Monthly Archives: December 2020

I’ve had in my head for a couple of days, or maybe weeks, that I wanted to try my hand at some multi-stranded necklaces. I’m super-chuffed that my first effort actually came out pretty much spot on. I’d initially wanted to do a full rainbow… but that would be too much. A friend suggested doing a rainbow across the three,… Read more »

I made good on my plans to get the table cleared, so Z get the tree built and ready for the girls. Smalls was down at the village hall playing basketball with her bestie, so Smaller had to wait for a bit. But they got stuck in and got it done, so yanno, sorted. Now I guess I have to… Read more »

Before the whole hospital factor came into play, Z and I had planned to order from the chippy tonight, and to invite his parents to place an order with. We were still planning to order, so I suggested that we see if Mum wanted company for dinner. She did! So we’ve come around to eat, and chat, and generally hang… Read more »

We had a call this morning from Mum, telling us that Z’s dad was back in hospital… colour none of us surprised. Still, don’t know whether it was shell-shock or what, but Mum seemed to be handling it fairly well. As she said to us, and to D — someone else taking the weight of this off of her is… Read more »

I was pushing along getting my old laptop set up for Smaller to use earlier. I’d just made a her profile, and started doing updates. ‘Blip!’ cried the laptop as it shut off randomly. Okay, let it sit for a few minutes and whapped the power button. Nothing. Brick? Fuuu… Thankfully, it decided it could be bothered to turn on… Read more »

When I got my new laptop, it was my full intent to take the old one and clean it up to hand down to Smaller. She has a laptop, and it’s newer and has an SSD drive, but we think my old one will run games faster and better for her. She’ll probably be getting a better specc’d up one… Read more »