My Gran, Eileen, passed away peacefully this morning.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord And let perpetual light shine upon them her.
She was a wonderful women who welcomed everybody in to home and then feed them until they could escape out of the front door.
All thoughts, and prayers are with her children and family and and we will celebrate her life over the coming week.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
icake
At the weekend Wayne hosted a Stag do for his mate, Wayne.
They went tank paint balling, had a BBQ and spent the evening playing computer games. As part of these events I was asked to make a cake ... in the shape of a computer!
Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to make it from scratch so after a lot of thinking I found the solution by buying a large tray cake and a Swiss roll and a lot of icing sugar.
Wayne took a screenshot of one of his computer games for the screen and we got candy letters create a qwerty keyboard! The Swiss roll was used to make the mouse (spot the error!) which resulted in the icake.
Wayne was very inpressed with it :)
Generation 2 of the icake is currently in the planning stages.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Lucky Duck!
I have just been to the garden center with mum.
We were greeted with free strawberries and cream, and then informed that they where having a charity garden party and there were tents with fair games that we could play on so we decided to have a go a hook a duck!
I won some writing paper but mum won the star prize which was a choice of a small BBQ, some solar lights or a mini green house. She picked the green house and was so chuffed that she talked about it for a further hour and a bit as we went round the garden center and all the way home.
The mini green house is 1.5 m tall and approx 0.5 in width and depth so not to small.
Mum is a happy bunny and is currently planting cabbages...
well done mum!
We were greeted with free strawberries and cream, and then informed that they where having a charity garden party and there were tents with fair games that we could play on so we decided to have a go a hook a duck!
I won some writing paper but mum won the star prize which was a choice of a small BBQ, some solar lights or a mini green house. She picked the green house and was so chuffed that she talked about it for a further hour and a bit as we went round the garden center and all the way home.
The mini green house is 1.5 m tall and approx 0.5 in width and depth so not to small.
Mum is a happy bunny and is currently planting cabbages...
well done mum!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Windmill hill
Yippee, I am finally feeling alot better!
So to enjoy this fact and the glorious weather, Wayne and I thought we would go for a little walk and ended up at Windmill Hill, which is near Beckon Hill. It was named so because it used to have a windmill on it.
So off we plod towards where the hill should be, following the signs which say Windmill Hill. When we found the road we realised we gone to far so we turned round and found a small path and decided to follow that and found ourselves strolling through some pretty woods and eventually we found what was left of the windmill.
We then made out way back throughthe a young part of the national forest to the car.
Wayne had been cycling in the morning and I was knackered from by then so after a quick look at the bird feeding area we came home.
I hope we can have more weather like this we can explore more of the local countryside and I will be feeling better so can play for longer!
So to enjoy this fact and the glorious weather, Wayne and I thought we would go for a little walk and ended up at Windmill Hill, which is near Beckon Hill. It was named so because it used to have a windmill on it.
So off we plod towards where the hill should be, following the signs which say Windmill Hill. When we found the road we realised we gone to far so we turned round and found a small path and decided to follow that and found ourselves strolling through some pretty woods and eventually we found what was left of the windmill.
We then made out way back throughthe a young part of the national forest to the car.
Wayne had been cycling in the morning and I was knackered from by then so after a quick look at the bird feeding area we came home.
I hope we can have more weather like this we can explore more of the local countryside and I will be feeling better so can play for longer!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
the millionth english word?
According to Global Language Monitor (GLM) the millionth English word is ...
Web 2.0
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8092549.stm
"Web 2.0" refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, User-centered design[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0)
To put my two penny's worth I would like to point out this is:
a) a phrase
b) contains a number
c) it is made up a two separate 'words' that all ready exist
therefore I don't consider web 2.0.to be a word.
Web 2.0
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8092549.stm
"Web 2.0" refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, User-centered design[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0)
To put my two penny's worth I would like to point out this is:
a) a phrase
b) contains a number
c) it is made up a two separate 'words' that all ready exist
therefore I don't consider web 2.0.to be a word.
Doh
When ill it is advisable to email you boss and let him know you won't be in today..
So you search for you bosses email, hit reply, write email and go back to sleep.
You wake up to a missed call and six voice mails saying you not called to say you are off. So I checked my emails to see I had sent it and noticed and email from me! I sent the email to myself instead of to work. DOH!
Lucky my boss is understanding.
So you search for you bosses email, hit reply, write email and go back to sleep.
You wake up to a missed call and six voice mails saying you not called to say you are off. So I checked my emails to see I had sent it and noticed and email from me! I sent the email to myself instead of to work. DOH!
Lucky my boss is understanding.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Miracle Fruit
I thought I would use this evening to find some interesting stuff for my taste theme RSC social and I have stumbled across some miracle fruit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit
http://www.lime.com/blog/jessicaharlan/2009/02/24/tricking_your_taste_buds
Basically this fruit makes everything taste sweet. So being brave I have order some, it will be here at the weekend ... will let you know...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit
http://www.lime.com/blog/jessicaharlan/2009/02/24/tricking_your_taste_buds
Basically this fruit makes everything taste sweet. So being brave I have order some, it will be here at the weekend ... will let you know...
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