Thanks to the rain we managed to make it to the reception of my friends wedding. Which was in Hatfield!
I think its the only time I been glade to see snow melt! It was great 🙂
Charlotte wore a buetiful 'fish tail' dress and becuase it is Febuary she had a lovely little white fur wrap! She looked very Fairy Princess 🙂
We made it before the first dance too, which was amazing as we had got lost for about an hour once we came off of the motor way! Well it was probably less time than that but I was bursting for a wee and we had to change in the back of the van etc....
Even though it was a very late night for Jeany-bo she really loved it! Though I did have to feed her most of the fruit for the chocolate fountain!
Sorry it was too pretty not to photograph!
Ecellent - pure genius!
It was a bit too hot inside though, we found so we went exploring outside and found there was Ducks and Fire!
And of course I could not help myself - there were geeks presant so I did what I always do and make them pose!
It was really lovely with fireworks going off to Jeruselum and cheesy music to suit any conorser 🙂
We had a great time- I was sad when we left at Midnight as it would have been fun to stay longer but we had a 3 to 4 hr drive to get home. And Jean was inevitably getting a bit grizzly. Of course me being me I forgot the wedding presants so still have to sort that out at some point!
I am an idiot - I washed the cats flea collors!
doh doh doh.
And Minni's been having her treatments becuase she doesn't have a collar!
'Alaric when did the cats last have their flea treatment?'
'Erm, can't remember why?'
'Becuase I am covered in flea bits! Havent found any on Jean. Didnt you mark it in the calender?'
'Oh dear, no why should I have?'
'Yes its supposed to be done every three months isnt it?'
'Oh no we only ever did it when they got fleas...' I will not type what I said yet as it would be lots of stars! Approximatly it was along the lines of...
'Nonononon... we have a baby we dont let the cats get fleas in the first place! Same with the worming tablets.'
....
'You haven't given them their worming treatment either have you?'
'But they dont have worms...'
Ok so I had three flea bits but still - I'm afriad poor Al got moaned at quiet alot as he'd said he would do the cats meds as he's brought cats up before.
Good job I'm already in the middle of spring cleaning!
Since I've been getting our home network a bit better organised lately, the home server is now actually accessible from both the wired and wireless networks (and could be accessible from the outside, too, once I've sorted out suitable security measures), so it's high time I started making use of it.
The first thing I've done has been to set up a home Wiki. There's various bits of information that Sarah and I share, but that one or the other of us is 'in charge of' depending on whose computer it lives, so rather than putting a bunch of text files on the shared file server area, it seems logical to do it with a Wiki.
I'd been wanting to research the current state of the art in Wiki software anywhere; the only other Wiki I run, the ARMuC Wiki, runs on UseMod, which I've never grown to love properly.
Anyway, my researches led me to PmWiki, and I'm quite sold on it - it's written in PHP so doesn't require CGIs, and it has a software design philosophy that I agree with; a simple core with modular extensibility.
So we now have a Sutton's Mill Intranet for our domestic odds and ends. And with a little bit of simple plugin writing, the home page lists the status of important household sensors - currently just the incoming mains voltage and frequency (we get a lot of mains power problems out here!) and the battery backup system status, but hopefully soon to include external temperatures too.
We're using the Wiki to store our monthly budget, our goals for each month (chosen at the New Year), our template shopping list of things we need to check we have sufficient stocks of, and our list of favourite recipies (since we have a habit of forgetting them, then one day going "Blimey! I've not cooked that lovely Thai turmeric rice in months!"), and we'll shove more stuff in as we come up with it - basically, from now on, whenever one of us has to go and look something up for the other, we'll Wiki it for posterity.
Yesturday we took Jean out in the snow - now there was snow last year but she was not old enough to appriciate it!
The first rule she learnt was that its better to have gloves on rather than off - she normally just pulls them straight off and struggles if you try to put them back on but outside she cried if one accidently fell off and would point at it so one of us would pick it up and put it back on her!
Hydrogen who followed us and explored tentitively until she found what great fun pouncing snow was! She got snow on her nose though and for about an hour after we came back in the house she sat on a chair infront of the fire sneezing - in a comical cartoon kind of way!
Al tried to show Jean how to make snow balls but she was a bit uncertian! This didn't stop me and Al having a snowball fight though!
Al then build a snow man out the front of the double garage! Jean 'helped'.
We then went up onto the lawn so Jean could play but she seemed a bit uncertian about what exactly was going on!
So we built a snow cat! Ok well it was supposed to be another snowman but I made a misshapen head that looked like a cat so we decided to go with that instead - Hydrogen seemed to be drawn to it so I think it must have been a pretty good snowcat!
Animals, Jean, Sarah, The Family | sarah | 
Tue 20th Feb 2007 1:53 pm | 
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