Relookage

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

With odds of 7 to 1, you might be surprised by a minor relookage, as the French say, in the form of a new header image. The odds come from a random image rotator, scripted by PhotoMatt, drawing on seven different header images.
Only thing is … the images seem reluctant to change with each […]

Ghetto girls go global

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

I noticed one of my recent posts had been picked up by a Chinese blogger.

I wonder what the girls will make of that.

Juggling

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

In between picking up the kids from swimming lessons after school and frying fish for dinner, I had a 45 minute window of opportunity to upgrade this blog from WordPress version 1.5 to 2.0.2.
Step 1: Backup your database – check!
Step 2: Rinse swimming costumes and hang up wet towels – check!
Step 3: Backup […]

Vote rustling

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Nominated for
Best Expat Weblog
and
Most Underappreciated Weblog

It was the blip in the stats that tipped me off. A sudden jump in the late afternoon, Caribbean time. Among the usual google image referrals for girl-on-girl housework and tits ‘n’ bums, kids ‘n’ mums, I spotted the fresh spoor from Ljubljana, Slovenia, referred by A Fistful of Euros. […]

CSS my house

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

I’ve got paint roller blisters after another marathon session repainting the stairwell. Ours is a new house and we are the first occupants. The builders painted all the inside walls matt white. Then some dufus came along and did some touch ups using gloss white, which shone its smeary brilliance from ceiling to floor.
After a […]