John Luke and his friend Cailan were on the telly today.
They were on the Cbeebies program, the Green Balloon Club. The clip showed them handling a buzzard and asking the birds handler some questions.
Fame has gone to their heads already, Cailan is charging £2 for an autograph and John Luke is waiting by the phone [...]
Abigail keeps asking Ruth, John Luke and I how old we are.
She thinks forty six (my age) is very old, and tells us that she is “Threety forty years old”. Not just three.
Not only is she creative with numbers, but spelling as well.
We are trying to explain spelling phonetically e.g. buh-ih-ruh-duh for bird. But whichever [...]
A couple of months ago John Luke took part in a CBeebies program called The Green Balloon club.
He really enjoyed the filming process and says he could do it as a career, given the chance. The only bad thing was “Having to do things over and over again”.
The Green Balloon Club team went around Arran [...]
There are a couple of photo editing programs that I use, but the one I like best is Gimp.
It is not the easiest software to get to grips with but as its free you can’t grumble. I use Gimp to touch up my photos and remove things I don’t want (lampposts etc).
These examples, although not [...]
I have been helping out with the conversion of the barn behind our house. The barn will (eventually) be where Ruth’s mum and dad live. My job is to plasterboard and tape, but in order for me to fix my boards up I have also been putting in a lot of woodwork.
This picture shows the [...]
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