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Valentine

By 6000 | 6000 | February 14, 2011

I got given this by my 2½ year old daughter this morning: Look, to be honest, the painting isn’t up to much, but on the plus side, her typing is really coming along (despite missing the apostrophe). I also received a butterfly-shaped Valentine cookie which I haven’t dared to eat yet. I’d happily trade it [...]

1 Comment | Tagged | Posted in the parenting bunny

Next year…

By 6000 | 6000 | April 8, 2010

Damn. Don’t you hate it when good ideas come along just too late? This one came to my attention about 7 weeks too late for Valentine’s Day this year, but I can only imagine how overwhelmed Mrs 6000 will be to find that I have arranged her funeral for her as a romantic gift next February. The brilliant [...]

3 Comments | Also tagged | Posted in learning curve, positive thoughts, that's a bit mad

Of penguins and picnics…

By 6000 | 6000 | February 14, 2009

I haven’t been on teh interwebs much today, but I would imagine that absolutely no-one in the blogosphere has mentioned the fact that it’s Valentines Day at all. And so once again, the responsibility of informing the world about these things falls on my shoulders. But it’s fine. I can manage. Honest. I had almost [...]

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Whose rights – who’s right?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 15, 2008

Did you enjoy your Valentines day? Stupid looking pink sparkly thing on your blog? Soppy card? Chocolates? Flowers? WAIT! You bought flowers?!? If you’re in the USA (and a fair number of accidental tourists to 6000 miles… are) then your lovely bunch of roses probably came from Columbia or Ecuador and were grown and cut for [...]

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