As seen on Family Fortunes tonight …
I want one!! (although it really should look shiny white ipod/ibook-esque to be part of my collection 
) Perhaps one for Jax and Tim’s series … although I do confess to rather liking the idea of it If you could programme it like those Roma things (do they still have those?) it could even come under ‘educational resources’, couldn’t it?
Today we (the girls and I) have shopped (with a nice coffee/hot chocolate pitstop in there somewhere), baked, and gamed. Oh, and done blog-related fiddling too, watched a film, and then some TV this evening. A friend popped in and sat in the kitchen while I baked, so it was nice to have some adult company as well as spending girly time with Anna & Abbie.
Meanwhile Josiah has spent the day chez Portico, while Steve and Chris went off to some rally or other to take photos of cars. Yawn. I’m expected to enthuse about these after the event, but my favourite one is this one … because I think it’s far more interesting to look at people!
November 12th, 2006 at 9:10
I saw that and said ‘I want one’ too
November 12th, 2006 at 10:39
Yes, ppl interest me more than cars do too.
November 12th, 2006 at 11:33
The boys watched that and were chatting about it, now I know what they meant. It looks like a fab idea for a busy house, I’d probably trip over it all the time though!
November 12th, 2006 at 12:49
How strange, we were talkign about “LIfe is Beautiful” last night – we saw it *years* ago (in our house in Oxford), and I can’t say I’ve thought of it often since. Did you watch it dubbed or with subtitles?
November 12th, 2006 at 13:19
I love it, it has to rank as one of my all time favourite films. I prefer watching it in Italian but the girls wanted the English so we watched it dubbed yesterday. I’m going to watch it again in Italian before sending it back though. Makes me cry absolutely buckets every time.
November 12th, 2006 at 18:08
Noticed the cleaners out of stock! I don’t do cleaning, that’s the entire reason I had kids! Adam cottoned on quite quickly it wasn’t exactly the game Mummy made it out to be, Olivia, being blonde, is taking a little while longer…. although she’s starting to show suspicious signs of rebellion….
Not sure about resurrecting my old blog, can’t remember all the passwords, can’t remember how to do it even… might need to pick some brains, I know Olivia’s really keen to have one of her own.
November 12th, 2006 at 21:12
Isn’t La vita e bella one of the most gorgeous holocaust comedies ever? Can’t believe you allowed the kids to watch it dubbed into English though – that’ll never be happening in my house, I can tell you that! In fact, Caleb is quite happy to watch Monsters Inc in French on the DVD version we bought there!
November 13th, 2006 at 12:51
Are there many other holocaust comedies Mark?
November 13th, 2006 at 16:42
lol, I wouldn’t have called it a comedy – drama, perhaps? The first half is funny, it’s true, but once they are in the concentration camp it’s just emotional. A must see, in any case. In Italian, of course.
November 13th, 2006 at 20:08
Because of course Monsters Inc manages to capture so much more of the true culture and meaning of the film when watched in French.