Nottinghamshire County Council
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Happy Anniversary Sesame Street. Here’s the perfect cake to celebrate
As Google shows today, it’s the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, making Big Bird more like an Old Bird now. But it brought back a memory of something – the best Sesame Street cake ever spotted. And perhaps – if we all band together – we can get the recipe off the girl that made
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Dear Daughter 4/11/09 – Well you aren’t going blind
Well you did the eyetest and passed with 20-20 (or 6-9 as they apparently do in the UK, according to the optician), but the best hoot came from after you got the eyedrops put in and it left you with pupils that were wild! It looked as if you had taken LSD or acid with
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Dear Daughter 3/11/09 – Eyesight test time
As per the previous Dear Daughter posting, got you an eyesight test but if you can tell me in the morning that you can read this OK without squinting or struggling to make the words out then we’ll cancel.* ps, sorry about crashing in beside you, but you always say you want more cuddles. And
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Dear Bump 3/11/09 – you take those hormoans back right now
Dear see-you-in-May Bump, whatever one is releasing into your mother’s bloodstream just now could you stop? She’s being a tad grumpy and I’m crashing with your sister tonight because of it – if I thought the womb had room, I’d come in and annoy you. For this, you’re getting called Zanzibar. Or couch, ‘cos that’s
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Book Review: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
And here we have the follow-up book by the author of The Time Traveller’s Wife (great book, not so great film) and it’s a strange one. Review without spoilers follow…
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Dear Daughter 2/11/09 – Missing the point of Halloween
Dear Daughter, it’s way too early in the morning, so I’m going to introduce you to the concept of bullet points: There’s concern over your eyesight after your mum spotted you squinting at reading materials. If your eyesight is throwing in the towel, expect war over how close you sit to the TV and how