katielou

August 2005



neapolitan icecream

Wednesday, 31 August 2005 7:48 P GMT+01
Two portions vanilla, two portions strawberry (oops, some of me doesn't get out much at home) and the rest chocolate. OK, not chocolate, but coming on a nice honey... Aiming for caramel. Rach on the other hand is chocolate. Or maybe not, maybe um, ci
Category: play

oops, sorry!

Monday, 29 August 2005 9:31 A GMT+01
Damn, set off without charging my phone. Must have been the didn't-go-to-bed-Friday night that screwed up my usual travel procedures. Anyway, normal service to be resumed today. (There's an internet connection in the hotel, but honest, I've not looke

holiday photos

Friday, 26 August 2005 9:53 A GMT+01
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Category: play

aaaaaaaaaahhhhh... can't wait. let us at that beach :-)

Friday, 26 August 2005 12:56 A GMT+01
10 day forecast for Malaga
Category: play

dance practice

Friday, 26 August 2005 12:24 A GMT+01
Christine - have found some motivational movies for you to practise to! Hint, the only one in 3 time is the viennese waltz (girl in blue dress) which is WAY TOO FAST to do your waltz to. Honest. (You could try this one though) The white dress one is
Category: play

latte art...

Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:45 P GMT+01
boy, and I thought I spent too long in Sams already.... just wait till I get back, I have some serious creativity to catch up on... or maybe I just need the caffeine too much. (My dog attempt would surely have freckles from the sugar!)
Category: play

fone to flickr holiday pics

Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:52 A GMT+01
well, dunno if this will work quite. I've been trying to send MMS to flickr (can't email off my phone) to the email address you can upload by. It sort of worked - I can see the photo I sent. I have also now seen you can by default set it to tag all p
Category: play

Blogs in education

Tuesday, 23 August 2005 11:11 A GMT+01
From John Lemasney, the State of Instructional Technology, which has a post about e-learning dialogue with a link to work being carried out on best practice & instructional blogging on campus by Stuart Glogoff at Arizona. (for those further in
Category: work blogging

much ado

Sunday, 21 August 2005 11:32 P GMT+01
Very enjoyable evening, spent at Brancepeth Castle watching Heartbreak Productions offer a version of Much Ado about Nothing meets the end of WWII. Tenuous re-situation of Shakespeare, though it gave potential for good dollops of wartime music, and a
Category: play culture

basingstoke and buddhism

Sunday, 21 August 2005 2:37 P GMT+01
Well, here we are at the end of the week, and I've not had to drive to Scotland! Jonty has gone on a retreat to a Tibetan monastery in Scotland, which looks beautiful. He's been looking forward to it for ages, but in the pub last Friday he was expres
Category: general

they grow how fast?

Sunday, 21 August 2005 12:50 A GMT+01
Beat off the frustration of not beating West Ham by making it back for bath time with my godchildren while they're here for the last bit of the school holiday. Can barely remember when they were as small as on the left two photos - but on the other h
Category: general

wonderful moment

Sunday, 21 August 2005 12:00 A GMT+01
I'll provide a summary translation when I've got a moment, but for those who can, today's uplifting feel good moment of the day - the joy of a chlid, the importance of the simple things in life, how good it feels to be able to make people happy, and
Category: general

dresses?

Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:14 A GMT+01
It seems a while since we had any dresses entries, wouldn't you agree... Perhaps it just means I've not bankrupted myself recently?! Not with anything you'd want to know about, anyway. But then again, I am going on holiday soon, so obviously I needed
Category: dresses

Text Aloud

Friday, 19 August 2005 8:58 P GMT+01
Oh, fabulous new toy! I seem to have had the same conversation with three people recently, now I have an mp3 player and have got into podcasting, that it would be a really great idea if publishers provided mp3s of journal articles being read (prefera
Category: work

more blogs :-)

Thursday, 18 August 2005 2:04 P GMT+01
Cool. More of the men in my life starting blogs. Heehee. What fun.
Category: play

Ikea Catalogue 2006

Wednesday, 17 August 2005 6:09 P GMT+01
OK, so I know I'm sad. You don't need to tell me. My new IKEA catalogue was waiting for me when I got home tonight, so that sorts my evening out for me. Yippee! (You do however need to tell me if you have a 1997 version, because for some reason both
Category: play

I should learn Swedish!

Tuesday, 16 August 2005 6:21 P GMT+01
Well whaddya know... I took another of those blogthings tests, about languages, and look what it said... (bit late, but, you know, good to know I made a right choice somewhere!!)You Should Learn SwedishFantastisk! You're laid back about learning a la
Category: play

looking into blogs

Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:46 A GMT+01
Obviously not today, because it's the start of the football season (woohoo) and I'm off to the pub shortly to watch us get pulverised by Arsenal (nothing like positive thinking, eh?!), but started browsing a couple ofthe links I found last night, and
Category: work blogging

UK edu-blogs

Saturday, 13 August 2005 11:03 P GMT+01
Corrected myself in the last posting - went to look up the details for for the ALT Edublog conference. It's edublog that is the 17th, and Bloggforum the 19th (note to Stefan: you betcha, if I can swing it!). Did a little lookup on the speaker for edu
Category: work blogging

Go Ogle Earth

Saturday, 13 August 2005 11:14 A GMT+01
I was just reading up on some blogs (the builders next door got me up at 7.32am, so am sitting here with some coffee until I can face the gym, and I found a couple of new things. Firstly, I must check my diary at work as the next bloggforum in Stockh
Category: general blogging

new podcast - after the lunch

Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:33 P GMT+01
...except I shouldn't have to tell you that, because those of you with my podcast loaded into your iPodder, will by now have my test of the new VoIP phone giving you one a quick poem from one of my faves, Wendy Cope. It isn't here, though some of tho
Category: play

VoIP - bit nerdy

Thursday, 11 August 2005 9:43 P GMT+01
Well, my USB phone arrived for Skype today. It works (I think - not seeing anything on screen, but I can use it for calls) and already I've confirmed that once you've got used to the call centre look, it's irritating not to have your hands free. But
Category: work

nostalgia trip to Hull

Sunday, 7 August 2005 9:38 P GMT+01
Weather ok, non-smoking venues nil, rowdy idiots in room behind us throwing up loudly at 8 am lots, service at hotel could do better, gym used, pool also used - very nice, jacuzzi, very very nice, sauna very hot....Well, an interesting weekend. Some
Category: play

we're not afraid part 3

Sunday, 7 August 2005 8:51 P GMT+01
Powerful documentary just shown on BBC4 about the phenomenal website We're Not Afraid, which I've linked to before and found some fabulous pictures. There was also talk of another site, where muslims - and everyone else -  can comment on the events
Category: general

new baby

Thursday, 4 August 2005 8:58 P GMT+01
Congratulations to Sally and Mike in Kongsberg (Norway), finally getting their extra addition to the family, a new sister for Ally and Izzy, Lian. (great birthday present for Sal - Happy Birthday, babe!)