I am feeling pretty happy, as I usually do for about two weeks after my birthday. I just love birthdays, always have, always will. Even the feeling of rushing headlong towards decrepit middle age and inevitable death cannot bring me down!
Of course, this was helped by several nice happenings today. I received two presents in […]

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me
Happy birthday dear Emily, happy birthday to me
Okay, I admit this is just a post for you all to comment on and wish me many happy returns - you know you want to!
Jan got me Ratchet & Clank 2 (PS2 game) as well as the harp, so I […]

Well, I went to get the Xena table and lo and behold, the seller also had a harp from the Xena prop auction, which she agreed to sell me instead of the table! The table was fine, not polystyrene, but had strange floral top, which she assured me was genuine, just not what I was […]

For your audio enjoyment, what it sounds like when an Archie is chasing you!
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This is what has been going on outside my office door all afternoon!

I have another exciting Xena item on the hop - a Xena / Hercules prop table!
It has been offered to me for $50 but it seems a lot for a table that I cannot see properly in the photo.
What do my loyal blog readers suggest?!?

Jemsweb seems to have been discovered by some Viagra-hawking comment spammers.
I am installing a new plugin that will hopefully curtail their activities somewhat, in the meantime, please ignore!
Grrr….

Had a good weekend - Noo Noo came and spent the day with us on Saturday which was great as we haven’t been able to have much quality time as she is Grandma-sitting. Lovely to catch up with her properly and the boys were very happy to spend some time with her. We all went […]

Jan and Archie went to the supermarket last night and stopped off at the toy store. Archie got to choose which bag full of plastic animals he wanted, and he chose a bag of marine life. Then in the supermarket, they were looking at the book section. Jan said “Look at this Archie”, and showed […]

Well, let us not go into details, but suffice it to say that we are Playstation 2 enabled again, and in possession of the karaoke game, Singstar.
It’s surprisingly good. Kind of tricky - does a good job on judging one’s vocal performance - it measures your pitch, phrasing and length of notes. You […]

Due to popular demand, here is a photo of me and my new Xena shield - pretty cool huh? It is only made of paper mache or something, so wouldn’t be much good in a fight, and has a lot of glue etc on it. But it’s the real thing! The seller got it from […]