Oh, of course that’s what KFS stands for (plus other abbreviations)!
20 June 2007
Son Number One is going on his first camp with his school soon. Now it’s taken me a while to work out what CCF stood for. It’s Combined Cadet Force, which is the Army, Navy and RAF (Royal Air Force) sections for school children. My son joined this year and absolutely loves it. He was learning how to shoot this weekend, which included safe handling of guns and how to take apart and put back together a gun. It was followed by a test on the second day, which they needed to pass to be allowed to attend the shooting range on camp.
I’m not a fan of guns by any stretch of the imagination and I’m sure I’d be too frightened to attempt this excercise, but in these controlled circumstances I’m OK about my son having a go. It’s hardly shooting games, but a very well organised operation.
All that aside, I’m forever baffled by the jargon used and by the abbreviations. I’ve already said I took many weeks trying to guess what CCF stood for and ended up doing the sensible thing and I JGI (just googled it!). Today another letter appears for SNO (Son Number One) to attend a weekend Butt Marking. Not only was I confused as to what this means the letter said he needed, amongst other things, KFS. What on earth was KFS? SNO didn’t know so instead of wasting any more time I JGI to find it means knife, fork and spoon. Well, why not say that? At least now I can purchase said items for camp along with a Poncho roll and webbing. Look here if like me you had no idea what this was! It’s another language to me!
The perfect alarm clock?
19 June 2007
I think I’m just plain lazy really, but I find it a bit of a pain having to change the time on the alarm clock. I am up at the same time during the week, but at weekends, especially during the football season we’re up at different times on both days according to the kick off time. As I’ve said it’s a lazy streak, but it’s such a bore on Sunday night having to remember to change the alarm or we’ll be very late for school. That done I have to go through 11 hours to get back to my weekday alarm time. It’s all very complicated!
On my search for father’s day gifts I found this alarm clock, the NeverLate Alarm Clock. It’s just what I’d been looking for. It simply allows you to set the alarm for each day of the week. I should imagine for shift workers this is ideal or for those with a varied schedule as well as people like me. I’m putting it on my list of things I’d like as it’s my birthday soon and I’m always asked for gift ideas. This is most definitely one. Hint, hint!
Not another football shirt!
18 June 2007
Jim and Son Number Two are both Gooners I’m afraid! Having purchased from Arsenal in the past I often get sent items to buy. Today I had the latest Arsenal Away shirt information. Of course it had to be had! This time Son Number Two has chosen Theo Walcott as his icon. Henry was ditched last year for Fabregas and now it seems that poor old Cesc is being given the heave-ho! So his new shirt is on order with delivery from 5th July
Even I have to admit it’s a nice looking shirt and one I know will be worn many times. I just wish I could see my youngest in something other than a football shirt on the odd occasion because he does scrub up quite well!
It most certainly never rains, but it pours 2 …..
14 June 2007
….. AKA the Generation Xcess saga.
Jane’s been busy since we got back from holiday sorting out her “prang”. I had best not offer any further comment as apparently it was my fault because rather than reverse the car into the drive the previous day I had driven it in forwards. That was why she was reversing out rather than driving straight out. We have sufficient space to turn the car round in our drive (which is what I normally do) but that is another story.
My return from holiday has been taken up with some urgent development work on the local rugby club’s web site - the site’s web statistics went ballistic, as did the Visitor’s Book, following the screening of an episode of ITV2’s Generation Xcess while we were away. The programme in question featured members of the club’s 1st XV out on the town on a Saturday night. As the title suggests there were a number of excesses depicted and some have attracted very severe levels of criticism including an RFU investigation. We had to suspend the Visitor’s Book but the maxim “there is no such thing as bad publicity” is evidently true as the web stats showed a threefold increase in the level of unique visitors. Unfortunately a significant proportion of those visitors have evidently been attracted to the web site for entirely the wrong reasons.
This episode has caused me a little bit of unexpected work but I really feel sorry for the new chairman of the club. He had nothing to do with the club’s decision making process that apparently sanctioned the participation in the programme but having been elected as the new chairman only a few weeks ago he has found himself in the middle of a major storm and it looks like it is going to rumble on for quite a while.
It most certainly never rains, but it pours…
13 June 2007
and that’s exactly what it’s done here today. I honestly don’t mind the odd shower or two and have been known to purposely go out in the rain. Today I really needed to go to our local Tesco as the cupboards are bare, but I’ve had to wait on phone calls all day.
On Monday my neighbour and I had a little ‘prang’ as I was reversing out of my drive and he was coming forwards from his drive. It was impossible for either of us to see the other and it was just bad luck. Noone was hurt, but both cars need repairing. The damage looks nothing, but the cost will run into thousands it seems. Consequently, the last couple of days has been nothing but phone calls to insurance companies, car replacement companies, car repair centres and even a call from a solicitor. The company said it was ‘routine’ to see if there was a claim, which seems to be only for uninsured losses such as our excess and a car replacement.
This is what has kept me at home today when I should’ve been shopping. However I remembered that on my last visit to Tesco I was given a voucher for free delivery from them, so it looks like I may be taking them up on that offer.
Tomorrow the car goes in for repair and hopefully will be back with us by next week. Thanks to the insurance company we get a similar car, which is good as we have a football tournament to go to this weekend and a family party next week, so we need the space especially for the dog!
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