Elinor and George had a busy weekend, which finished off with a great swimathon. George did his 50m in about 3 minutes and Elinor swam on past her 400m finally getting her 1000m badge, and she still says she could have swum further. Wow!

Elinor with her 400/600/800 and 1000 metre certificates - phew! 

George with his 50 metre certificate 

view from the knock - Crieff Hydro 

Just back from half term hols, kids are still very hyper after 4 days of non stop fun. They were the life and soul of the ceilidh dancing...pics still on camera...must download. The house is freezing thanks to my dad having an economy drive with our heating bill and switching it all off. I think he should try staying here overnight to see just how cold it gets. Ebay has managed to sell a few things for me while I was away so the next stop is parcel wrapping downstairs (even colder).

Half term chaos and it is only Sunday, house has been invaded by sundry small children (not mine), husband is 'building' which is a euphamism for making another huge mess in the garden, which is then trodden round as mud all over the house by said children.

Today's game is playing police officers, I have written two notices advising the world at large, or those people who can read signs in a first floor window, that two 5 year olds are now active police officers.

Elinor is appalled at the noise, but not the mess. Wonder how long it will take for that to sink in. I've spent 3 hours tidying, a futile effort as the living room is now resembling a police station where the staff have gone crazy with the window paints!!!!!

Kids are off to do their swimming badges and then we might just go to the cinema (Chicken Little in Durham) is it funny..who knows, maybe I'll just quickly read the reviews as I did notice that it is an 80 minute film and I might not be able to sit still for that long when there are so many other things to organise.

This office stuff is going to cause a massive reorganisation within the house as we'll actually get some space back and won't have half as much office equipment indoors. It is touch and go at the moment whether we live in a house or an office.

The best stuff is certainly office equipt as everything else is getting a bit shabby.

Elinor and George went to a party this evening, both looking very smart in new outfits courtesy of Tesco. George has worked out that nice clothes can help you look attractive, a good deduction for a 5 year old I think.

Where my desk is at the moment - before we move in  

View from the office corridor

Well we got our office lease confimed today - moving in officially on the 27th Feb. That has sparked a frenzy of activity to organise insurance, VAT registration and general thinking overload. My laptop is so full of images of the office it is refusing to save anything longer than a couple of sentences to the hard disk! I went a bit mad with the camera phone just taking pics of where the business is going to be. Exciting times.

Busy day, kids are now in bed and it is time for a rest.
I'm thinking of setting up another blog to put comments on silly health and safety stories that appear in the press, something like RiskyClips ...
The dog is asleep on my foot, and the cats are all on the other chair so all is peace and tranquility here.

Dumfries...on the beach at Sandyhills 

I've been loading a few photos on a new gizmo called 'Hello', thoroughly recommend it for ease of use. FTPing everything individually onto a website can be such a hassle. Why can't normal webdesign software do this stuff. Blogs are so much better.

Beccles Summer 05 - lovely sunny day! 

Fudgeee - you hum it, I'll chew it 

Snape Maltings 

Arran 

Flash and Ninja 

After a massive gap in blogging I'm feeling inspired to have another go.
Lots of people seem to have lovely blogs with images and wonderful expressive entries. It all seems such a good way to leave a mark on the web!

Meantime back in the real world I guess it could also be just another way of procrastinating and avoiding doing something else :-)

I just wonder at how time flies by and I frequently can't remember what I did yesterday, let alone tell anyone about it.

For the record...yesterday I
Sat in front of the computer and switched between Ebay and Google quite a lot.
I read something called BDaily and decided I could do with getting some free consultancy to help out on brand imaging and then I went to get the kids from school.
After that it was off to Durham to see a potential tutor to help them with literacy and we got back at around 7.30pm...day gone! Well almost as I then spent some time looking for the Ladybird books that the tutor recommended, which involved more Ebay 'research' and a purchase from Amazon.

Today I've been double checking on the Ladybirds via Ebay and getting on with some project documentation. 3 hours to go until kid collection time!