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[If you’ve just tuned in to this exciting serial, this is about my time in Switzerland, written age 11 - hence the poor spelling which has vastly improved since then - after never having been there, Switzerland that is]
Just when you thought (hoped) there couldn’t possibly be any more instalments…
Day 12
I went exploring today and […]

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Sing a Song for Us Tonight is a segment where people choose a song that is special to them and explain why. Today’s guest is Matilda. She’s chosen The Police and that earbug De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da which will now be stuck in my head for the rest of the day, […]

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Right so I bought 150 empty matchboxes (without the bit on the side that lights a match) for a craft activity for LittleSquib’s party
MrSquib: You can’t call them matchboxes
Me: Don’t be silly, of course I’m going to call them matchboxes
MrSquib: Don’t you think you should call them small boxes?
Me: No, I think I should call […]

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I got a phone call from Bigpond the other day
Bigpond woman: Hi, we’re just calling people on our old defunct Internet plans and asking them if they would like to upgrade at no extra cost. At the moment your old plan gives you a maximum monthly download of 10GB at 512 Kb speed but our […]

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Amazon has come up with these suggestions, based on my previous purchases:

The Swordman’s Companion: A Manual for Training With the Medieval Longsword
by Guy Windsor (May, 2004)

Managing Ignatius: The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs and Life in New Orleans
by Jerry Strahan (Feb 16, 1999)

Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
by […]

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[If you’ve just tuned in to this exciting serial, this is about my time in Switzerland, written age 11 - hence the poor spelling which has vastly improved since then - after never having been there, Switzerland that is]
I’ve had a special request from Warthog for part four in this series. The poor man is […]

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BigSquib is a bit of an Ancient Egypt fanatic so the other night she was telling us about a female pharaoh, during dinner
BigSquib: She was called Hatshepsut-
MrSquib: Bless you!
Squib: hahaha good one!
BigSquib: [rolls eyes and continues} as I was saying the person who came after Hatshepsut-
MrSquib: Bless you!
Squib: hahahahahahahahaha [it’s even funnier the second time]
BigSquib: […]

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Having just read a book about two Pilkingtons, I’ve moved onto a book by a Pilkington. If you’ve ever wondered about meteorite jelly, keranography, or where your second brain might be, this is a very cool little book to dip into: Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science’s Outer Edge by Mark Pilkington

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Yesterday MrSquib made his acting debut. Plucked from the audience at a puppet show, he was given the role of grass. The part required a lot of technical swaying and by all accounts MrSquib had a natural flair for the part
It’s early days yet but we are hoping he might get to be an extra […]

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[If you’ve just tuned in to this exciting serial, this is about my time in Switzerland, written age 11 - hence the poor spelling which has vastly improved since then - after never having been there, Switzerland that is]

Day 2
At 8.00 a man came around ringing a bell and carring a delisious tray with steaming […]

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