Apparently what i've been doing all day
(according to Alan, and source found here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving)
is YAK SHAVING!

Yak Shaving is what you are doing when you're doing some stupid, fiddly likee task that bears no obvious relationship to what you' ( Read more... )

Eldest walked into kitchen: "What happened in here? There's a really odd smell ( Read more... )

....which was to stay in my comfy jimjams (with pockets less) all day!
I SUCCEEDED!

I did bedmin (aka adminstration from my bed). Wrote up my journal. Finished planning tram party. Created the "Best of 2023" family video with P (view it here). Bought 3 books from Amazon. Ordered cake supplies. Sorted photos. Coordinated calendars wtih Alan and ( Read more... )

Monday, and I seem to have nothing to write, so here's my blogging Backlog: My Advent Life in Lists

I've always had a theory that when I'm stressed / worried / under the weather mentally, I re-read my favourite books and/or read authors who I know I love, even if I don't know the book ( Read more... )

This has been a week of finalizing the funeral and a thousand final pernickty questions and panic from all sides. Working from home with the boys on school holiday. Mountains of laundry ( Read more... )

Markus's inflatable dinosaur costume finally arrived. He's a very large dinosaur. Hilarity ensues....

He wanted it for a school party a few weeks ago, but nonetheless had fun roaming our small flat.


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Adding some user pics! Boys and family from 2022, plus the Simpson drawings I got done for Alan's Birhday :-)
I can highly recommend turned yellow.com

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As I've been catching up on blogs, I've realized that there's a terrible lack of some user pics, so here are the new ones

Family 11, 12, 13 / M&D / Spring 1 & 2 / Summer 1 & 2

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Taught my kids the concept of hump day today :-)

Had a busy morning, then went out for a sushi lunch with a colleague here, lovely little restaurant and you can see the sushi fabrik in the background! oh, and got some CS sprüngli chocolates from another work friend ( Read more... )