New toaster

Toasters are like jars of mustard, you only get to buy a new one every so often. Ours broke and here's the carefully selected replacement with digital display and lit progress bar. It definatly wasn't the only four slice one tesco had...

The last word.

A branch of the new scientist that I have blogged about before. Here is a question that mark and I submitted. All comments/answers welcome.

Which bounces higher given a flat solid surface and the same drop height and velocity, a rubber bouncy ball or a ball bearing. If you scaled them up to be the size of a car wool the result be the same?

You can find the last word blog at: www.newscientist.com/blog/lastword

Red bushes

Nice.

The great stupendo and his amazing coffee trick

The great stupendo (real name Mark Grew) did his amazing coffee trick after church today. It involves him being served a cup of coffee where the milk has sunk leaving a nice layered effect. Here it is:

More from the land of St Albans

The visit was for harry's second birthday. Owen took full advantage of the presents, making sure he played with them all, especially the Thomas costume.


A good time was had by all, especially me as I really enjoyed the carrott and roasted red pepper soup Tom had whipped up. Say what you like about Tom but you can't deny the boy makes great soup...

Grandparents and grandchildren

Here's mum and dad with their collection of four...

Joint TV watching

Grew children plus owen. What else would you do on a Sunday afternoon.

Indoor climbing frame

A fire

A good bonfire party needs a bonfire or it's just false advertising. Here's a picture of jeff's. Mainly made up of old chairs and fence pannels but it went well.

Glorified patio

Spent this morning laying Slabs in church. Pews have moved and the resulting gap needed re slabbing. Just like laying a patio really but a little more pressure in a seven hundred year old church! Still, got to play with a cement mixer all day and felt like a proper builder, pleanty of rediculusly sweet tea and standing around the cement mixer sucking air in through our teeth...