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Chocolate Factory does it again.

I remember being a young boy and having the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory read to me at Broomhill Junior School. I reveled in thinking about the magical rooms and how the candy would taste which Mr Willy Wonka was inventing. You can imagine my delight when they released the 1st Charlie and [...]

Is a green lawn really worth it?

From the Bible we read that even a fallen sparrow is loved, yet we want our lawns to look the best, and who really cares if a few birds get in the way!! We had the unfortunate sadness of cleaning up after 3 of our neigbors decided to "Tru-Green" their lawn. They tell you to [...]

The magic of Stories

I never thought that I’d be telling Scott and Toby the story of Mr Willy Wonka and his Chocolate factory and see their faces shine as I think my face did at the wonder of such a fasinating story. We finished reading this story about 4 months ago and it made me remember what I [...]

Asterisk to the rescue

I’ve just recently brought out traditional phone line into the 21st Century buy introducing VOIP (Voice Over IP) into our home.   It was a big step because I wanted Kristy to feel comfortable using her new IP phone rather than her normal phone. Infact Grandstream make such a phone which acts exactly like a [...]

The great escape

T’was a beautiful day in Eagle Mountain, the sun was out and all the birds we singing, especially Cassy (Scott’s yellow budgie). I thought she might like to be outside and enjoy the company of the other birds feeding in our yard. So out she went and out I went… Well the wind got windier [...]

Plaster of Paris

I can finally bury the hatchet on a question I’ve had for years…. Why do they call is Plaster of Paris? Wine isn’t the only good thing to come out of France! Did you know that after the great fire of London in 1666, the King of France ordered every house to use Calcinated Gypsum [...]

Sickness

It all stated with Toby getting sick & it snowballed from there! then Scott, fillowed by Kristy then Alyson & finally me! Alyson got the works though & is on 3 different medications! But hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for all!

Toby turns 4

My middle son, Toby, turned 4 today and had a great birthday party to match. He chose Care Bear’s as his theme! I was wondering – why – when I later saw the pictures from his party and noticed that half of his invited guests were little girls! Then I started to think “was he [...]

The Amazing Adventures of Chilly Billy

I remembered the other day a book with fasinated me as a young boy of 8 years of age. I can remember to this day the way my Teacher (Mr. Hull) read this book to us. Mr Hull was not a teacher you would mess around with. He was a medium height, red faced, fat [...]

New Years Party

Scott had a sleep over with Brayden at his Grandma and Grandpa’s whilst Toby, Kristy and myself enjoyed the company of Kari, Wade and Linzy (their little dog). Even though Toby missed Scott we had a wonderful evening playing board games and lastly on the X-Box until a few seconds before the ball dropped. We [...]

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