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I have listed some of my favourite children's books and reviewed them for you.

Some of them are very well known. All are well-loved and well worth tracking down to share with the children in your life.

For those who can't click, here's a pic.

Play Week

You would have to be joking!! Or perhaps you meant Pay Week? Now that would have my full attention.

I did have fun creating this magazine cover though. Isn't she cute.

Another one of Gran's girls

RSS and Newsfeeds

I am now the proud owner of a Blogline account. Anything to save time and have something interesting and hopefully useful delivered to my PC without me having to lift a finger.

I wonder does anyone offer a similar service supplying meals and freshly laundered clothes. Now that would be a real winner.

Blog about Technology

I love the internet. I am a Google Granny. I use it constantly at work for word definitions (much quicker than a dictionary), images (a cake decorator needed a picture of a chimp showing his teeth - we could have looked forever before we found one in a book), song lyrics, information on endangered animals, telephone numbers (we have discarded our collection of telephone books) and other obscure information.

I use it at home to pursue my hobbies - real estate browsing, family history, knitting, music and recipes. An email account is a mixed blessing. Lots of spam and ads that I could live without and if you are one of those people who email an urgent message when you could have phoned - "a pox on all your houses".

I love the fact that my kids will email me jokes, pics of my grandchildren and keep in touch when they are overseas. They wouldn't dream of using snail mail.

This is a photo of my great-grandparents who came to Australia in 1857. I plan to publish my family history soon using scanned photos and copies of historical documents. Word processing will make it so much easier.

Is anyone out there able to recommend a scanner? I need to buy one soon.

Solitary Snowy

May I introduce, by popular demand, Snowy. He's a real challenge to the red-eye reduction, but he is a very handsome fellow.

Unfortunately he doesn't have a girlfriend, otherwise we would probably be inundated with an avalanche of little snowflakes in no time.

Spoilsports aren't we!!

My Granny Card

I know you'll be impressed with this.

I was.
If I ever grow fed up with my present job, this card could come in handy.

Would you hire me?

I hope my other four grandchildren don't see this blog.

They will be demanding equal time.

Rigz - Take 2

For all of you who are tired of seeing my grandchildren. Here's a photo of my (son's) dog. He was supposed to be a purebred border collie but I think his ex-girlfriend was robbed.

Although he lives on the farm he is just a pet. Just like me really.

He may not be pretty, but he's pretty big.

Again, just like me.

Another late night

It's now 12.20am and I'm waiting for a pic. of Rigz to load. It's torture!! I am about to spit the dummy again. Two more hours and all I've managed to do is load 2 pics. This is so not worth it.

Tomorrow night I'll check out a few other local blogs and add some lists to mine.

Please do my survey. That didn't take long to set up and the results should be revealing.

You are probably all so busy blogging that you don't have time to read other people's blogs but here's hoping. The few I have peeked into are all very different and will no doubt give me an insight into your individual quirks.

You probably thought I was calm and unflappable - peace-loving even.

You were wrong.

Seriously Sleep Deprived

I've changed my template. Did you notice? I tried to load another jpg file. I could have (but I didn't) vacuumed the house while it was loading. I cancelled after 15 minutes. There must be a quicker way!!! I'm beginning to sympathise with Michelangelo and this blog is nowhere near as impressive as the Cistene chapel ceiling. I've just tried again and squandered another 15 minutes of my day. Still no joy. I'll try putting it onto my memory stick and downloading it at work. Flickr is no quicker. I've been on the Internet for 45 minutes in this session, but who's counting? Tick - tick - tick - tick -tick ... ... ... ... ... zzz zzz zzz zzz ... ... ... ... ...

I used to have a life, now a have a blog.

More of my life down the gurgler

Doing this at home has serious drawbacks. I'm on dial-up and everything takes soooooo loooooong toooooooo loooooooad!!!!! Fifteen minutes a day - you would have to be kidding. I'm on here for a couple of hours at least as I faithfully follow links to achieve what I would normally do with a couple of mouse clicks.

I have only loaded one photo onto flickr as it took forever. Made myself a Gorgeous Granny card which I have printed and made a Dummies book cover to express my outrage over spending so much time for so little reward. I was going to glam up my header with some glitter before I realised that my credit card would need to be involved. I would rather spend my bucks on sparklies I can wear.

Must have all these new passwords tattooed on my arm so that I won't forget them.

Despite what the automatic time says, this post is being done at 12.35am. As the name of my blog suggests I do my best work after dark.