Welcome to MrReD.info

I know what you're thinking, nobody has welcome for their main page anymore. It's old hat. As it turns out, I haven't bought a hat in years, so I'm good with it.

Anyway, this site is a development playground for me, and a blog site for my family and I. It is somewhat of a work in progress, and I'm developing it when I get time.

So have a read and enjoy what parts of the site exist.

Inspire-mint

"Vent your spleen: From the idea in the past that the spleen was the place where evil intentions began"

mr's thoughts?

A Surgical Strike on Westfields

Debriefing

It may surprise you to know, but Red hates shopping. More than most men. Whist my feelings towards it rely on external forces - time pressures, hunger, child aggravation quotient etc. Red's is basically 90% over the whole thing prior to arriving at the shopping center.

So, to combat this, we make lists. You see, lists equal mini-goals that are probably achievable. And today, was a great example of this in action. We left home - later than planned - and arrived at the local Westfields to find the place crawling with shoppers & their cars. A quick check of Red showed no signs of steam venting from her head. We were off to the best possible start.

All of a sudden (3 hours actually) we were done. Hooray! We all toddled back to the car and headed off.

It's the only way to shop. In and out in the shortest time humanly possible.

Sat 19 Dec 2009 9:50pm

Mmmm Kitchen-y goodness

My New Kitchen

We have a new kitchen! Hooray! It's been a long time coming, but is finally in and completed. All that is left to do is paint. (Don't get me started on the house paint - when we bought it, it was all "rental blue" walls - with "rental turquoise" on the skirting boards...)

Anyway, We have a lovely new oven - gas + electric x 900mm, and we've moved a wall to give us some more room. It's come up really well.

Tue 15 Dec 2009 12:58pm

I'm back!

My Cot *sleeping*

Daddy has finally let me use this again. It seems that when I am naughty, I don't get to do stuff I like - but Mummy and Daddy keep getting things that I want to explore.

Like Mummy and Daddy's new "kitchen"? (This is a funny word) There is a big shiny thing with a light in it sometimes. I can see myself in it, and there are buttons and knobs to play with - but Mummy and Daddy don't like that.

And just a few days ago, they put up the big tree again then put shiny things on it and told me not to play with them! They don't know me very well. (I play with them when they are in a different room)

G'night.

Sat 19 Dec 2009 7:32pm