has to be done - i.e. get someone in. The walls in the old kitchen had blown in places (the old plaster had come away from the wall) so we stripped back as much as we needed to so that we got to solid plaster in some places, and plain back to the brick in others.
We also took the opportunity to put in an arch between the kitchen and the laundry space, as we're never going to have a door on there - we aren't door people - and then the two places are connected, but still separate, if you follow my meaning.
There aren't many pictures of this bit, because the plasterer was working at a real pace and I didn't want to get in his way, plus the Adorable Child and I went to Wales for friends childrens christening.
Both of these pictures you may have to make bigger to see the point of them. This one is the ceiling, and shows where the wiring for the light is. Rich has attatched a small piece of wire to the square connector block, then pushed everything except the lead wire up into the ceiling to be plastered over.
Later, when he came to fit the light, he just gently pulled this through, the connector block came through behind it, and the hole was neat, square and small.
We had a ceiling, and the plasterer was coming. Good. This is last Saturday then.
Plastering is an art, and if it's something you can do, fantastic, more power to your elbow. If it's not, like for Rich and I, then something has to be done - i.e. get someone in. The walls in the old kitchen had blown in places (the old plaster had come away from the wall) so we stripped back as much as we needed to so that we got to solid plaster in some places, and plain back to the brick in others.
We also took the opportunity to put in an arch between the kitchen and the laundry space, as we're never going to have a door on there - we aren't door people - and then the two places are connected, but still separate, if you follow my meaning.
There aren't many pictures of this bit, because the plasterer was working at a real pace and I didn't want to get in his way, plus the Adorable Child and I went to Wales for friends childrens christening.
Both of these pictures you may have to make bigger to see the point of them. This one is the ceiling, and shows where the wiring for the light is. Rich has attatched a small piece of wire to the square connector block, then pushed everything except the lead wire up into the ceiling to be plastered over.
Later, when he came to fit the light, he just gently pulled this through, the connector block came through behind it, and the hole was neat, square and small.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
BIG NEWS!
We have hot water!
I am waiting my turn in the shower!
I'll update this properly later, but we have hot water, and I can clean the house again, and I can keep the child clean and cook and so on.
The kitchen isn't finished - I'll post pictures of the plastering, the painting and so on, but WE HAVE HOT WATER!
(Not that anyone reads this anyway - if you do, drop me a comment?)
I am waiting my turn in the shower!
I'll update this properly later, but we have hot water, and I can clean the house again, and I can keep the child clean and cook and so on.
The kitchen isn't finished - I'll post pictures of the plastering, the painting and so on, but WE HAVE HOT WATER!
(Not that anyone reads this anyway - if you do, drop me a comment?)
Finally! An update! (Or how to put up a plasterboard ceiling!)
Not that anyone reads this anyway, but here is an update on the current work. All pictures are suitable for young children as there are *no* picture of naked backs. (Seriously! None!)
This was Friday. No ceiling. See the floorboards of my sons room!
The panel lifter. Having done a ceiling without one and now a ceiling with one, todays top tip would be always use one. Our was £21 from the fabulous Travis Perkins Hire place, and well worth the cash.
See how it lifts the plasterboard with ease! We're using Gyproc Fireline. It's expensive, but what price a child's safety?
Offer it up into place, check the alignment, and screw it in. Rich spent quite a lot of the day in this shape!
Rich is snapping a chalk line onto the board to leave a chalk line (no, really!) so that we know where the joists are and can screw straight into them without guessing.
This picture shows all the big boards up, staggered joints, as they should be, and just the gaps to fill.
Da-Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! One complete ceiling, ready for plastering.
This was Friday. No ceiling. See the floorboards of my sons room!
The panel lifter. Having done a ceiling without one and now a ceiling with one, todays top tip would be always use one. Our was £21 from the fabulous Travis Perkins Hire place, and well worth the cash.
See how it lifts the plasterboard with ease! We're using Gyproc Fireline. It's expensive, but what price a child's safety?
Offer it up into place, check the alignment, and screw it in. Rich spent quite a lot of the day in this shape!
Rich is snapping a chalk line onto the board to leave a chalk line (no, really!) so that we know where the joists are and can screw straight into them without guessing.
This picture shows all the big boards up, staggered joints, as they should be, and just the gaps to fill.
Da-Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! One complete ceiling, ready for plastering.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Pipework!
We are replacing most of the pipework in the house. Much of it is an utter bodge job from the previous people, or the ones previous to them.
This is Ivan replacing some pipework for us. He is, without doubt, one of the best friends I have ever had. And flipping good with a gas torch.
Top tip. When gas torching near to a floor board, use a piece of plasterboard tucked in above the pipe to avoid scorching (or worst case senario, setting fire to!) the boards.
That's about where we are tonight. Tired. And off to bed.
Last picture of the workforce!
This is Ivan replacing some pipework for us. He is, without doubt, one of the best friends I have ever had. And flipping good with a gas torch.
Top tip. When gas torching near to a floor board, use a piece of plasterboard tucked in above the pipe to avoid scorching (or worst case senario, setting fire to!) the boards.
That's about where we are tonight. Tired. And off to bed.
Last picture of the workforce!
Boiler OUT!
Today's big news is that the boiler and the pipework and the chimney, and in fact anything boiler related are out.
This means that all that corner needs cleaning, and I'll be doing that tomorrow morning.
So from this......
To this - all disconnected, boiler moved away from wall, flue down.
To this... the beginnings of taking the chimney down. There aren't a lot of pictures of this bit as Richw as very nervous about doing it as the whole chimney could have come down, depending on the age of the house and the condition. but it didn't so that was ok.
He refilled the old chimney space with bricks that he had just taken out, and it'll be rendered tomorrow, plastered on Saturday.
So that's the chimney.
Next post - the pipework!
This means that all that corner needs cleaning, and I'll be doing that tomorrow morning.
So from this......
To this - all disconnected, boiler moved away from wall, flue down.
To this... the beginnings of taking the chimney down. There aren't a lot of pictures of this bit as Richw as very nervous about doing it as the whole chimney could have come down, depending on the age of the house and the condition. but it didn't so that was ok.
He refilled the old chimney space with bricks that he had just taken out, and it'll be rendered tomorrow, plastered on Saturday.
So that's the chimney.
Next post - the pipework!
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Wet Wednesday the second!
By now, Ivan (dark blue jeans) had arrived to join Charlie (in the doorway) and Rich (kneepads) in contemplation of the hole.
Which they then made deeper.
And then I put Sam to bed, and they made it even deeper.
And then they filled it in with the good concrete that had been on top of some of the rotten concrete.
And mixed a dryish mix of concrete to go over the top.
Rich looks rather delicious in this one I feel......
and that's where we are now.
More updates tomorrow!
Which they then made deeper.
And then I put Sam to bed, and they made it even deeper.
And then they filled it in with the good concrete that had been on top of some of the rotten concrete.
And mixed a dryish mix of concrete to go over the top.
Rich looks rather delicious in this one I feel......
and that's where we are now.
More updates tomorrow!
Wet Wednesday
Why Wet Wednesday?
Well, the kitchen was all going well. We had found some remarkable tiles UNDER the wooden window sill. Yep, they hadn't even taken the tiles up to replace the windowsill, they just screwed it in on top.
Mmmmm. Yummy tiles! NOT!
This picture shows the beginning of the hole that we started when we found lots of damp plaster. Which led to finding lots of damp and rotten concrete in the floor. It had been laid on dirt, over a bad membrane.
Good concrete does not do this.
3 blows with a hammer.
Not good.
At this point we were looking at having to take up most of the kitchen floor. Not in the time plan, not in the budget.
Disaster.
Well, the kitchen was all going well. We had found some remarkable tiles UNDER the wooden window sill. Yep, they hadn't even taken the tiles up to replace the windowsill, they just screwed it in on top.
Mmmmm. Yummy tiles! NOT!
This picture shows the beginning of the hole that we started when we found lots of damp plaster. Which led to finding lots of damp and rotten concrete in the floor. It had been laid on dirt, over a bad membrane.
Good concrete does not do this.
3 blows with a hammer.
Not good.At this point we were looking at having to take up most of the kitchen floor. Not in the time plan, not in the budget.
Disaster.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
kitchen so far......
This is the kitchen I have had for over a year now. The wooden units were from someone stripping out their kitchen and had been in a garage for over a year. The worktops were the ones that were here when we got here. The plaster had fallen off of the walls in lots of places where the water had got into it from the leak that the previous people had had, and not sorted out properly.
These are the tiles that were around the walls.
So far we have...................
Friday night
Stripped the tiles from the walls. All of them.
Saturday day
Stripped the tiles from the floor. Some with a floor chisel and 4 lb hammer. Some with the "electric drill with rotary action" as it's technical details describe the tool.
And yesterday he took the ceiling down, and tonight he, Ivan and Charlie are discussing and measuring and doing stuff with pipes.
It's all good! It's going to be fantastic eventually.
I'm even getting underfloor heating. As we have the floor up already.....
These are the tiles that were around the walls.So far we have...................
Friday night
Stripped the tiles from the walls. All of them.
Saturday day
Stripped the tiles from the floor. Some with a floor chisel and 4 lb hammer. Some with the "electric drill with rotary action" as it's technical details describe the tool.
And yesterday he took the ceiling down, and tonight he, Ivan and Charlie are discussing and measuring and doing stuff with pipes.It's all good! It's going to be fantastic eventually.
I'm even getting underfloor heating. As we have the floor up already.....
Friday, August 10, 2007
lyrics game - billy Joel
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Well, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...
Thursday, August 9, 2007
CRISPIE-LANCHE!
So in a moment of genius, I decided to put the cereal on the stairs. I've run out of room everywhere else. What I didn't know was that Rice Crispies are afraid of heights, and promptly threw themselves to ground cover.
I was stunned/amazed/laughing/about to weep when the Adorable Child came over and said "Oh dear. well, don't worry, messes happen sometimes don't they mummy!" and then ran off shouting "I've got a plan!" over his shoulder.
This was the plan.
Hands and some considerable consumption first.
Then his broom to push the crispies into the box.
And then he got very technological, and finished off most of the rest!
What did this tell me?
1) He knows that it's ok to make a mess sometimes, and sometimes it just happens.
2)He knows that no-one shouts when messes are made.
3)He knows that a plan to help clear up is a good idea.
4)He knows that different tools are good for different parts of the same job.
5)He knows you can eat the ones on the top.....
6)He knows that helping to tidy is the kind thing to do.
I'm pretty happy with that to be honest. He was so sweet, kind and helpful.
I love him.
Lyrics game
I learned how to write it, when I first started school
Some bully didn't like it, said it didn't sound too cool
So I had to hit him, and all I said when the blood came
It's my last name
Dirk Bentley
In other news, life is good. I met a really nice family yesterday, and they had come over to pick up some freecycle stuff, and are coming over again just for coffee and to play, which will be nice. Cat is on the way up after costing a HUGE amount of cash, and so we're a little skint, but it's ok. The swimming is already paid for, I've got money for what we need, if not a little more, and hopefully the extra will be in on Friday or Monday, I'll phone them about it.
I hope everyone is having a lovely day! Rich is about to find out that I made stoneground bread nad rolls yesterday, and that that is what is in his lunchbox because I didn't have time to make 2 lots. But I'll probably have to give up on the bread for a couple of weeks anyway. We'll see how the kitchen goes. I'm in the middle of moving it all into the dining room anyway!
Some bully didn't like it, said it didn't sound too cool
So I had to hit him, and all I said when the blood came
It's my last name
Dirk Bentley
In other news, life is good. I met a really nice family yesterday, and they had come over to pick up some freecycle stuff, and are coming over again just for coffee and to play, which will be nice. Cat is on the way up after costing a HUGE amount of cash, and so we're a little skint, but it's ok. The swimming is already paid for, I've got money for what we need, if not a little more, and hopefully the extra will be in on Friday or Monday, I'll phone them about it.
I hope everyone is having a lovely day! Rich is about to find out that I made stoneground bread nad rolls yesterday, and that that is what is in his lunchbox because I didn't have time to make 2 lots. But I'll probably have to give up on the bread for a couple of weeks anyway. We'll see how the kitchen goes. I'm in the middle of moving it all into the dining room anyway!
Monday, June 11, 2007
Red as they come!
We went on church picnic and yesterday, and some friends brought strawberries from their garden. I made a smoothie for breakfast and was amazed by the colour!
Friday, June 8, 2007
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