and so I’m doing not a lot at the moment :)

It’s Friday and I’m not at work! Can we have a 4 day weekend every month please?!

Spent the day with Jon. Didn’t do a lot, but he enjoyed seeing the diggers at the dump and playing with the football in the sunshine all afternoon. It’s a shame that today was the last of the good weather (until Tuesday of course!).

Got home today from the week at work to a pile of paperwork. Going through the paperwork showed that we have moved on a few steps in our efforts to move house.

We’ve had our application for a mortgage approved by Natwest! Yay! For some reason (“Drawdown of loan fees”) we have had ?30 deducted from the amount we have borrowed. Will have to ask the solicitor what that means!

Also, the paperwork for the purchase of the new house has turned up. I have now read all of it; not a particularly interesting task. It all seems fine except for the details of what’s included in the sales which clearly wasn’t updated based on our offer which specified that we wanted the curtains too. Presumably, that’s an oversight and we’ll get it sorted on Tuesday.

As I said, we are now a step or two closer to moving :)

Came across this in The Register:

“In the UK nine out of ten children own a mobile phone, and spend £100,000 a day solely on text messaging.”

Wow! That’a lot of text messages at 10pence per message!

Phoenix is no more; welcome Firebird!

Picked up my “new” car on Saturday. Of course, I mean, “new to me” rather than “new” – it’s an N-Reg Rover 200SD and is very nice. It’s a diesel so is much more efficient than my old Peugeot 405!

However… (and there’s always a however!) I’ve just got in it to go home and it hasn’t started :( The garage was supposed to do a service before I collected it – hmmm… will have words tomorrow I think!

Waiting for the RAC as I write this….

Update: The RAC man has come along and poked around in the engine bay… then the car started :) Apparently the immobiliser had turned itself on and the little light on the dashboard that indicates this wasn’t lit… a bit more poking and that now works too :)

Today Jon and I went to a Pub near Newbury for a family reunion with my dad’s side. Georgina didn’t come along as she was ill :( We all had a meal together in the pub and caught up with what’s going on in each others’ lives; a typical get together I think.

Jon took along his Lofty crane (a Bob The Builder character) and enjoyed himself, though I think he missed his mummy a bit.

Georgina made a very nice banana cake this afternoon. For tea, Jon, myself and Georgina have managed to polish off half of it already!

All you could hear from Jon was “mmm” and “yum”… that’s enough of a recommendation for anyone!

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf is known as “Comical Ali” in our office and we admire his PR ability. Someone else likes him more that we do!

The Register had this to say:

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, we salute you. And, were it not for the fact that you are (were?) the wise-cracking face of a brutal and murderous regime, we’d like to think that you’d always find a home with the British Labour Party. You’re a lot more entertaining than Clare Short, that’s for certain.

Update: Try http://64.39.15.171 until www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com starts working…

Georgina phoned me early this morning feeling very ill, so I went home this morning to look after her and Jon. Well, actually to look after Jon whilst she slept! Didn’t get a lot done work wise today as a result, though did fix a fairly fundermental bug on one ordering page.

She seems a little better this evening which is good :)