Category: self
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Crayons Can Melt on Us for All I Care
I’ve just wasted, 10 seconds of your life Matthew Thiessen Lies, the track is 12 seconds long 🙄
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Cobra Paw
Played this game at Ian’s the other week. It’s literally a game of quick matching. You have tiles on the table, each file has two ends with a glyph/character on it in colour. You roll a dice and the players need to be the first to grab the tile one handed. Someone already has the…
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Romans cleaning teeth
The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine. Apparently it works. Please don’t do it, though. small talk “knowledge” Sometimes that small talk app turns up the weirdest facts – I thought it was their version of shampoo 🙈 Download it from the iOS app store
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Switching the kids rooms
Today was spent swapping the kids rooms. The Kid had the bigger room with built in wardrobes across one wall and a small desk alcove. Bamm-Bamm had a slightly smaller room but no built in storage. We flipped them. We’d been thinking about swapping for a bit, the games cupboard was getting a mess and…
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Bohemian Rhapsody
Finally watched the Bohemian Rhapsody film via Virgin Media Store. That itself was fairly painless. I’ve seen a bunch of reactions to the movie, mainly positive on the content and some negative on the editing aspect. I didn’t have any problem with the editing but that’s just me. As for the story line, I really…
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Another Mapominoes game
Chris was over for dinner so this normally means one thing. Mapominoes. We did all ours sets. Europe, The Americas, Asia & Australasia, and Africa. A wild Iceland appears Chris won, even unexpectedly for him. I still think starting with a third of four combined packs we need more than 5 Transit cards each. And…
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Lava song
Most nights, small person wants a song. We have the Lava Song from Lava, which I think is the short which came with Moana, or Over The Rainbow by Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo There are times when I wish we were doing something on my phone and I could record B’s reaction or what he’s doing.…
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Strawberry Bank
I posted this yesterday on Twitter but I’m uploading here with some context. Although it isn’t filled with as many lanes and back alleys as Glasgow or Edinburgh, there are some really old parts of Dundee like this. Strawberry Bank is a lane which passes from Perth Road to Magdalen Yard Road (Windsor Place). It…
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Trimming the hedge
At the weekend, my neighbour came round to say he’d cut it as he has the tools and mentioned it before. I’ve posted the odd photo of it before but suffice to say the hedge needed a good trim. Keith went to it like a man possessed and I started piling the branches. This is…
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