It’s 2006 already.  It hardly seems any time since we were all worrying about the disasters that awaited us when almost everything stopped working because of the Y2K problem, but we survived that and now we are half way through the decade without a name (no, you can’t call it the "noughties"). My new year…

This week I am mainly…being grumpy. I hate it when things go wrong and I can’t do anything about it (as opposed to work – where I hate it when things go wrong and I can’t avoid doing something about it). My LCD monitor stopped working.  That is to say that it started worked for…

About ten days ago, my son was given three small goldfish (is goldfish a generic term or do they all have different names?).  A few days later the first one died.  OK, these things happen. So we bought two more goldfish (these ones really looked like goldfish and were bigger).  Then the second one started…