Why do people do it?

Surprisingly I was one of the first to wake up today, 5.30am! but luckily didn't feel too tired.

Fordingbridge, New Forest
Living in Hampshire, you always tend to tune in when you hear a name that you recognise as being 'local' - national news today a tragic story of what appears to be a father stabbing his 2yr old daughter, 1 yr old daughter and wife, then hung himself - why on earth do people do such unbelievable things, what makes this man feel he has the right to take his children's and wife's lives in this way? or how miserable or desperate must he have been to have felt the need to do this? Tragic, shocking, sad, ...... read more

Anyway, onto something considerably less serious! back to web developers! Having sent a frustrated email to him at the end of yesterday I received a reply starting "I am doing my best here, it's not as simple as it sounds" well nothing ever is matey! but your colleague went on holiday having caused the problem, so please resolve it as a matter of urgency!!

It is day 2 of the Summer holidays, and I think I am going mad! The kids were out wit the in laws this afternoon, 2-4.30pm! I don't have the best of relationships with that part of the family, to the point where I haven't spoken to them since the last time I saw them about 3 weeks ago - which, considering they live the closest is good going.

This is due to family politics, expectations, respect whatever you want to call it. Apparently I snubbed them last time they arrived as I didn't say hello, (roll out the red carpet, shake hands and give a strong embrace!) I was actually eating my tea and they were simply round to baby sit for an hour while we went to the school for an open evening.

This lack of greeting was made aware to me by my wife, so I trotted up the garden to say hello, but father in law walked around the other side of the veg patch so I politely chatted to the step mother in law! However, this constituted in their opinion as 'I went up the garden but didn't say hello' - tossers in my opinion. Anyway, we came back an hour later both in laws watching Wimbledon, with both kids crying upstairs as they had been told not to come out of their rooms! I was gob smacked and yes I do like to be a good father, show discipline, manners etc, but to treat a 5 & 7 year old like they are at a military boarding school because family simply cant be arsed to baby sit properly due to inconvenience is unnecessary.

Well fortunately today I only had to open the door to one of them when they dropped the kids back at 3.40pm - under strict instruction mmmm weird time, as they said they would be back at 4.30pm, apparently they mixed the time ups 3.40 -4.30 at least they didn't have them long which would have pleased them, hardly worth having them at all.

Well the kids were back 2 mins and arguing about black marks and gold stars on how well they behaved - after apparently being so good when they out FML!

Noisy Crickets

These little buggers make so much bloody noise! We have a bearded Dragon and his name is Dexter, very very sweet lizard - its food isn't as sweet unfortunately. Meal worms he likes, but morios he loves - if you haven't seen these things like a like big fat shiny looking maggots, but Dexter bless him, loves them (they kind of crunch when he eats them and puss like innards come out nice!) But the crickets he eats - we have sorted out keeping them alive and fresh - food! So we give the crickets an old apple core, or spinach leaf which they love, but boy they grow quick and shed their skin - but the worst part is they get bloody noisy, it sounds like the Amazon or something at night in my boys room.

Think I have harped on enough this post, laters!