G’rrrrr – five times in the night – FIVE TIMES And three times the night before. Ben the master sleep-depriver strikes again.

One more before bed. It’s always been said that it’s great to be a grandparent or aunt/uncle because you can hand back kids when they start screaming. What I haven’t appreciated before is that the parent probably also wants you to hand them back when the start screaming. The chances are you weren’t the cause […]

Abstract thought for the day – it’s actually really hard to do exactly 70 on the motorway. I think there are three main reasons for this: Physically it seems hard to maintain exactly the right pressure on the throttle. I’m not sure why this should be, when I don’t have a problem nailing 30 without […]

Ben’s getting really good at sleeping now – he has only needed feeding in the middle of the night once in the last couple of weeks! He does tend to wake up and give a couple of squawks in the night, but then he gets himself back off to sleep, and we don’t even have […]

Must give a quick mention to The street bible by Rob Lacey. It’s a complete reworking/summary of the Holy Bible in modern (street) language for those who “have never read the Bible, or have read it too much“. I have personally found it quite inspiring, particularly how he works the four gospels into a single […]

Is it still called writer’s block when it’s not something you have to do? I mean, there was all the to-do over J K Rowling’s alleged writer’s block with Harry Potter V, and I certainly stared blankly at a screen for hours when trying to dream up phrases for my thesis. Actually, that’s not entirely […]

Nothing particularly to say (although this is nothing new), but a silly amount of time to kill while A feeds the little ‘un. Food this evening is curry, but one which we’d cooked up in a batch and frozen, so ‘cooking’ it actually just means dumping it in a saucepan and heating it ’till it […]

Really catching up on my (long) back catalg of films I’ve been meaning to see but never quite got around to. Have now chalked up both High Fidelity (which was fine – nothing special, but nothing bad either) and This is Spinal Tap, which was absolutely fantastic, and about ten times better than I was […]

Well, no Empire Records review, but I have done lots of other exciting things… First of all, I’ve finally made this website dynamic, which means what you’re reading is a page generated on the fly from my database! You may well wonder what the advantage of this is, and that would be a good question […]

Just a note to say that I finally got around to watching Empire Records – what a great film. It definitely deserves a review in it’s own right, so I’ll aim to do that maybe later on today. Ben status – about 5.10am wake up, which isn’t too bad (and is a lot better than […]