Did you watch the British detective series Bergerac? The building that was used as the police station used to be a children’s home. And now there’s a real mystery: child abuse and possibly murder, dating back decades, in that same building. BBC NEWS | Europe | Jersey | Child’s body found at care home Parts of a child’s body have been found by police in a former children’s home in Jersey.
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Since I was sick week before last, we canceled the regular twice-monthly housecleaning service and deferred it to this Wednesday. Which means that in addition to more than the usual amount of clutter, there was a lot of stuff on the carpet and dirt in the front hall and a huge number of dustbunny-type junk in the upstairs bedroom. It takes a while for my completely dormant housekeeping skilz to stir themselves, but today I’d finally had enough of looking at dusty margins and clumps of cat hair on the carpet, so I got out the vacuum cleaner. Fairly quickly,…
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Okay, it’s Saturday, it’s too cold to go outside for more than a brief, well-layered walk, and so therefore I’ve been making some modifications to the CSS file for the blog. There were a couple of issues that were bothering me with this otherwise excellent theme: Virtual Assistance For Business : Free Premium WordPress blog theme “Talian†released. An elegant theme that is very much close to my heart. The theme designer hasn’t responded to comments requesting fixes or information for several months. It’s likely that he’s not that interested in supporting his free themes, just in designing them. Which…
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One of my Flickr photos got selected for the current Schmap online guide – they use photos to illustrate points of interest in their web-based city travel guides. It just goes to show you that it’s a good idea to tag your photos effectively on Flickr, as this is the second time something like this has happened. The other one requires me to fill out some kind of form, need to get on that this weekend. I might actually get a small fee for use of another of my photos. Salt Lake City – Theme Bars The decor is as…