happy new year!!

in engalnd we ahve 6 minutes to go until we enter te splenidid year of 2007. we are listeninINXS and i am a littlw tiddly. we are watichign a lock that is acccurateb to 1 secnd with every 290 years. i am pissed which is unsusual and causing many speling mistakes.

earlkier tis year jen sentmea text to wish me a happy 2007 from the beginning od next year. we have al dicisded tat it feels better to be moving into 2008 but alas wea are oving into 2008. i feel i9 sould apoliogise to andrew jone for y drunkeness. i don't know why. carla sufggests we should move towards morw fun in 2008 but i don't thinki have more fun whe i'm drunk - instead i just spell more badly!!
rach aims for more pointy bits and andy is [utrting 'a blast from the past' on the stearoe. rbital?!! orbital when i conscentrate. carla is taking a thigh as a pillow and rach is trying not to fart.

barnaby has just had the same text from 2 very un-related people. it reads like this - always remenber - lofe is short - forgive quickly, quiss quickly, love truly, love truly and benevre forget new year's eve (please note my keypad is having trouble with the c key.)

rah says we are all saddos with our mobiles.

maybe this is the most realistic expression of a new year's blog ever.

andy ad carla are reflecctung on the orbital live track.

HAPPYNEW YEAR..

Tolstoy said...

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish him to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back."

reflect on this at your peril. it is humbling.

also, just wanted to mention how exciting it is to see poeple reading our blog from places that we would never have expected. i wonder if i know you or maybe you just happened upon us and won't come back again, or alternatively, happened upon us and come back regularly!

here is a picture of the blue Christmas tree outside Sheffield train station. it is the most Christmassy photo i took i think!

some pictures

me and jos

robin's snowman for andy to have in the office!

robin dressed up as a mexican (all his own doing!)

andy and me

it had to be done.

jos' first haircut. a sad event because he has wonderful hair but it was actually interlinking with his eyelashes. i only layered the top so we are now heading for mullet territory but andrew jones wears a mullet and he's one of the coolest chaps around.

hilarious!

i always thought clothes were put on manequins to make them look desirable - as if they would look really great on you. check out this dress at topshop to see how sometimes it can go really wrong!!

2 things... and a ps.

1. the following quote from the Design Council Report 1998 @more for less' has challenged me and my thoughts and actions:

"80-90% of the total lifecycle costs of any product (environmental and economic) are determined by the product design before production even begins. "

2. i am a human being and i have needs - one of these needs is words of affirmation, particularly in the form of blog comments. when you comment i get a zingy sparkle all through me. it makes me feel loved and special and thought of. when you don't comment i just think that no one reads my stuff anymore.

ps. at present i do not recommend the ammazing change website for anything other than information. it's got great info about slavery and your response to it, but the community side of it is not happening - i can't even post on the forum for goodness sake.

treesforlife

"*** SHIPMENT CONFIRMATION - PLEASE PRINT AND RETAIN FOR YOUR RECORDS ***

Hello andy marshall,

Thank you for placing an order with Books For Trees! For each book ordered we donate 5p to Trees for Life. This enables Trees for Life to replant the Caledonian forest in Scotland with native trees. For more information, please check out www.treesforlife.org.uk or email us.

Your Amazon UK order, number 736-7603764-1686545, has been processed and shipped via standard mail on 12/6/2006."

a slavery update

if you go to this link then you can find out all about William Wilberforce who was a key player in the abolition of slavery 200 years ago. Quite an amazing person, I think you'll agree!

sleepless nights...

spent the past two nights finding it hard to get to sleep having had loads and loads of ideas going thru my head about a new miniature based wargame that i've come up with.
the usual advice is write everything down, get it out of you, but i seem to find i just get more and more ideas as i write.
add in a jos who likes to wake up for an hours adventuring at 3am and its not going well!

knackeroodled like a poodle

so tired that i am going to bed - at 9.10 pm or thereabouts. jos teething and also snuffly and coughing so not getting much sleep. earlier i posted a link to a picture but it didn't work. instead, check out the whole site called postsecret and enjoy in a weird kind of way! thank you to jen for reminding me of that site - i'm not sure why i filed it away for so long!