Here's Owen after baking alot of mince pies today. He was enthusiastic if a little heavy handed at the more delicate phases, the bit he found hardest was Delia's enforced 20 min break half way through whilst waiting for the pastry to 'rest' in the fridge. The finished result tastes great but do have a number of finger sized holes in them due to some 'testing' before they went in the oven. (The holes are Owen sized, not me sized)
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Nativity by three year olds
Imagine a nativity performed by three year olds with one year olds doing all the songs - mildly silly but according to Catherine quite entertaining. Owen is the one dressed in white in the back row holding his ear and not singing or doing any actions! PS: If you have to find white trousers as part of a "star" costume for a one year old can I advise going straight to the girls section and buying a pair of sparkly white cords with a silver belt rather than wasting ages in lots of different shops realizing that rather unsurprisingly no one makes white trousers for baby boys.
I'd like to teach the world to read
Not content with educating Coventry 6 year olds at work, Becca willing gives up her time for a little paired reading at weekends. She seems a little frustrated at Owens lack of progress, he just keeps wanting to look at the car page and is a little uncertain about sub clauses.
So here it is merry .... (and so on and so forth)
The season of unbridled joy and shopping is upon us. The video player is getting a good work out at school and the tree has put in an appearance at home. Although, I am going to write a strongly worded letter to Home-base due to the slightly miss shapen appearance of our tree. They appear to have done some liberal trimming of the mid section and made it look at best weird and at worst very weird. Still, on the plus side the lights worked straight out of the box with no replacing of bulbs or excessive untangling of cable.
Monday, 10 December 2007
Straight Blazin'
Mark and I are going to be putting our 'fingers in the air and pushing the button four times' on sunday night as we pay a visit to the Westwood sponsored Coventry Blaze. Its part two of our sports tour of Coventry. Part one was the Wasps Munster game at the Ricoh which scored very highly for quality of game, volume of drunk Irish people and size of inflatable men. We await the results of the Ice Hockey outing with baited breath.
Christmas and winter meetings
Our tree is up. Looks good if a little anorexic, homebase (yes, you read that right - no B & Q trees for us now we live on the right side of the tracks, some people say you pay extra, I just think its nearer) decided to trim it down and it looks oddly tall and thin - very space efficient but not very atheistically pleasing.
In other news, the winter meetings went by without any major Red Sox action, annoying as its now been ages and ages of Snantanna talk - I need to know either way as I am getting board of reading idle speculation. Plus if tehy trade Ellsbury I'll have to resign my fanship...
In other news, the winter meetings went by without any major Red Sox action, annoying as its now been ages and ages of Snantanna talk - I need to know either way as I am getting board of reading idle speculation. Plus if tehy trade Ellsbury I'll have to resign my fanship...
Saturday, 27 October 2007
The world of sport (revisited)
So, a few weeks on and how were my predictions.
1) The rugby team got slapped in the final, silly penalties and no invention meant an easy win for S.Africa. Still, if you'd offered me the final before the tournament I'd have bitten your hand off.
2) They did indeed.
3) Lampard was not picked - excellent. But England still lost. With luck they will fail to qualify and football fans will begin to realise how poor we are.
4) Completely and utterly wrong. Go Sox. Beckett is Mr October and even JD Drew is hitting the little white thing with the long stick with reasonable regularity.
So 1 for 4. I love being English, my natural desire for dissapointment is often fullfilled.
1) The rugby team got slapped in the final, silly penalties and no invention meant an easy win for S.Africa. Still, if you'd offered me the final before the tournament I'd have bitten your hand off.
2) They did indeed.
3) Lampard was not picked - excellent. But England still lost. With luck they will fail to qualify and football fans will begin to realise how poor we are.
4) Completely and utterly wrong. Go Sox. Beckett is Mr October and even JD Drew is hitting the little white thing with the long stick with reasonable regularity.
So 1 for 4. I love being English, my natural desire for dissapointment is often fullfilled.
And they were all yellow...
Look at Sam Jones, see how he shines for you, and all the things you do, his eyes were all yellow.
Disapointingly there was nothing in the coldplay lyrics about having a face full of spaghetti.
Disapointingly there was nothing in the coldplay lyrics about having a face full of spaghetti.
World Cup Fever
Owen gets into the spirit of the Rugby World cup with an England shirt and ball, maybe the England team might have done better if they had remembered their cricket stumps...
Monday, 15 October 2007
The world of sport...
The world of sport (or at least my bit of it) is going rather well at the moment. Obviously the rugby chaps have done well, but the cricketers seem to be finding their feet, footballers are kicking acceptably, and even the Red Sox are scaling the heights. I do however feel a slight unease with how well things seem to be going, and so for the record here are my predictions for the coming weeks.
1) The rugby team lose the final but come home with heads held high because they punched above their weight. I'm a little annoyed as I went to the trouble of getting a projector from school wich essentially meant I could watch England fail bigger and louder than normal.
2) The cricketers forget how to win as quickly as they seemed to remember.
3) McClaren can't resisit picking the arch muppet Lampard again and England lose to Russia and then croatia, they qualify by the skin of their teeth but everyone is left with a nasty "I wish they'd appointed Martin O'Neil" taste in their mouths.
4) The Red Sox blow up, Beckett pitches in game 7 and having previously been the October God he gets carted deep for lots and Terry in a moment of madness thinks "Cometh the hour cometh the gagne" - Gange comes, then goes again very rapidly over the centre field wall. JD Drew continues where he left off at the end of September and does nothing for $13millon. Fenway gets hit by a freak New England Hurricane and is utterly destroyed and MLB relocate the team to Wisconsin.
How about that for some good old fasioned Briish negativity. Reaslistically i'd settle for 2 from 2.
1) The rugby team lose the final but come home with heads held high because they punched above their weight. I'm a little annoyed as I went to the trouble of getting a projector from school wich essentially meant I could watch England fail bigger and louder than normal.
2) The cricketers forget how to win as quickly as they seemed to remember.
3) McClaren can't resisit picking the arch muppet Lampard again and England lose to Russia and then croatia, they qualify by the skin of their teeth but everyone is left with a nasty "I wish they'd appointed Martin O'Neil" taste in their mouths.
4) The Red Sox blow up, Beckett pitches in game 7 and having previously been the October God he gets carted deep for lots and Terry in a moment of madness thinks "Cometh the hour cometh the gagne" - Gange comes, then goes again very rapidly over the centre field wall. JD Drew continues where he left off at the end of September and does nothing for $13millon. Fenway gets hit by a freak New England Hurricane and is utterly destroyed and MLB relocate the team to Wisconsin.
How about that for some good old fasioned Briish negativity. Reaslistically i'd settle for 2 from 2.
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