2009 Top 10: Gran came to visit

2009 Top 10: Gran came to visit

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My Gran and her sister Margaret came and stayed with my Mum for a couple of weeks at the end of September/start of October. First, some explanation - it seems nothing is ever straightforward! My Gran, Jean, is actually my Dad's adopted mother, and her sister Margaret is my Dad's biological mother. Because Margaret wasn't married when she had my…
New phone, uh, yeah

New phone, uh, yeah

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My new phone arrived today! Jane bought it for me for my Birthday (December 8th, Birthday fans), but I'm allowed to use it now as my old phone (which I've had for about 5 years now) turns itself off at random intervals. Obligatory old and new model comparison shots: A shade taller than the old one, but much thinner and…
All about Tigger

All about Tigger

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Also known as:Tig Tig-tig Tiggy Tiggidy-tig-tig Fatty Toothless Toothless wonder Fang Oi Shh Shut up Tiggerus Plonkerus MaximusBless. Most of those names were given to him by Jane's family, before I knew him, so don't blame me for their apparent cruelty. Tigger then. He's about twice as old as our two, but instead of calling him old, I like to…
All about Gizmo

All about Gizmo

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Also known as:Giz Giz-giz Gizzy Gizbo Gizzy-bo Gibby Gibbles Gibito Gib-gib Jib-jib Boy-boy Orange L'orange Skinny Runt Skinny runt Boney Wuss Ginger bitsHe has a lot more nicknames than the other two! So, what can I tell you about our orange boy? He's quite a large cat, not fat, just kind of stocky, long limbed and athletic looking. He has…
All about Smudge

All about Smudge

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Also known as:Smudgey Smudgit Smudgkins Smudgey-moo Fluff Fluffy Fluffit Fluff-bag Fluff-bum Madam Moo-moo Moo-moo-kins Princess Princess Moo-mooI don't have a favourite when it comes to our cats, but if I did, it would be my Moo-moo. It was love at first sight, I think, mutually. When we went to collect Gizmo we knew we were only getting one of them,…
Pretty fireworks

Pretty fireworks

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Claire got some fireworks for the kids (read as: Claire got some fireworks for Claire) and while I'm not usually a big fan of the noisy, cat scaring things, I thought I'd take some photographs of them. Ethan was delighted, though he definitely preferred the whoosh bangs to the sparkly pretties. Lewis was enthralled for a while, but you know…
My memories of Phantasy Star Online

My memories of Phantasy Star Online

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Back in the day, you couldn't beat a bit of PSO on the Dreamcast. I remember begging my Mum to let me play it online, she agreed eventually but I had to pay the bill every month. I had many characters throughout my adventures with DC PSO, but the three pictured below are the three that I enjoyed most. You…
Halo 2 screenshots

Halo 2 screenshots

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That piece the other day reminded me of all those screenshots we took of Halo 2 years ago. They used to be up on the gallery that was integrated into our old phpBB2 forum, but I have them saved and would like to try and reproduce them here for you now. Bear in mind, with no screenshot feature in Halo 2 these were photographs of a TV screen taken by Orca.

CAUTION! There are 37 thumbnails!