Sunday, 31 December 2017
Saturday, 30 December 2017
Amanana
Just got back from seeing my little nephew and his name for me is Amanana. Such a little cutiepie!
Apparently I should become an Amazon personal shopper where customers email me and say "my aunt/uncle/cousin/friend etc is [insert age here] and they like [insert preferences here] but I don't know what to get for them" kinda thing and I send suggestions to them 'cos apparently Andrew and Jacki liked their gifts and my little nephew was more interested in the tube the poster came in than the poster itself lol
That's totally normal though... you give a child a box and set of crayons and they will turn it into a boat or a car or a train or a kitchen or a shop... their imaginations will run wild and all you've paid for is the arty things!
My little nephew will be 3 in mid-April and today proved to me that sometimes the simplest things are the most appreciated and worth more to a toddler than an expensive gift.
Gonna start researching making my own playdough for him at some point soon... just need to get an airtight container for it first! lol
Apparently I should become an Amazon personal shopper where customers email me and say "my aunt/uncle/cousin/friend etc is [insert age here] and they like [insert preferences here] but I don't know what to get for them" kinda thing and I send suggestions to them 'cos apparently Andrew and Jacki liked their gifts and my little nephew was more interested in the tube the poster came in than the poster itself lol
That's totally normal though... you give a child a box and set of crayons and they will turn it into a boat or a car or a train or a kitchen or a shop... their imaginations will run wild and all you've paid for is the arty things!
My little nephew will be 3 in mid-April and today proved to me that sometimes the simplest things are the most appreciated and worth more to a toddler than an expensive gift.
Gonna start researching making my own playdough for him at some point soon... just need to get an airtight container for it first! lol
Happy birthday Marie!
It's Marie's birthday today, so we're going over to Steve's parents to celebrate again.
I'm expecting a delivery before 3pm though, so I hope it turns up before we leave!
I'm expecting a delivery before 3pm though, so I hope it turns up before we leave!
Friday, 29 December 2017
Review: cardigan
**** out of 5
The cardigan arrived this afternoon and I couldn't wait to try it on... it looked chunky and suitable to wear instead of a coat in Autumn and Spring.
Nope.
I'm wearing it now and I'll definitely need a coat with it... on an Indian Summer's evening you could get away with just the cardi instead of a jacket, but you definitely won't get away with no coat if you're hoping to be warm outside in cooler temperatures!
It's good value for under a tenner, just not as warm and cosy as I was hoping is all.
The in-house geek said this morning that...
Steve said this morning that his laptop had only done half of the updates last night so he's got the other 50% running now lol
Thursday, 28 December 2017
There's a reason that you're a geek and I'm not, Steve!
Steve's just tried to explain what he'd done to fix his laptop and it all went flying over my head when he started talking about BIOS and partitions and stuff! lol
His machine seems to pretty much be fixed now though so I don't need to worry about him kicking it off the table overnight lol
His machine seems to pretty much be fixed now though so I don't need to worry about him kicking it off the table overnight lol
My in-house geek has decided to...
Steve is my in-house geek and he hasn't been able to use his laptop since about March and has just been using his Surface to do geeky things since then.
He decided this afternoon would be a good time to try and fix his laptop and he's been messing around with it for about 45 minutes so far. He totally blatted everything he had on it and reinstalled Windows or something.
Whatever he did has worked 'cos he can now use his laptop again... just gotta download and install the 3GB cumulative Windows update or something.
Apparently whatever it was that had screwed up his laptop has gone now and he's back into his machine now and just reinstalling everything now.
Totally beyond me, but Steve is relieved and happily playing with a bigger screen, hard drive and memory now, so he's just gotta be patient with the updates and stuff then he can go back to using his laptop again!
I just hope he doesn't accidentally kick it off the table while he's asleep is all... expensive mistake if he does!!
He decided this afternoon would be a good time to try and fix his laptop and he's been messing around with it for about 45 minutes so far. He totally blatted everything he had on it and reinstalled Windows or something.
Whatever he did has worked 'cos he can now use his laptop again... just gotta download and install the 3GB cumulative Windows update or something.
Apparently whatever it was that had screwed up his laptop has gone now and he's back into his machine now and just reinstalling everything now.
Totally beyond me, but Steve is relieved and happily playing with a bigger screen, hard drive and memory now, so he's just gotta be patient with the updates and stuff then he can go back to using his laptop again!
I just hope he doesn't accidentally kick it off the table while he's asleep is all... expensive mistake if he does!!
Wednesday, 27 December 2017
Review: credit and debit card holder
***** out of 5
If you've got a lot of cards (business cards, credit cards, debit cards, loyalty cards, library cards etc) then this is what you need to keep them all together!
There's so many places to keep everything together that you really don't need any more room!
There's only one negative and that is that it's not that easy to get the cards in the slots, but this is quickly and easily overcome by carefully rubbing the top of the slot so that there's a slight gap that you can easily pull open and there you go! Sorted!
There's so many places to keep everything together that you really don't need any more room!
There's only one negative and that is that it's not that easy to get the cards in the slots, but this is quickly and easily overcome by carefully rubbing the top of the slot so that there's a slight gap that you can easily pull open and there you go! Sorted!
Review: small leather purse
***** out of 5
Perfect little purse!
This has just arrived and I've put everything into it... it's half the size of my previous purse but still has room for everything in it... I had high hopes for it and it's exceeded them! The only slight negative is that business cards, credit cards etc don't fit into all the slots, but if you've got slightly smaller keyfob type cards that are too big to go on keyrings but too small for normal sized card slots, these are ideal!
This has just arrived and I've put everything into it... it's half the size of my previous purse but still has room for everything in it... I had high hopes for it and it's exceeded them! The only slight negative is that business cards, credit cards etc don't fit into all the slots, but if you've got slightly smaller keyfob type cards that are too big to go on keyrings but too small for normal sized card slots, these are ideal!
My first 2 Chrimbo pressies have just arrived
C got me an Amazon voucher for Christmas which I dutifully spent on 7 different things. The first two have just arrived and I'm really happy with them, so I wrote a review of them on Amazon and I'll put them into 2 blog posts on here in a bit.
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