home and away
Well, we’ve been busy! Lets see, what’s happened….
Thursday we all went out for a bike ride in the evening and Aprilia’s stabiliser broke and proved that it was still needed as she wobbled in scary fashion when Duke pretended to fix it and we tried to carry on. Hmph. We have "off road" ones for her seeing as we ride in the forrest so much but I’m not replacing them at ££££ so she will have to make do with cheepo ones from now and hope they don’t clog up too badly in the mud!
Then on Friday we set off for Jax and Tim’s house. Now, me ,being my normal somewhat distracted self, always leaves something I need at home. Usually it’s something like toothbrushes or sometimes a book I’ve promised etc however, this time I excelled myself arriving there without any overnight things (w hadn’t arranged to stop over but we hadn’t said we wern’t either!) or my phone or my specs or my mooncup, which I could be excused for as I was definitely not due til Tuesday at the earliest (Never mind hey, at least with a 9 day post ovulatory period I didn’t get much time to be premenstrual) and all I can say is that I really don’t understand how people think that Tampax are more convenient or nicer to use than my wonderful mooncup which was the first thing I reached for when I walked through the door this afternoon…..
Anyway, we had a lovely weekend for which I would like to publicly say thank you! Whilst small people played with varying degrees of co-operation ranging from the very good to the decidedly shady (how exactly *do* you keep a straight face when faced with your own dear but very bossy child informing you that another child is being bossy exactly????
) Jax and I discussed and pored over yarns and patterns and a sewing machine. There was also detailed financial discussions with Tim about what I need to do to keep Duke from needing to work until he is 80 to pay off our mortgage now that it’s become very aparent that the endowments were a total waste of time. So i shall be dealing with taht over the next week! And there was food, lots of it, and all very good. And there was alcohol which was very pleasant especially as I was sleeping in the living room so didn’t need to worry about staggering up the stairs 
Since getting home I have installed the newest release of Ubuntu on my PC. Everything is very rosy, everything is working better, quicker etc. Teh games are just as good except it specifically said that it needed to delete a particular bit of something that makes a chess game work so I let it and now I need to reinstall the same thing to get the chess game working again….. irritating but not life threatening! What is lifethreatening though is that I can no longer dock my PDA to it. No way, no how. So how exactly am I supposed to function???????
