babycake is one

It's Babycake's first birthday today. Somehow we have managed to get through this year with only a beautiful, healthy, baby boy to show for all the effort. The house is still a mess, we are both knackered, but we have grown a lovely child who is full of joy. I just wish he wouldn't wake me in the morning by trying to clamber over my sleeping body to get to the chest of drawers. For some reason he enjoys opening and closing the drawers, but this enjoyment is always short lived because he always ends up in tears after trapping is fingers in the drawer.

We are planning on celebrating the day by having over some friends and family for blinis, cake and fine wine.

Got to go. Babycake is demanding another spoonful of porridge.

nastier

I had no idea about the poppadom comment fom Jade, so I'll retract the bit I said about no overt racism, because there clearly was. However, Shilpa, with her usual grace and dignity has chosen to forgive, but I suspect she'll not forget. This really is the last thing I'll ever write about Big Brother, life is too short to think any more on this.

nasty girl

I have been following Celebrity Big Brother with interest and like many have been appalled by the bullying of Shilpa. While I haven't seen or heard anything overtly racist (I haven't seen all the footage, so may have missed something) I am surprised that none of the discussions in the media reflect that Jade is black, or even begin to consider the power relations in this dynamic.

My biggest surprise was Jermaine Jackson. I assumed he's be a self obsessed nutter, but apart from letting slip that he called one of his sons 'Jermajesty', he seems a very decent chap and one of the few who is able to give Shilpa good advice. Jermaine, you have redeemed the Jackson name for me and that was no easy task.

iphone

Of course I want one of those.

where art thou

I remember the McMuffins. Such darling, lovely, gay young things who used to write witty little posts. I hear they had a baby.

whizzing by

Can it really be a year since Babycake's due day? Yes, it can.

Also, congratulations to Gypsy Tart and Rock Cake, who moved into their new house tonight. We shall really miss them being 5 seconds from our front door, but as they've only moved a 5 minute walk away, it's not so bad.

first must have gadget of the year

Apple have just announce Apple TV. I want one. Mrs McMuffin kindly suggested that I could have it for Christmas.

battlestar galactica

We watched the first episode of the third series last night. Amazing. Easily the best thing on TV at the moment, and possibly a contender for best TV drama ever. I wonder if I will feel the same way in 20 years? I seem to remember that Logan's Run was pretty good too.

babycake speaks

He lifted his head from a deep sleep and said, "Oh dear." He then collapsed back into sleep. He missed all the excitement.

flash, fzzz, blue smoke

I'm sure that external hard drives are not supposed to flash, fzzz and issue forth blue smoke, but mine just did. I have been running it for about three years. I can't make up my mind if that is good value for money or not. I know that I have run hard drives for a lot longer than that before anything went wrong. I guess thems the odds though. Thank god that I have finally woken up to the need to keep my data backed up. I have been running all my music and photos on one disc and making a direct copy to another disc every night, so all is not lost. In fact, nothing has been lost...except for the disc, of course. I'm not even sure that there is anything wrong with the disc, it seems to be more to do with the firewire sockets, but who knows for sure, and I guess if I can't get access to the disc then it might as well be so much scrap metal and plastic. The only problem I have now, of course, is that I have nothing to back-up to. I had sworn off buying any new technology for a few months, but I think I am going to have to buy a new disc. Fortunately they can be picked up relatively cheaply. I'm off eBaying for a new disc. I might get one of those fancy smancy NAS discs. That would certainly make life easier now that we are a two Mac family.