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Next Monday is the start of my Atkins diet!  This seems to really polarise people – they either love it (usually men that have done it) or hate it and think it’s dangerous (Vic ) I know quite a few people that have done it and they all swear by it….. we’ll see.

Also the bloody cat went missing for a couple of hours today (we found her about 2 minutes ago) About a week ago we had two cat doors put in (external garage door and in the door between the hall and garage) and we’ve slowly allowed her more and more freedom as the week has gone on.  The last few days she’s had free reign of the house and grounds (and has woken us up at about 05:00 the last few days by rubbing noses and purring ) Anyway, we looked high and low for her tonight, calling for her and making fools of ourselves, only to find her curled up right in the corner of the living room under the couch!  She usually comes when you call her but she must have just been too tired. The joys of pet ownership

Anyone got a parent that goes crazy when they do something wrong?  That’s nothing compared to this guy!

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For the next week I will post at least once a day – even if it’s just an interesting link I’ve found.  I need to make a commitment to this blog for at least a short time……..

I got an email the other day stating that the software I use to run this weblog, pmachine has been discontinued.  I have become increasingly frustrated with it over the last few months and have been looking around for a replacement blog/CMS tool to replace it anyway.

Luckily the same people that bought out pmachine brought out a brand new product about a year ago called expressionengine which was built from the ground up and is much more powerful.  Unfortunately it costs (at a minimum) 75 USD……. On the other hand I paid 45 for pmachine and have got loads of use out of it.  Another plus is that ee has a great pmachine import script so the 670 odd entries can be moved.  I have a test site running here. One of the things I like is captchas with allow you to take steps towards eliminating blog spam (grrrr) without requiring registration.  Have a look at the bottom of the comments on the test site and you’ll see what I mean.

Anyway, it’s a 14 day trial so we’ll see how it goes

Man, what a weekend!  We had Max’s birthday party and it was manic We were up at 06:00 amd I think the first time I really got to sit down was 21:30. 

Max got totally spoiled on the present front but the kids seemed to have fun with all the food, toys and new built-in sandpit

Thanks to all those that sent or brought gifts and to those that left messages on this blog.  Max was totally overwhelmed but played with everything and continues to bounce back and forth between his new stuff.

Here’s the wee man about half way through his “meal”