Spent most of the morning putting together the new changing table and rocker/glider. Gearing up for approx. 20 more years of toil :). I must say, the changing table is possibly the highest quality flatpack furniture I've ever seen. Quite the cut above. It was my best furniture-assembling experience yet.

1. Spend several years cultivating the image of someone who is not especially afraid of spiders and who will be perfectly happy to pick them up (with bare hands if need be) and put them outside, should any be found around the house. NB. It helps if you are actually comfortable doing this. 2. Have… Continue reading A wizard wheeze

…to eat the mince pies! Also: recruiting mixer last night. Feeling good about hiring a network engineer…

The visiting family have left the Elbeno household, the remaining bits of Xmas fare that didn't get eaten are being thrown away, past their sell-by date, Santa Claus is Ebaying the list of naughty girls, and I get to pack up the decorations for another year. As we enter the new year the proto-Elbeno is… Continue reading That's it for another year

Werner Heisenberg, having been delayed at the airport on his way to an important physics conference, is speeding down the road in his hire car when he sees a flashing blue light in his mirror and hears that familiar siren noise. He wearily pulls over, winds down the window, and shortly the police officer approaches.… Continue reading Physics joke

Yuletide in the Elbeno household has been quite low-key this year: just a chance to relax and enjoy the tree lights and decorations. Presents were less of a mountain and more of a molehill – we're lucky enough not to want for anything, and we didn't have the time or inclination to be excessively commercialised… Continue reading Having a cool Yule

…and you know what that means: another edition of the world's hardest quiz. Good luck!

Happy solstice to all. My calendar says it's the first day of Winter, but I'm not fooled by that.