So, here we are: not even the middle of November and already the mince pies are reduced to clear.
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Due to the interaction of time, money and children, I have ended up slipping into the category of employment where my tax affairs become slightly more complex. Not terribly so, but enough that I got a letter from HM Revenue & Customs asking me to check the child benefit payments that myself and cori_gated receive for mini-guybles.

Now, I'd be vaguely aware ( Read more... )

So, mini-guybles was talking to me about things he had he had seen on his iPad (which is useful to keep him away from us at stupid o’clock on a Saturday morning). He amuses himself with YouTube videos of - as far as I understand it - other people playing Jurassic Park, plus random bits of Lego Ninjago.

However, one sentence brought me hastily into ( Read more... )

Another day, another email...

Hello!

I'm a programmer who cracked your email account and device about half year ago. You entered a password on one of the insecure site you visited, and I catched it.How terribly cute. Just a shame that the password that the "programmer" used is the one I use for LiveJournal...and nothing else ( Read more... )

One of the perils of LinkedIn is, as soon as you expose anything on there that even vaguely refers to a professional career, you'll get a steady flow of recruitment agents trying to pitch you their latest vaguely matched opportunities (or, at very least, try to get all Pokémon on you to grow their network). Usually, I ignore the latter and politely ( Read more... )

Being a parent has its rewards and drawbacks ( Read more... )

Having spent the last 90 minutes shovelling compacted snow, it was time to delve into the fridge and pull out this:


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For a brief, glorious period at the start of the year, the Seville oranges are available in stores. So, I grab a couple of bags and get to work making marmalade.

The last two years have seen just plain orange, sometimes spiked with a little alcohol to give it an accent.

This year, however, saw me infuse the first batch with dried chillies and some ( Read more... )

Many, many years ago, I was transitioning between The Cub Scout pack and the Scout Troop.
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Sometimes, I troll through my old LJ entries.

Sometimes, they make me stop and think.

This time, the thought is: did it really take seven years to make this post become reality.

https://guybles.livejournal.com/203540.html

Well done Australia. You’ve made us all a little happier.