Who put strawberry jam on my brand new 42" plasma TV?

I'll give you one guess? Grrrr!!!

Never Let Kids Urinate In Your Vacuum Cleaner (I kid you not).

I came home from work the other day to find that the house had a general bad smell about it. You know, musty and dank. I could see that Lynda had been burning incense and aromatic candles to try and cover it up. So then the penny dropped.... What did the kids do?

We have one of those very cool Dyson vacuum cleaners. You know the ones, they never lose suction....very powerful..yada yada yada. They're expensive too!!

Trouble is, it's bulky. We've never really have a good place to store it, so we tend to leave it out on our back verandah.

It turns out Lynda goes to use the vacuum cleaner to clean the rug in the lounge. As she turns it on, foul smelling urine sprays from the exhaust over "everything". And lots of it apparently. On the walls, rugs, couches. (I am just so glad I was at work and not there to witness or smell it) :-) It took Lynda hours to clean up, deodorised and disinfect everything.

What we think happened was this...

Ben (who is completely toilet trained) has just a couple of times in the past month or two dropped his dacks wherever he's standing and proceeded to relieve himself. Our theory is that he's peed out on the back verandah at some point, directly into the exhaust of the vacuum cleaner (which points up), remaining there for that ill-fated moment when the vacuum cleaner would next be used.

The smell hung around the house just for the day. Everything (except the vacuum cleaner) is back to normal. The vacuum cleaner still smells each time it's used.

Ben and the Dating Web Site

Ben is four years old. He's been going out to my computer and typing what he wants into the Google search bar. He's been visiting the Wiggles web site, Bob the Builder web site and Tweenies, Pooh Bear. He goes to their web sites and play games. He's really quite clever at doing this.

Now there are so many ad's running on sites and search results nowadays that it's easy to get distracted. Have you noticed how many of them are dating sites?

So the other day I walk past our little office, and there's Ben looking at "pricelesspartner.com". The web site looks up your IP address and ties you to a rough location. So I catch him looking at some dodgy pictures of a guy supposedly in Brisbane looking for the love of a lady friend.

There's Ben checking out this guy's photo and scrolling through his Bio. Very dodgy stuff indeed. Why couldn't he have clicked on a girlie pic? Oh that's right, because dating sites are full of 18-35 males who, when they're not playing World of War Craft, are looking for the love of a stunning super model lady friend who also shares an interest in World of Warcraft. Good luck!

Needless to say, I closed the browser pretty quick before emotional scarring could take hold. :-).

The Tjuz.com Web Site

Well I've finally got something up and running on the http://www.tjuz.com web site.

I am using the site to supply information about Coeliac disease and gluten free diets. It's a project I have been wanting to kick off for some time. I am particularly pleased with the Gluten Free List that I've compiled.

I am using the free Google Pages service as a hosting experiment. So far so good. (Their templates are buggy though).

Well it's now 12:16am. So Happy New Year too! :-)