Musicovery

This evening I signed up to StumbleUpon again and the first site I Stumbled was this one and I listened to a track I haven't listened to for YEARS!

It seems to be a very friendly way to discover music depending on what mood you are in...

All you do is choose a region on the remote control and it chooses some music for you...and when the first track has finished it goes onto the next one on the swirly map and so on...there seems to be plenty of music on there to listen to and well worth a long play...Whilst the free version is lo-fi there is the option to listen to CD quality for 9.99 Euros p.a. !
Perhaps this could be a contender for Jonny's Got 5 minutes blog...

Decorating the hall....finished at last!

I took the opportunity of Peter being away to finish decorating the hall...It's really hard to believe that I no longer have to look at green patch of wall anymore! The hall has been a work in progress since I was pregnant and stalled when Sunshine arrived....and as Sunshine is now 15 months old it has taken a while to get the last two difficult bits up (that's the bit which goes behind the radiator!)

Anyway, it's done now and as long as no-one looks too closely at it I'm happy...

Blogger Beta...

...I was a bit daft and I migrated my blog to Sunshine's profile...so all my posts seem to be posted by Sunshine...This is a bit frustrating!!Finally I managed to add myself as an admin so it seems now that I can post as myself...

The new features seem to be quite good...if only I hadn't been so daft in the migration, I mean fancy letting Sunshine be in control of my blog! Well, I suppose she might actually post more than me!

Late Autumn Break

We spent the last 10 days at the villa in Portugal...A lovely relaxing family break. Sunshine was brilliant...she slept on the plane going out which meant that she was full of beans when we arrived. It was a little cloudy when we arrived and we had some fun and games with Hertz and the car seats...that's a whole long saga...Anyway, the sun soon came out and we had a few hot days over the first weekend...and then the heavens opened! A couple of days of storminess was fine - it was worse overnight and the pool certainly benefited....any more and it would turn into an infinity pool!

Our visits to Portugal are a bit of a lazy affair, so there is not much to say...we ate chicken piri-piri, pastais de natas, empada da galinha...Peter drank lots of bicas (short expresso)...lots of Port and plenty of Esplanada (a rather lovely regional wine)!
Sunshine seems to enjoy eating everything, although we didn't give her any piri-piri!!
We took Peter's mum with us and so we took the opportunity to go to our favourite restaurant once Sunshine had gone to bed. It was lovely to walk down to the village in the balmy evening, enjoy a lovely meal and a couple of Drambui's (in honour of Sunshine). Lucky for us Sunshine had been sleeping very well and didn't even seem to notice..!
The plane home wasn't quite as easy as going out, but BA did benefit from a bit of panel 'decorating', and Sunshine decided to go to sleep just as we were landing, which was a bit frustrating! Still she is a star most of the time!
Sunshine has posted some photos and if you are a Flickr friend or family there are some more here...

And just to even things up a bit....

Preserving Photos

Sunshine has taken to demanding to see Peter's school photos whenever
we go to his Mum's house, so it was decided that we should make some
copies to preserve the originals....I think we can see where Sunshine
gets some of her looks from....