Recent Posts Tagged With 'family events'

• What are you doing to extend your life right now?

  Posted on Sunday July 13th, 2008 at 04:25 in family events

  The strange thing is that whilst most of us would like to extend the period over which we enjoy a healthy life, very few of us actually get around to doing something about it. Oh, there’s lots of people around who exercise and many who keep to ...

• Do civil servants not bother to read EU directives?

  Posted on Saturday July 5th, 2008 at 12:29 in family events

  For reasons which all my regular reasons will know I’ve been following the progress of British nationality legislation over the last few years. Quick summary to bring ‘yall up to speed…. Pre-1982 children born in the UK took their n...

• Blasts from the past

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 16:40 in UK, family events

  Isn’t it strange the way that when someone you’ve not seen in several years appears on the scene, it’s as though the years between didn’t exist? I’ve just had quite an enjoyable night chatting with an old work colleage (...

• The baby-boomers are getting old

  Posted on Friday June 20th, 2008 at 06:00 in family events

  It’s odd to think that the baby boomers born after the second world war are now closing on retirement and generally getting old. One sure sign of that is the shift in the mix of products that various companies have been putting out over the las...

• Do you work at your relationship?

  Posted on Monday June 16th, 2008 at 15:29 in family events

  Most of us spend far more time working at our job than we do working on our relationships which is pretty crazy when you think about it as jobs aren’t forever whereas we at least start out hoping that our relationship will be. Marriage advice ...

• Almost into the summer toy buying time

  Posted on Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 11:50 in family events

  As the summer holidays approach, so too does the time when you’ll be looking for stuff to fill up the hours that the school used to wear out the little guys. These days the assumption that everything is electronic is deeply ingrained, but it do...

• How will we do the move this time?

  Posted on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008 at 14:03 in family events

  Last time around, we hired a truck and did the move ourselves. I thought it was a bit of an adventure, Wendy said “never again” so it looks like this time it’ll be professional movers that’ll be doing the work. In practice, th...

• A possible sale?

  Posted on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008 at 13:51 in france, family events, home improvements

  We’ve had our place listed with several estate agents for a while now and had sort-of settled into the thinking that it would sell “sometime” but probably not that soon. These days, you get a lot of “window shoppers” whe...

• A new washing machine

  Posted on Friday March 14th, 2008 at 15:31 in commentary, family events

  Yeah, I know, boring. However, interestingly our strategy of simply buying the cheapest available machine nearly four years back and replacing it when it was at the end of its life does appear to have been the correct one. The original one cost us ar...

• Almost at the opening night!

  Posted on Tuesday March 11th, 2008 at 16:22 in commentary, family events

  James’ nursery school is in the throes of producing a film based on the Arabian nights tales. Well, we think it’s on that as James is less than forthcoming about his role in the production beyond mentioning the other day that he had to ha...