Dins has just educated me on this incredibly funky car, the Nissan Figaro. Only 20,000 were ever made, in 1991 in Japan. Me want!!

After looking around that site I linked to for Strangers With Candy, I discovered it is OUT on DVD in the U.S. - so I just logged on and bought Seasons 1 & 2. I’m sure Lynne will looking forward to coming over and experiencing strange flashbacks while watching.
Yay! Very excited. [...]

This whole blog is done in Movable Type, which I dearly love but which can be an absolute bitch to try and customise. I have given the site a slight cosmetic overhaul, and then decided I would like to organise the photo categories by month, e.g. you would see all the Archie pics for [...]

Caught up with young Glyn last night. He seems very well, and the tour went brilliantly so that’s very good. We had a lovely roast dinner in the backyard.
Archie is now sleeping on a bed on the floor! He has left the cot behind him… sad… but impressive. You just tuck [...]

Jan and I just impulsively bought a new double pushchair - that’s stroller for our Aus & US readers. It’s very cute, “limo” style so Archie can ride in the front and Harry in the back. Very nice colours too - apple green and charcoal - quite tasteful. Jan has been [...]

Just had a home visit from Archie’s physio - she was very impressed with his almost-crawling. He is very close to pulling himself up to standing too! Clever boy.
My latest dream appliance is the Samsung DVD-H40A digital recorder - almost a Replay TV - hard drive based television recording. But I think I will wait [...]

The new Buffy game is looking fantastic. Maybe I will have to get a X Box after all!
Off to the birthing centre tonight for ‘orientation’ - should be interesting!
Happy birthday Neddles and Karen.

Scary article in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning about banks and the delaying of settlements - strangely appropriate! Eep!
And have developed a new technology need… the Nomad Jukebox MP3 player with 6GB of storage - wow. Sadly impending arrival means spending on such devices is rather unlikely.