I worked from home a couple of times this week so I picked up Owen from school. Coming back on Thursday, we had a long conversation about brothers. We started talking about the baby and about him being a brother and ...
Owen: I don't want be brother
Me: Why not?
Owen: Brothers always adults. I don't want be adult. I like be small.
Me: But brothers aren't always adults.
Owen: Yes, they are.
Me: But Owen, Jacob is Ellie's brother and he's not an adult.
Owen: Oh! I see! I do want be brother.
Last weekend we went to my parents' for a couple of days. We should have been going with Em's grandmother but she had to delay her flight because she was sick. Anyway, we went to a Remembrance Day service with my parents as my dad was laying a wreath. On the Saturday, Em had to work so I had a day with the boy. We grabbed a couple of cousins and went walking at Danebury Hill Fort. I've been walking there on and off for almost 35 years (now that's scary).
Just before we left the kids found a deep pile of leaves and a small bank in the car park. The result:
Fun was had. Small children had to have leaves removed from unlikely places (both Jake's ears).
So, do we have the only child in the world who would
a) refuse to eat his "teddy bear" pizza
b) ask for more salad
We've raised a foodie. Mostly, he turns his nose up at food targetted at kids but he likes Stilton.
What have we done? He's worked out that the nicest food comes from the farmer's market and Waitrose.
Someone on london.pm was looking for this. Someone found. I want to keep it for those needy moments.
- Picture yourself near a stream.
- Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air.
- No one but you knows your secret place.
- You are in total seclusion from the hectic place called "the World".
- The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.
- The water is crystal clear.
- You can easily make out the face of the person you're holding underwater.
I want this
I need to do a thinkgeek shop again.
I appear to be doing some more of it. Off to the Netherlands next month to do my first onsite course for LT. I'm quite pleased to discover that I'm not actually terrified of teaching a course for the first time whilst doing an onsite for the first time. Sounds like fun. At least it's a perl course.
I'm not the world's most experienced windows user these days. I have to use XP at work. It hurts. It's fiddly. Why?
Now.. I was coping ok until I tried to search for a file. I wanted a search dialog. Why did I get a fucking puppy?
So, it was Owen's third birthday a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was time I uploaded a picture or two of the occasion. Of course, it was my 41st birthday the day before which is vaguely scary. I took Owen to a birthday party yesterday and met someone one year older than me with a 20yr old daughter who has a two year old...
Anyway, this is owen at his birthday party with the train cake he's been coveting for months (that train is sugar icing and he ate it). And here's the fireman's costume that makes him oh *so* happy.
Yesterday, Learning Tree approached me about teaching another course for them. This is good. It's an XML course which is even better. Whilst I was wandering around the LT intranet I looked at that 'want ads' section and saw that they're recruiting for an SQL programming course as well. Of course, it requires Oracle skills that I'm seriously rusty on. So... I think I might take the Learning Tree basic Oracle course.
Of course, that makes me wonder how much an LT course costs if you're an instructor. I'm rather pleased to discover that LT lets instructors do five courses per year for free. Sensible people...
