by Penbleth on Thursday 31 March, 2011
Thursday night. Sitting like a grown-up, 12 in bed, mostly settled. Time for a sit down and an old movie. A blast of cheesy romance from Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan getting to know each other through AOL chatrooms back in the dial-up days of 1998. My goodness, what’s more amazing? That my MacBook is [...]
by Penbleth on Wednesday 30 March, 2011
A little while ago I made a big mistake, I wrote that 12 seemed much more settled and better behaved. Of course this was the kiss of death. Of course. Since then 12 has been a minx. If there is something she can do to make a task take longer, to cause aggravation 12 has [...]
by Penbleth on Tuesday 29 March, 2011
Here’s something worth knowing about me – I’m a complete pushover. Want to get me to do something? Not care what I think about you after it? Just go right ahead and employ the steamroller, I’ll cave. How do I do this? How do I say right out, “I don’t want to do this” and [...]
by Penbleth on Monday 28 March, 2011
Yesterday’s day out at the beach was wonderfully relaxing. I needed it. Today has been rather frantic. A real, “I need a cup of something hot right now before I do anything else.” Here’s the coffee to prove it. 16 made me [...]
by Penbleth on Sunday 27 March, 2011
Once again 12 is at respite tonight. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned to Hub I really wanted to get to the coast, whether a seaside town or not was immaterial. Hub decided we would go on 12′s next respite day, as long as the weather was good. It was a little chilly but [...]