Author Archives: Daddybean

How to fill up your Gogglemail account.

Posted on January 15, 2007 | Leave a comment

So, you thought 2+ whatever GB was plenty eh? Well apparently 220,000 +spam is enough to fill it up 80 – as found out when emails were bouncing from it.

I’ve got an account that I use for redirecting email sent to our main email domain that doesn’t have specified account (yes I could just not collect it, but I find it useful to do so). It then gets collected via that onto or email system at home. G’mails spam filter is pretty effective without grabbing loads of real emails as well. The spam does get deleted after 30 days – so obviously it comes in quicker than it was getting deleted

Out of the habit.

Posted on January 12, 2007 | 5 comments

Seem to ahev lost the muse when it comes to blogging, I’ve managed to not really blog all week Including fun science-y things we did last week. Hmm, anyway this is for now, cos going to bed soon. Also behind with Flickr as well…
My brother and his youngest son O are over on their way back over to France from Ireland (mother and son live in France, Dad in Ireland, makes life complicated…)? They came round yesterday, lots of playing, mostly happily :-)? BB splits her tiem between chasing the bigger ones about and? hanging around with the grownups.

Today me and the girls went over to my Mum and Dads were they are staying, mostly happy playing again. A bit of? split when O wanted to play with his video game football game thing(some cheapo thing, not a flash thing like a DS …) so she played with the Dolly. Eventually compromised, she was the Mummy, and he was the Daddy who was a computer programmer And an argument over the crackers (used up soem old xmas ones) over who had how many and which cheapo-plastic-toys-we-will-lose-or-forget-about-by-tomorrow-anyway

Did have a few interesting conversations in the car though. Had one about the reality of imaginary people like Santa Claus/tooth faeries/’this character made up by one of her granddads, who seems to be some sort of satellite/alien thing. Not fairies though – ‘I know they are real , I’ve seen them‘. Got a bit metaphysical? when we talked about the idea of liking things things to be? real in our imaginations even if we don’t believe them to be true in reality. We watched ‘The Snowman’ a few times this Xmas. BB likes it. So I mentioned that I liked to imagine that somewhere, Snowmen were really flying off in the midnight air, even though I didn’t really believe it. – just the same as I want to believe that there really is? town and inhabitants like those in Northern Exposure. I think she decided that she sort of didn’t believe, but wanted to so was going to anyway.

We also had one on the way back, after listening to a travel report on the radio about all the various roads closed in relation to the strong winds ‘ Ohh, there is lots of places closed, must be very windy‘. So we got talking about strong winds and hurricanes and tornadoes, she was taking with the idea of Tornadoes picking things up. So she mused on people being picked up, ‘They’d probably be dropped on a cloud, so then they would fall back down, so they would probably die I think, then the tornado might pick them up and then drop them again, up down , up down. Might be be a bit of mess at the end‘. Errr.. yes, quite

On that note, off to bed

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Posted in Butterbean, Daft Stuff, Stringbean

Party time.

Posted on January 12, 2007 | 2 comments

Stringbean has had this Jump Ahead Starting Maths CD-ROM for ages – 3 years? dunno, but she was doing it in our old house anyway. She’s done it on and off in spurts, probably redone it at least a couple of times, so? a little bit of a fan fare when she finally completed the last bit tonight tonight, had got the 100 candles and had the party

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Posted in IT, numeracy, Stringbean, Stringbean's HE

education city

Posted on January 11, 2007 | 5 comments

we have a tell a friend code if anyone else wants to buy it which gives both the person who already has it, and the person buying it a free extra 3 months.

Your unique Tell a Friend code is C8A26B9D.feel free to use it!

education city = fab!! ?20 for 12 months, and 3 more free – go on!

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Posted in General, online resources

She’s so tiny……

Posted on January 11, 2007 | 2 comments

Saw a piccie of my cousins new baby today at my Mum and Dad’s (didn’t email me one -? hmph!! ). But OMG she is so tiny !!!!! The head seems to be only about the same diameter as the length her Dads index finger.
Oh well they will get plenty of wear out of the first baby clothes.

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Posted in General

A reading milestone :-)

Posted on January 9, 2007 | 6 comments

This was taken at 9.30 last night, she was still at it at 10.30 And yes she was actually reading it, not just looking at the piccies

She is so pleased with herself

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Posted in Books, literacy, photos, Stringbean, Stringbean's HE

All down.

Posted on January 8, 2007 | 3 comments

Well, almost, there is still? some tinsel lurking on the stair banister….. But having done by now is pretty promptly for us
Took down the trees over the weekend – I hate it, all the faffing about with having to put breakable things in boxes.

Well, suppose we really have to get back to normal now.

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Posted in Daft Stuff, photos, Stringbean

Getting back to normal.

Posted on January 3, 2007 | Leave a comment

With Helen being off all the week before xmas, and only having two days at work last week and then the Bank Holiday it seems like we’ve al been at home for a long time we’ve had together, which has been good. So yesterday we started getting back to normal, in a fairly gentle way. Starting off with SB having a much needed bit of sleep catch up and not getting up until past 10.30 am. -Not sure exactly as she’d come down stairs before 11 and the TV had been left on, so she’d sidled into there and was watching Toms Midnight Garden on the TV

It did mean that I had a nice time playing with BB, with the animals, lego, books, playdoh and stuff. as well as exciting things like sorting out washing. Got SB moving when i mentioned the Library and she realised it was ‘Bic-bic day’ – they have a fund raising stall on the first Tues of the month – with drinks, biscuits etc. So we went round to the library, had biccies, coffee, chatted about xmas, the girls did their usual we are cute and lovely thing, and even got some books just before it closed

Home to lunch with Littletoe show, and then enforce nap tiem for BB – she just isn’t making it through. So I basically give her an enforced cuddle on the bed until she gives up making? big fuss about it and falls asleep. Seemed to work ok though. She was asleep by 1.30, we got her up before 3 and she went to sleep ok at about 8.30, which was rather better.

SB sat and spent ages looking at her library books, then me and SB did a fair bit of reading of them. She did a bit My Pals are Here, felt ages since we had done any so did it in gentle-ish sort of way. There was bit of something happening when BB got up, but I forget what exactly. Made a pasta bake for tea and then we sat down with tea/hot choc and toasted teacakes (BB – ‘I need choc-choc cup’) to watch the rest of Toms Midnight Garden. Then? a bit of tidying up before dinner. One of the targets for this year is to be tidier in general through the day, worked ok yesterday, kitchen ended the day pretty tidy, playroom was tidy (the main chaos areas).

Need to have a bit of think about where we are going with/approaching HE though. SB mentioned Education City again, so time to sign up to that I think.
Visitors due any minute now (M and family, a girl from a local HE group, almost the same age as Sb, and they hit it off from the first meeting) so time to be organized – at least the lunch soup is cooking

ready to fall

Posted on January 1, 2007 | 2 comments

ready to fall

Originally uploaded by Scrumbledelicious.

I remember crying as she broke that tooth and begging the dentist to glue the little bit on.
Now its about to go, and I actually feel really emotional about it.

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Posted in General

Happy New Year

Posted on January 1, 2007 | 5 comments

Merry, Max and the girls came over to share New Years Eve with us, which was lovely.

I gave the children a not quite cooked dinner, the girls have run around doing all that girly play stuff, parents have chatted, drunk (plenty of Baileys…). Butterbean saw in the New Year (she came to bed with the grownups at 2.45 am…) We initiated their girls into party poppers, Merry initiated BB into the delights of the DS. Joise entertained her parents in the middle of the night. We had panckaes for brunch.

We all had great time. Heres to spending time with good friends