Protected: H's "graduation"

We decided to change the meetup schedule for this month (partly because of my ESOL classes on Tuesday nights, and partly just as an experiment to see if we’d get any newbies along), and meet on a Monday night instead of Tuesday. Unfortunately, I forgot to advertise it on Yahoo until yesterday, so the experiment…

A couple of items of background: 1. In most of my incarnations on the internet, I use this avatar:[album 128913 FutureCat.jpg]I first found it in the avatar collection of a forum I occasionally visit under another guise (so I won’t mention the name of it here), so I’ve got no idea where it came from…

Yayyy!!!! We’ve got the internet back again!!! Oh, and the phone, but that’s not so important. Apparently the phone line across the street was broken, but when they fixed that, the phone still didn’t work – it turned out that our phone had broken as well. Presumably when the line broke it sent a surge…

Well, it looks like that although DD is back up and running again (well, apart from some weirdness with comments – it looks like there’s a bit of a delay happening between posting a comment and it actually appearing, which means that silly people like me double-post comments because we think it didn’t work the…

Ventura. Happy birthday Mum! The view from my motel room. A small hedge separates the carpark from a multi-lane road, busy with traffic (all going the same direction – right must lead towards work for everyone). That’s not the freeway, though – that lies beyond, a concrete monster towering over the road, I don’t know…

A little puzzle for you: What’s wrong with this picture? It’s a page from Shopping with Dad by Lesley Pether, a reader from the National Geographic’s “Windows on Literacy” series I borrowed from the ESOL-HT library. Spotted the weirdness yet? Have a closer look at this bit: It may be lost on my overseas readers,…