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 . 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!
Oops, it’s Father’s Day on Sunday
15 June 2007
I was just watching ITV’s This Morning where there was an item on gifts for Father’s Day and realised that I’ve completely forgotten … until now. They did however have some fantastic ideas for gifts, which although it might be a little late for Sunday are worth noting for future
reference. I’ve listed some of their ideas and some of my own.
Digital photo frame.
It is a simple, but totally brilliant idea. You simply place the memory card from your camera in to one of these and it can display one picture or a slideshow. Argos
Projector keyboard (£149).
I have to say I wasn’t totally convinced by this, but the general idea is that a keyboard is projected onto any flat surface, which you then use to type and it sends the information to your PDA or smart phone using Bluetooth.
Cordless headphones.
Not featured on the programme, but Jim has some of these that he bought himself (why do they buy themselves what would be a great present?). This pair costs £69.99. They also have these for £49.99. Jim can listen to his music almost anywhere in the house and not bother us with his taste in music! Look here in our shop for more headphones.
Experiences
There are many experiences to choose from such as Monster truck driving (£129). They also have go-karting (£49), Spy Academy (£99), and Ghost hunting (£99).
Alternatively, there’s tank driving experience (£175), parachuting (£249), stock car racing (£169) or flying lessons (£95). Look here for more experiences, not just for the man in your life, but for the ladies and the children.
I also found this flying alarm clock (£18.94). I know it’d be great fro Jim or Son Number Two as neither of them are good at getting up. You can’t stop the alarm unless you get up to replace the propeller, but I have visions of my son replacing the propeller and crawling back to bed!
There’s also a USB turntable for playing all of those records (£119). For cricket fans there’s Plug and Play cricket (£39.95). Again from This Morning there’s the T-Qualizer Music Tee (£19.95), which is a funky t-shirt that reacts to sound. Perfect if your dad likes to go clubbing!
If there’s nothing there to whet your appetite take a look in our shop for more gift ideas.
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.
