From the category archives:

Boys

The Secret Lives Of Androids

by Lorna Harris on February 13, 2011

A family of Androids moved into our house a couple of weeks ago.  The boys have been studying their behaviour and cataloguing their every move.  The results are quite fascinating:
Rather surprisingly, Androids prefer the iPhone:
They are scared of piranhas:

Use a leash when taking their AT-ATs for a walk:

Prefer Xbox 360 to the Wii but still [...]

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The X-Box currency crash

by Lorna Harris on September 28, 2010

Apparently chores for X-Box time may backfire.  As I mentioned in my previous post, chores are done at top speed and I’ve been rather smug about the efficiency of it all.  The boys whizz off as soon as their chores are assigned, the hoover is whooshed around the room and back into the cupboard.
Today I [...]

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The Gallery: Happy Birthday!!!

by Lorna Harris on September 14, 2010

It’s very cool that Tara’s Gallery has the theme of Celebration today.
Today is our very good friend M’s birthday.  He’s 10!!!!
M’s family stayed with us in July and we helped celebrate his big sister becoming a teenager.
To celebrate, we rented a Duffy for a couple of hours and left my boys and M behind.  Boys [...]

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The faff factor

by Lorna Harris on February 3, 2010

I taught my sons a new word this week – faff.
My husband and my youngest son faff about.  There is no other word that properly describes it.  They are incapable of walking out the door without faffing.  My oldest son and I do not faff.  We leave at exactly the time required and arrive at [...]

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The Dying Tuna

by Lorna Harris on March 29, 2009

My two boys are having fun being the only British boys in Balboa.  My oldest son, Declan, is developing a really good sense of humour, which I’m happy about.  I really appreciate someone with a wicked sense of humour, the wickeder the better.

Declan has been attending his new school since September and needless to say [...]

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