May 2003

Ben quickens his pace, sidestepping past his parents, aunt and uncle, along the kerb stones to draw alongside his cousin. With the cord wrapped several times round his fist he grips the duffle sports bag by the nylon fabric. About…

I did manage to get one measily paragraph written last night before I went to bed… It was the lead up to the more upbeat conversation between Ben and his father, which in turn leads to Ben going off on…

Well it’s done. Well, when I say done I mean half done. The wallpaper has gone (alarmingly easily actually) and been replaced by this Pharoh Gold paint from Dulux down one side of the lounge. I now just have to…

I’m not sure how it happened, but after just one week of idle gazing across the room at that little corner of wallpaper – a piece of it came off in my hands this morning. Okay, so it was helped…

The following tests were developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge ( from the Guardian Essential Differences page ) Take the interactive empathy quotient test Take the interactive systemising quotient test Baron-Cohen’s…

SimilarMinds.com Compatibility Test How Compatible are You with me?  Go on, give it a whirl…! (thanks to rachel2205 for finding the site…)

Mum and Dad came to visit this week, along with Sam – which was interesting – Pepper quickly informed the poor dog who was boss with a fine display of arched-back, hissing and growling. I think Sam took an immediate…

Just saw this in my friends view and had to share it further – thanks gooroo… ( the fish family )

I have a widget thing for my computer now – it’s a Billionton USB Portable Drive – about the size of my little finger it’s purple and transparent and winks at me with a little green light and it holds…

The day was Wednesday. The weather was, err … wet, very wet, and the The Boathouse was grotty (as it turns out), but Wallingford (as nice as it sounds) was a convenient meeting place (and half way between Bicester and…