Bad Parenting Tips

Posted on November 27, 2006 by blogmywiki

No.2 in an occasional series

  • If you are bothered by your small children insisting on climbing into your bed in the middle of the night, deter them with water pistols. I mean, it works with cats…

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A blogger blogs, always

Posted on November 23, 2006 by blogmywiki

Well, actually no.

It strikes me that many bloggers feel they must Blog Come What May, even if that means that most of their posts run to this format: person A has done something cool; person B has noticed this and written about it; I noticed person B’s blog and now I’m writing about it too.

I’m sure I’m guilty of this too, occasionally; but as ditdotdat said to me today when we were talking about this, you’ve got to add something new.

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Ha!

Posted on November 22, 2006 by blogmywiki

Originally uploaded by oliorchard.
The comments on this photo on Flickr had me sniggering into my Waitrose Côtes du Rhone…

(I found this when surfing for photos taken with a Fuji A607 – thanks to Euan I discovered you can surf Flickr by camera model).

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Blintsday

Posted on November 17, 2006 by blogmywiki

Today is the 17th of November.Henry is 7

It’s my eldest son’s birthday. But also his class mate Molly’s birthday, and the birthday of Hugh, who he plays rugby with. They were all born on the same day, but Hugh is as tall as Henry is small.

My colleagues Clive and Yyvonne are getting married today.

It’s also the birthday of Henry at work, and of Peter Cook; the number 17 weaves throughout his play Consequences, and I’m sure it’s because he was born on the 17th.

I think the Peter Cook Appreciation Society have a piss-up on every 17th November, but I could never go – it’s always Henry’s birthday!

Perhaps on every Nov 17th I should read the script aloud in the street…

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Shallow age

Posted on November 14, 2006 by blogmywiki

I’m pretty sure that when I watched the TV adaptation of the Iain Banks novel The Crow Road when it first aired in 1996, I fancied the intelligent, feisty Ashley Watt (played by Valerie Edmond).

Watching it again tonight on BBC-4, I’m pretty sure that I fancy ‘the divine Verity’, played by Simone Bendix, who – at least in the first two episodes – is only there because she looks gorgeous.

But, anyway, it was wonderful to watch it again. A really beautiful adaptation, perfectly cast, and I love Gavin Millar’s direction. Perfect television.

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