We blew a fuse tonight and had a nice fast, seamless bedtime by torchlight and the kids went out like the lights before a nice engineer came and gave us a fuse he was not allowed to carry and talked Mr Wol through changing it. Bless the Irish sense of regulations ( Read more... )

Due to a shiny new policy at the creche, there are no longer such things as indivdual birthday parties. Instead the 3rd Tuesday in every month is designated birthday day for anyone with a birthday within spitting distance of the date. This means DD gets to be a part of the first one of these new and improved and less sugared up shindigs. So far the ( Read more... )