Rob's Ego Trip!

It seems that the NHS will have to stop using premium rate phone numbers from April. Can someone explain to me why they were ever allowed to use them in the first place? Making a national rate call to your local doctor is ridiculous.

Scottish MSPs have some sense and have rejected the ID card scheme in a debate. It's a bit pointless as Labour will over-rule them anyway.

I especially liked this Patrick Harvie quote about the idea that law abiding citizens have nothing to fear:

"Would you feel the same if the state wanted to search your home? After all if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear."

We need a new HP 78 colour cartridge for our printer...

Again, Chris Witter sums it up very well.

I've just added the five most recent pictures to the photo album main page. Someday I'll do a proper date ordering of all the pictures to complement the per-category viewing we have now.

It seems that whenever I talk about myself, it's always about how ill I am. Today is no exception. Yesterday Ben sicked up both his main meals which was a bit of a worry. He did however sleep ok last night. I was not so lucky. Georgina went out for the evening to watch DVDs with some friends. I thought I'd take the chance to catch up on some sleep and went to bed about 9ish. Fell asleep around 10:30 but was awake again at just gone midnight feeling queasy. The rest of the night was spent oscillating between the bathroom and the bed and I think I got about 2 hours sleep :(

Today really hasn't been a good day either as we're both really tired and haven't given the kids much attention. Georgina slept all morning and I slept all afternoon.

I'm putting up photos of the extension work on my Fotothing.

The tree at the end of the garden has gone! One more task on the todo list sorted. Our garden seems much bigger (until the extension goes up!) and there's more light.

The Building Inspector came around today to look at the footings. He's decided that we have to dig down another half a metre because of the tree at the end of the garden. The weird thing is that the tree is coming out, but we still have to do the additional digging. Not a lot we can do... the Building Inspector is God when it comes to getting a certificate, so what he says goes!

The footings were dug today. The builder said he'd be here at 8am, and sure enough builders arrived at 8am. The boss man was late - about 8:10, but who cares?! Another skip arrived to join the one that arrived yesterday. The 5 men then proceded to pick up our shed and carry it down to the end of the garden! Paving slabs were then lifted and a digger was brought in to dig holes. They carried on working even thoug hit rained on and off all day and were done by 3:30.

All in all, a good start. Let's hope it continues in this vein!

It's really going to happen! Neil the Builder was around today to pick up the kitchen plans so he can quote on fitting. We also organised for skips to arrive on Friday and a digger on Saturday. The way we are going, we might have a usable extension by the end of April!