Welcome to my feline nephew Wilco who has just set up his own blog with the help of his daddy, my brother Ned. How exciting to have another member of the family engaged in this exciting activity we call “The Blog”. But Wilco’s blog is a little bit different as it consists of cartoons about […]

Sadly, sold out! :-(
UPDATE: There are still some left! I’m getting one. Buy here

Jan was sick yesterday, so I played solo mum for the day. Crossing fingers that the rest of the family don’t get the horrible tummy bug. Sorry to see Georgina go on Dancing With The Stars, but her dancing was letting her down a bit. Very shocked to see Shane & Nerida in the bottom […]

Well after much fiddling with Javascript and CSS, Jemsweb now has a menu! Hopefully now it will be easier for those non-Flickrites to find their way through the Photos. Still working on hooking into Flickr directly to pull out list of Photosets etc.
Please report any bugs you have with the menu to me, as I […]

This is what the name "Emily" looks like in Japanese:

It is pronounced "EMIRII". (Consonants are pronounced more or less the same way as in English. "I" sounds like ee in meet, but shorter. "E" sounds like e in met. Double vowels like "II" are held for twice the duration of single vowels.)
You can search for […]

A great review for the Phoenix Foundation’s Pegasus that appeared in the Sunday Star Times.
Diverse and perverse - the new album from Wellington’s Phoenix Foundation seals its reputation as the best band in the country…
Ever loved a band so much it hurts? So much that you want to sing its praises to anyone who’ll […]

At Archie’s kindy at mat time, they have been singing Old Macdonald and teaching all the other kids the Makaton signs for the animals. Archie is very happy that all the other children are using signs too! Good on them.
And tomorrow they are going for an outing to the local fire station.
Yay kindy!

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We decided on Saturday to take the boys to the zoo. It’s very handy to our house and we bought a annual pass, thinking it would be a visit we could do all year and the kids would love it. A fair assumption since Harry spends HIS ENTIRE EXISTENCE pointing at pictures of lions going […]

Flickr have just changed their photo display page so that it no longer appears as a Flash object, but as a regular HTML image. All the mod cons like adding to sets, adding notes etc are now accomplished in DHTML! This is a great move. Helen will be very happy as she can now right-click […]