Balloon Buddy Rather than redo a Year of Days. I though we could do a year of Sundays here on the blogs. What do you think Liz? N.B This is all that’s left of Emma’s birthday balloon! Continue reading

I have to admire the aussies laid back attitude. Despite the devastating effects of the floods in Brisbane, I heard one chap interviewed who, despite his house being completely flooded, said “There’s not much I can do about it at the moment but I’ve got plenty of beer!” I think it would be whole different Continue reading

I’m a bit of a closet Jay Z fan and I love “99 problems” its a fantastic track. Some bloke called Hugo has now done a Country & Western version and its really good. Very dodgy video, but great track. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDh4P1cE2E[/tube] Continue reading

Tesco have launched an app which turns your phone into a barcode reader so you can add items to your online shopping order. Geeky but so clever!! Continue reading

This is my first attempt at taking a shot of the night sky. It was a bit tricky as my neighbours had left their outside lights on but it hasn’t come out too bad. I haven’t got a clue what I’m looking at, does anyone know? Click on the image to get the full size. Continue reading

Having a geek session testing out blogging from my iPhone! Continue reading

Emma had her first day at nursery today. She totally enjoyed it. The only time she was a bit grumpy was when it was time to come home! Off to Nursery with her tinkerbell lunchbox Continue reading

Today we went across to the Five Bells Pub in Colne Engaine for the annual Barrel Hunt. There are two routes, 1 1/2 miles for the under 12’s and a 3 1/2 mile route for everyone else. You can do the route any way you want and there was three barrels to find. Unfortunately we Continue reading

Had a really nice day today. The Corkys and the all the oldies came over for the day. As usual K did an amazing dinner, the girls had a lovely time. A really nice Christmas day. Cheers Guys!! Continue reading

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs&feature=player_embedded[/tube] The Word Lens app instantaneously translates and replaces the text of whatever you are pointing your iphone camera at. Amazing! Continue reading

The girls all went to meet Santa at the Zoo on Saturday. Just as they arrived it started to snow, so made it really special.The grotto there is amazing, well worth a visit. Continue reading

Had a night out in town last night with a few lads from work, K had come to collie to take Emma to Santa’s grotto at the zoo, we had planned to stay at Chris & Dereks for the night and all come back Sunday. Lucky that we did, because we had a lot of Continue reading

Denzel Washington and Chris Pine play an engineer and a conductor who attempt to stop a runaway freight train which is carrying some hazardous toxic stuff. Directed in typical Tony Scott style this is meant to be edge of the seat stuff but – it isn’t. It plods along there’s a slightly tense couple of Continue reading

We had a fantastic weekend in London. We headed in yesterday afternoon and went to “Winter Wonderland” in Hyde Park. I had heard it was big, but I was really impressed how big it actually was. There was loads of rides and a fantastic market but it was so busy. Once you got out of Continue reading

I do love a bit of strictly and Kara Tointon got my vote last night. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3DVX0Huah8[/tube] I also really enjoyed incredibly hot Natalie Lowe who is dancing with some bloke Scott Maslen. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VrfHsmD8Ak[/tube] Continue reading

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw[/tube] Amazin! Continue reading

Jane Spencer: Can I interest you in a night cap? Frank Drebin: No, thank you, I don’t wear them. More on the The Leslie Nielsen random quote generator Continue reading

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Social worker Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) is assigned to investigate suspected abuse of 10 year old Lillith. On receiving a phone call, Emily rushes to Lilliths house to discover her parents are attempting to murder her. Rather than Lillith going into care Emily decides to care for Lillith but is Lillith all she seems to Continue reading

The Big Picture has an amazing collection of 47 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. Continue reading

Us Thomas’es have been spoilt rotten this weekend. Yesterday we went to my folks for a lovely lunch. Thanks folks – yummy crumble! And today we’ve been to Lindsay’s for lunch. She did an amazing suet pudding for main (Corky, Al you would have loved it!) and for dessert she had made “Queen of Pudding”. Continue reading

Really like the new track by Adele. Her new album “21” is out in early January. I can’t believe its been three years since “19” came out. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazyDlfaptM&feature=player_embedded[/tube] Continue reading

Well, she is tomorrow but we had her party on Sunday so everyone could come. Everyone had a lovely day. Unfortunately Emma came down with a cold and a temperature on Sunday morning. She had back to bed after opening her presents and was OK for the first hour of the party but then it Continue reading

Had a really nice, chilled out week in the lakes with the Corkys. The girls had a lovely time and did really well on the walks. A right pair of hardcore ramblers! The weather was good, a couple of really nice days, a few damp days and only one really wet day. Great fun with Continue reading

Quite a storm blew in Sunday night and we had lots of wind & rain but snow has fell above 400m. Yesterday Emma stayed with the corkys and k & I went shopping and bought Emmas first pair of walking boots. She was really chuffed and put them to good use when we went for Continue reading

We’ve come up to the lakes with the corkys for a week. Got here last night and we couldn’t get in the house. Finally got in after an hour and a half faffing. Weather is looking good for today, better make the most of it as it’s looking pretty rough tommorrow. Continue reading

This is Emma & I’s third attempt at making a cake. The first two attempts came out dead flat and really dense, sort of biscuit like but after a bit of advice from a bloke at work – we’ve cracked it! Check out the fluffiness! Continue reading

Afternoon Tea & cakes at Liane’s – Lurvely! Continue reading