WHEN is this rain ever going to STOP?! It really is getting very silly now, our garden is looking more and more swampish by the day and Li’l Bhaji is getting cabin fever. Still, at least we haven’t been affected by any of the flooding, although surrounding areas have been badly hit. It’s very odd [...]

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Our dining room table is on its last legs (pardon the pun). It’s wobbly, the surface varnish has been scraped away over the years, the seats on the chairs have split (this is the second recovering). We’ve looked into repairing it and frankly the cost greatly outweighs any benefit, although to be fair it’s done [...]

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Not quite sure how we lived without this before, but Wellington Grey has designed an indispensable Period Table of the Internet.

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I have not had a very good couple of weeks. You might have inferred that from my silence (or alternatively, you could just be thinking I was being lazy – well, that’s sort of true too). Since I’ve had the Mirena out I’ve had a huge range of side-effects as my hormones seem to have [...]

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Did you do physics at school? Have an O-level or GCSE in it? Take a look at these example questions and see if you could answer one of today’s papers. Wellington Grey, a high school physics teacher in the UK, is starting a campaign to beg for his subject back. If, like me, you ever [...]

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You really know it’s summer when the door-to-door salesmen come out of hibernation. Living on a new estate, we get more than our fair share and I’ve had three of them call on me within the space of half an hour – all of them while I was trying to prepare dinner. I’m hormonal (just [...]

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Li’l Bhaji is in major boundary-pushing mode today, being constantly and deliberately naughty with a grin and cheerfulness that is actually harder to bear than if he’d been sullen and wilful. I have just rather tearfully confessed to an online friend that actually, I don’t like my three year old very much this morning and [...]

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We’re not having much fun potty training Li’l Bhaji at the moment. Oh, the wee side of things he got VERY quickly (the advantages of leaving until after the age of 3, I suspect) which was lucky as about 3 days after the start of training we went on a three hour car journey to [...]

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I spent most of yesterday evening enthralled by Facebook, the social networking site. Unlike Myspace, it seems to be based more around people you already know, rather than collecting complete strangers along the way, which suits me. I find it hard enough these days keeping up with the friends I already have. It’s actually insanely [...]

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Alley Katt‘s brother is currently doing a charity bike ride to raise money for the 2nd Cheriton Cubs and Beavers and Kent Marine Cadet Force in Folkestone. The route is taking him from Folkestone to Winchester and then returning which should take him just over a week to complete. To mark the event, Alley Katt [...]

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