9 Today!
Happy Birthday Rowan, nine today!
Gill made a nice cake:
and Rowan had a few friends over. Tomorrow she’s off to the Theatre to see Grease with two of her school friends.
For her birthday, we got her (with contributions from other family members) a portable DVD player. So she’s been locked in her bedroom at every opportunity, staring at the tiny screen.
In other news… Gizmo, our hyper-intelligent lurcher, has been a pain in the arse. I left him in the house for five minutes while I took Lola to nursery, he discovered the pencil case Rowan was given for her birthday (foolish me: I should have shut the bedroom door), smelt the chocolate inside it, ripped the pencil case open and ate the chocolate. Cue tears from Rowan when she got back from school and discovered the carnage. He also barked and snapped at everybody who came around this evening, and got his teeth into Emma’s brand new coat (bought in Barcelona last week) and damaged it. Ouch.
Also, I’ve been feeling generally shit, I think it’s because the central heating is back on. But, I did do some more nice logo designs 
which made me feel better. I’m feeling much more confident in my design skills after a few days spent practising them almost exclusively. Now I just need to get the rest of my programming work out of the way, which I can’t quite bring myself to do right now 