I will get back to more regular blogging, though I can't make a promise on it because work, websites and of course family are taking up most of my time.
For example, I spent 5 hours last night trying to figure out a code problem and didn't succeed. After research I found lit was a known Wordpress problem, but no-one had been able to fix it. Trying to solve these kinds of problems make the hours just melt away.
Still no likelihood of a possible return to writing, though I do have some old stuff I could post on MaJaToScribes at some point. Interestingly, the highest viewed story on that blog is an odd coffe-break fiction story called Angie.
Sunday 16 December 2012
Thursday 25 October 2012
My son, the genius
At 8 years old, Luke is at an age where he gets homework regularly. This includes weekly a spelling test, which he's been acing with 10/10 every week this term.
That's excellent, but not the main story of this post.
Ben has only just started school a few weeks ago, but he likes to do homework too. Teachers don't really give reception kids homework so we set him tasks such as drawing or sounding out his letters.
Yesterday morning I asked Luke to look at his spellings to prepare for his next test. Ben decided he wanted to do some spellings too, so I asked him to write a few basic words that he can read but not necessarily write yet.
He got them all right. Great. Still not the punchline though!
I left the room for a moment and when I came back he had written a word and asked me to look at what he had written. I was astonished to see he had written in excellent hand-writing (for a 4 year old) the word "synopsis".
Stunned, I asked him where he had heard that word and how did he know how to spell it let alone write it. With a big pleased-with-himself grin he pointed at the word printed further down on the piece of scrap paper he had written on!
That's excellent, but not the main story of this post.
Ben has only just started school a few weeks ago, but he likes to do homework too. Teachers don't really give reception kids homework so we set him tasks such as drawing or sounding out his letters.
Yesterday morning I asked Luke to look at his spellings to prepare for his next test. Ben decided he wanted to do some spellings too, so I asked him to write a few basic words that he can read but not necessarily write yet.
He got them all right. Great. Still not the punchline though!
I left the room for a moment and when I came back he had written a word and asked me to look at what he had written. I was astonished to see he had written in excellent hand-writing (for a 4 year old) the word "synopsis".
Stunned, I asked him where he had heard that word and how did he know how to spell it let alone write it. With a big pleased-with-himself grin he pointed at the word printed further down on the piece of scrap paper he had written on!
Thursday 4 October 2012
Football girls!
This is an odd one. An odd one indeed.
From time to time I look at the webmaster stats for this blog and recently I noticed that my blog had a large amount of search impressions for Arsenal girls, Man Utd girls, girls in football shirts, hot girls, soccer girls, and bizarrely "Man United fail".
The only thing I can think of that might've caused this was a post poking fun at Ashley Cole, and a tag on the post was "Girls Aloud"!
Yeah, I know this post is only going to increase the likelihood of this phenomena, but I see it as a bit of an experiment.
So, let's give 'em what they're after!
Firstly, here's Arsenal girls (which also covers girls in Arsenal shirts)
Erm, couldn't find a Manchester Utd Girls game, so here's FC Utd of Manchester girls team instead.
Man Utd fail? Well, here's David Beckham getting "punked" by Rio Ferdinand.
Okay. Here's a different epic fail for you.
Finally. Some shirts.
If you're a Man Utd or Arsenal fan who have visited this site please leave (a nice!) comment - I would love to know if this little experiment worked. Thanks.
Apologies if there's any offence referring to the ladies teams as girls. This was purely to link in with the references earlier (and for optimisation!)
Normal blogging (i.e. largely inactive) status will be resumed once more.
From time to time I look at the webmaster stats for this blog and recently I noticed that my blog had a large amount of search impressions for Arsenal girls, Man Utd girls, girls in football shirts, hot girls, soccer girls, and bizarrely "Man United fail".
The only thing I can think of that might've caused this was a post poking fun at Ashley Cole, and a tag on the post was "Girls Aloud"!
Yeah, I know this post is only going to increase the likelihood of this phenomena, but I see it as a bit of an experiment.
So, let's give 'em what they're after!
Firstly, here's Arsenal girls (which also covers girls in Arsenal shirts)
Erm, couldn't find a Manchester Utd Girls game, so here's FC Utd of Manchester girls team instead.
Man Utd fail? Well, here's David Beckham getting "punked" by Rio Ferdinand.
Okay. Here's a different epic fail for you.
Finally. Some shirts.
If you're a Man Utd or Arsenal fan who have visited this site please leave (a nice!) comment - I would love to know if this little experiment worked. Thanks.
Apologies if there's any offence referring to the ladies teams as girls. This was purely to link in with the references earlier (and for optimisation!)
Normal blogging (i.e. largely inactive) status will be resumed once more.
Sunday 30 September 2012
New Star Wars blog
I've started a new blog documenting my Star Wars collection.
Its early days but please check it out: -Original Star Wars
Its early days but please check it out: -Original Star Wars
Saturday 28 July 2012
Tuesday 29 May 2012
NorfolkPlaces continues to grow
The new website I launched late lat year, www.norfolkplaces.com, is growing in popularity and new content continues to be added.
We've covered many locations over the past few months, including casltes, dinsoaurs, indoor play areas, stately homes, zoos, farms, broads, walks and lots more.
There's loads more for me to add to the site, so why not join us on Twitter @norfolkplaces to keep tabs on the latest posts.
We've covered many locations over the past few months, including casltes, dinsoaurs, indoor play areas, stately homes, zoos, farms, broads, walks and lots more.
There's loads more for me to add to the site, so why not join us on Twitter @norfolkplaces to keep tabs on the latest posts.
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