Is it really just about winning?
10 March 2008
Both boys play football for a local club. It’s just children’s football and they both enjoy it. However, one boy plays for a team with the attitude of we have to win, whereas the other boy began as a new team a few seasons ago and a 17 - 0 thrashing was sadly not uncommon. The team isn’t on the receiving end of such score lines now, but a win is a rare and special occurrence still. His team gives everyone a game no matter how skilled they are and each player is equally valued. The other team is entirely different and wins more than it loses and generally the strongest team starts. Both styles have their merits and I have to say months of watching your son lose is a little disheartening and of course it’s good to see them win. Read more
How to lose a day…
4 March 2008
For some time I have been meaning to organise our photos. Since the age of the digital camera our pictures stay on the computer and that is sad. When the boys were younger I used to get the film developed and then the photos went in to albums. I love looking back. It’s the story of our lives in pictures. Yesterday i decided to print off our photos. I was shocked to see that these photos go back 5 or 6 years, so you can imagine how many there are and how long this is going to take!
On Sunday I bought one scrapbook. How silly of me. I clearly need 10 or 20! I realised this as I started going through each folder. I have picked out a selection to go in the scrapbook, but it still took me Sunday afternoon and all of yesterday to get them printed off and in order. I still have to actually put them in to albums. It’s a daunting task and one I wont be repeating! In future I’ll be printing the pictures off as we take them as this is going to take over my life! I desperately want to scrapbook our wedding, so may be as this a recent event I should start here…
Plastic Poison?
28 February 2008
It’s been reported today that Marks and Spencer will be charging customers for their plastic bags in the food department. There’s some debate about the fairness of this, but I say good on them! We see plastic carrier bags dished out too freely in my opinion.
I got on my soap box about this not too long ago. I was so fed up of having my nan’s shopping shoved in to the damn things when I took her shopping despite us having our own reusable bags. I know that the checkout staff were trying to be helpful, but I didn’t and don’t want their bags! I had to ask them each week to stop as we had our own bags and I felt ungrateful and rude in doing this. I didn’t mean to be either, but nor did I want 5 or 6 Asda bags. So I wrote to them and they replied saying that they do attempt to encourage customers to recycle; this wasn’t apparent as each week bags were ripped off the stand for me to use, but in fairness since the complaint it isn’t quite so bad. Double this with my nan announcing the very next week that she was getting short of plastic bags so could I use some to pack her shopping! She’s nearly 86, so I feel that trying to convert her into an eco-warrior might not be successful, but I did try!
Seriously though, I hope more supermarkets follow M&S’s lead. If there was a price to pay for the bags I’m sure that it would encourage more people to reuse them or buy the ‘bags for life’ that I think most supermarkets have . Something has to be done to stop the landfills being filled with the reported 13 million plastic bags a year that we currently use.
Will’s - have you made yours?
25 February 2008
As a newly married couple we found ourselves discussing our deaths! It came off the back of a comment that was made to me after we announced that we were married. It was regarding the inheritance of our property in the event of one of us dying; I’m sure we’d just announced our marriage not a terminal illness… I thought it was a strange thing to say, but I guess that says more about the motives of the person making the comment than my lack of interest in such things. I have no expectation to inherit anything from my relatives. It’s their money, property, possessions etc and I feel I’m no more entitled to them in the event of their death as I am whilst they are living. It seems that some people do have their eye on the potential windfall resulting from a loved one’s passing away. Again I feel that says a lot about those people. ‘Greed’ is the word that spring to mind followed by ‘crass ‘and ‘vulgarity’, but I won’t mince my words on how I feel! Read more
The Internet is a fascinating place
22 February 2008
As a regular user of the World Wide Web I am a big fan. I use it to shop and indeed our livings are made from it to some extent. The information available never ceases to amaze me. When our PS3 had a problem the answer was there in seconds. Likewise when my son’s i-Pod froze I found out how to unfreeze it. Truthfully, I’m not sure how we ever coped before. When in France we decided to visit the Eiffel Tower and we used Jim’s Blackberry to find out how to reach it via the Metro. The world is there via our computers (or Blackberry’s!). Read more
