AC:WW

Oh my goodness, we have Animal Crossing and I am addicted. I never wanted to be just thought would have a litle play and put it down lol. We only got the game on Monday, as Robynne and Andy decided to take some games to trade in. I knew she wanted AC:WW as she had liked when she borrowed from a friend, I was also vaguely aware of the game. But I never thought it would get me, but it has... I paid the mortgage off in less than two days. The only thing that is sad is I have no friends who play the game, mmmm maybe they are more sensible than me lol and knew of it's hidden attraction and kept away. Does anyone know of a support group for poor addicted people like me....... no oh well shall go back to it then.



On another note have gotten the next issue of our H.E mag "tHE Sound" all finished and will be sending that out on Friday. It felt a bit touch and go this time, as it was all finished and printed bar Robynne's comic strip which she left to the last minute, so she felt like I was rushing her. But as Andy told her 'if you had done when you were asked, you would have finished it then'....... So fingers crossed, we won't have the same problems next month.

Currently we are in the process of making stickers to go on every available item in the flat, with there Japanese names on. Not just in Japanese but also in Kanji as Robynne is learning Japanese and labelling the whole flat will help...... mmmmm can't see the cat enjoying a label on her back tho'. But thankfully we won't be goingthat far as Robynne already knows the name for cat, she - that's Robynne not the cat - found a really great downloadable resource and is using it for at the least an hour a day. Where did she get that from now.... will just check, it's one she found herself not one of the twenty odd that I found for her when she expressed an interest in learning Japanese. Ok here it is it's called Japanese learning Suite it does take over an hour to download, but I took a brief look at it today and found it very good.

Robynne is also now getting back into practising her guitar everyday and she has even agreed to work through her theory books too. Which I'm really pleased about. Then last night Robynne asks me if her bike works as she wants to get a little fitter and riding her bike would be fun. Funny that, we were going to get rid of her bike cause she didn't want it anymore, it's been sat on the balcony for over two years. She won't be riding it any time soon tho' as for one the inner tubes are shot and well it's too small for her. When I bought it I never expected her to sprout up like she has. The funny thing is have been saying for a while that we were all going to get new bikes and Robynne has point blank refused to have anything to do with one. So we shall see how long this lasts for.

Things never change...

... sorry but this is just so funny had to share....



*Well it seems that this is no longer working, ah well it was fun while it lasted. But just in case you really wanted to find the song for yourself - tho' have searched to replace this and no luck so far - it's 'High School Never Ends' by Bowling for Soup.

It's a Thank-You blog today

Doesn't time fly, I didn't realize that I had spent so much time away from H.E. this past week. I have been learning so much about building websites and all those seemingly insignificant little bits of code, that have such great effects. That I haven't been noticing the world around me. I even missed activities well one activity, we were as a family planning on joining our H.E friends for the monthly woodland walk, but the code dragged me back in and I just plain forgot about it till I read through blogs late one night.

I shall blame the lovely book Robynne got me form the library "HTML 4 for Dummies" which to tell the truth have read three times and it still confuses me, thank goodness for 'copy and paste' and good old 'trial and error' as apart from the shop area our business website is more or less finished. Also thanks to Ann and her help I now have a nice link button on the right. I have given up on oscommerce as it's not compatible with our sites host, so I found a nice ecommerce item through another blog so thanks go to Qalballah for that. Must also thank Shirley for all her help, she probably doesn't think she helped me much, but she did. But, the main person I have to thank aloud is my darling daughter Robynne who has put up with my grunts and groans when things haven't worked and who oh so patiently showed me again and again what I did wrong, then checked through different codes to see why things didn't work. Plus she hasn't complained when I've been on the computer for hours on end and she wanted to be lol. Oh better not forget my brother Andy who as always makes sure we drink and eat, even when we don't think we need to lol.

So for the next few days I am going to leave the computer alone, well maybe not totally alone. Shall be concentrating on finishing off my work area and getting things sewn up. So again thanks to all those who have helped me get this venture off the ground. Ok better get on, now where did I put that book again ...... lol

Lets catch up.

Well what a fun time we have been having. Scince my last post we have been busy, what with taking care of our friends three dogs, walking them etc. we ended up with one of them taking up residence for a short while as she got into a fight with the others and came of worse. Resulting in some rather nasty holes in her leg and underbelly. Personally it was rather nice having her around, Robynne got up early to take her out, she also took her out often during the day I think the dog adopted her as she only asked Robynne to take her out. Tho' am pretty sure Robynne didn't enjoy the wet nose in her face first thing in the morning lol.

Unfortunately we never made it to The Science Museum, as well the world conspired against us and roadblocks were forced in our way. Well to be honest we could have made it, but it would have meant leaving one of us behind and even tho' my lovely brother offered I didn't take him up on it. So fingers crossed we will get there sometime this year. Anyway our next outing to the V & A on the 11th April should go to plan.

Then we have the saga of the leaking pipe. Remember I made an appointment for someone to come fix the leaking pipe, well I waited paitently for just over two weeks and then after removing the third bleached towel from under the pipe I rang them again yesterday - well today would have been the third tuesday I had waited for them to come. - So anyway I rang them first thing only to find that the last appointment thay had on file for me was in December when the pipe burst in the first place. Understandably I was a little miffed at the news and promptly requested very politely a new appointment a.s.a.p, so there coming tomorrow after 3pm. Fingers crossed that's the last pipe problem we will have for a good while. Personally I think all the pipework needs replacing along with everything else, but can't expect miracles lol.

Oh and we ended up chucking out the old broken sofas yesterday as we now have some nice cream leather sofas which go so much better with the colour scheme and they make the room look so much bigger ok maybe not so much bigger, but they look good.

My work area is almost complete and we have the frontpage of the website up, we just need to get the other pages links working and to clear out the odd few bits left over from the website template that we don't need. Next job on that is to work out how to get the oscommerce programme to work. Anyway here's our frontpage if your interested Sewing Friend please do tell us what you think and if anyone can explain in simple words how to put the oscommerce stuff in then I will be eternally grateful.

Robynne and her friend Dee have decided to do something to raise money for Red Nose Day this year. So far I think they have got 6 of their friends involved and hopefully we will have more friends joining in too. Anyway here's Robynne's page which gives you details of what they are doing and when.

Oh and does anyone know how to turn this into a button/link to put in the sidebar

Oooh I wish I was a computer geek.....

...... well if only for 10 minutes, things are going well for setting up our new business, until we get to the website lol, it's there we have it, but no-one can see it yet. Why didn't I pay more attention to the computer at school and just stayed out of the warm safe library. We will get it sorted soon, anyway have done the most important thing, have designed a logo - well I thought it important - lol.

So anyway work wise this week has been taken up mostly with Robynne spending alot of time on building website thingys, yes thingys I call them that as have no idea what she was talking about but it looked good. I'm so glad she knows what she's doing or I would be truly lost, can just imagine how I would cope with business without her around. I'd probably end up deleting half the site within minutes lol.

That aside she was off at Chelmsford yesterday for Deep Readers, and today was our monthly H.E meeting which was a really great meeting, some new faces and the time really seemed to fly away. Robynne was even playing quite actively with some of the other youngsters, which was great to see - normally she sits in the corner drawing - as it makes me forget that she's getting older now.

Oh and as I haven't been able to figure out how to upload our H.E mag tHE Sound onto Blogger - there's probably something really simple that I'm missing ..... mmm like a brain - so I thought would do it this way lol. If you would like to see a copy of what the girls put together then send an Email here and I'll email you a pdf copy. See two things I finally worked out how to do lol, a nice email link and pdf'ing a document, oooh next year I could be Lord of the Web....... mmmmm well maybe not lol.