Gotta be quick the battery is nearly flat

Well Im working on trying out the wine club's first delivery. It came in handy as the students who have been working for us during the summer have all gone back to University, with plenty of gifts, not limited to a bottle of chardonnay.

We decided to shut the second office as there isn't really anyone to sit in it at the moment. Closing the office has meant that we were rather oversupplied with IT equipment. Said 'stuff' is now relocating itself to student residences, parents houses, and our other office which is likely to look a teeny bit full up when we finally squeeze everything into it.

It has resulted in a major IT swap round at home as I refuse to let the kids have computers or televisions in their rooms. So I just had to go to Ikea to sort out the storage. Where I noticed that the staff have kindly located all the desks in the till area ready for the influx of 30,000+ students into the Tyneside/Durham area in the next few weeks. Which saved a lot of traipsing round the isles. Similarly Tescos are doing the same thing so my search for PC speakers (for the kids interactive games) and CD cases (for the games CDs) was rather easier than expected as everything was in the doorway. So despite the shops being packed it was a very painless experience.

The kids now go to the PC rather than the TV, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. They were playing some Viking board game on the computer tonight, looked a bit like chess. I've seen all their videos about ten times each already so it makes a change.

Thanks to the wonders of Ikea we now seem to have more space in the room, despite having added more furniture. Kind of makes me want to move to Sweden :-)