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My garndener just told me this joke. I couldn't resist posting it.
“Hi. This is Sarah Palin. Is Senator Lieberman in?”
“No, Mrs. Palin. It’s Yom Kippur.”
“Well, hello, Yom. Can I leave a message with you?
That woman scares me.
PS -- here's the background if you don't get it!
The most wonderful thing has happened to me. I've been mistaken for someone else. The Four Seasons has been in touch and they want me to write for their new family blog Have Kids, Will Travel. The best part is that we have to try out a resort!
We get to spend the weekend at their Hampshire property and pretend we are Mr. and Mrs. Muck, with mucky kids. Get this, we even have an itinerary!
Staring down at the radiology request, a few handwritten words seemed to jump upwards off the page to the sky: Gritty. 8 mm. URGENT. Surely this wasn't about me.
A month earlier I found a lump. My GP couldn't feel it, but she sent me to get it checked out. I wasn't that worried at the time; if my GP couldn't feel it, it wasn't there.
Game maker Ubisoft is giving readers of this fabulous blog the chance to win an Xbox Kinect along with a copy of Your Shape: Fitness Evolved.
Here's the blurb: Your Shape's groundbreaking camera tracking technology completely changes the fitness experience, providing users with an unprecedented level of accuracy and efficiency. Unlike other games, Your Shape’s proprietary Player Projection technology puts your body into the game for the ultimate fitness experience. You will physically interact with virtual environments in ways you’ve never seen before and you’ll be captivated by unique and exciting visual effects that respond to your movements and impact.
For a chance to win all you have to do is leave a comment below with the answer the following question:
What does Your Shape put into the game? (hint, answer is above in the text in bold and italics)
Leave a comment by midnight 7 February for a chance to win.
Please note: The Xbox 360 console is not included in this prize bundle.
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.
The winner is: smiley shazza
The handwritten note on the door of our local cinema says it all about the enormous popularity of this film: "All of today's showings of The Kings Speech are sold out".
It's been a couple of weeks since the UK release and it's still difficult to see the story about King George VIth and Lionel Logue, the speech therapist that helped him get over his stammer. I had to call around to several cinemas; most preempted recordings with a message about limited or non-availability of tickets to see the film. After Googling the film, I finally got tickets at larger cinema about 30 miles away.
The first thing that struck me was the age of the audience. I had to get up several times to let ladies with beige jackets and pleated skirts get to their seats. I wondered when the last time most of them had been inside a cinema and was intrigued as to what brought them out on a rainy evening.
Karin at The Rubbish Diet asked me to take a pledge to help the environment. She is one of the first bloggers I met in person, and she's really cool. My pledge is really simple, to stop using plastic bags and replace them with reuseables.
Can you take a pledge too, and then pass it around the globe virtually?
thnx!
One of the best things about being a mum blogger is getting a sneak peak at films before they are released. Sometimes I even get to go on press junkets, and meet the talent behind the films and ask all sort of mum-type questions. I love it!
The girls and I recently saw Disney's 50th animated film, Tangled. It is the story of Rapunzel. You know the one, where a gorgeous girl with long hair is stuck in a tower and is rescued by a handsome prince?
It sounds terribly twee and predictable, doesn't it?
It's not! Disney turned this tale on its head. Yes it has the signature princess, but it is much more. The film touches on issues as such child abduction, a mother's love, growing up and there are even some spiritual tones.
My 7-year-old daughter had swine flu and it was hell.
It lasted two weeks. She had a sore throat and a high fever. She had a chesty, hacking cough that would lead to getting sick (not that she had much to throw up, she wasn't eating). She was tired and listless. At one point she recoiled when I touched her. She just wanted to be in bed, alone, with the lights off. She had a respite after a week, but then it came back with a vengeance; more coughing, more getting sick, more high fever. My main goal was to keep her temperature down and to make sure she took liquids.
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The highlight of my press junket to Disneyland Paris was meeting some of the talent behind Disney's new animated film Tangled. Press junkets are a whole experience in themselves; I could write an entire post about them. I was the lone blogger amongst a large group of European press, and a guy from one of the mainland nationals kept eeking in all his questions before anyone else could breathe! I did my job though and managed to get in a few parent-focused questions.
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