Mouses, Fairies and Gardens

The year is just flying by, less than 50 days until our holiday to Australia. Lauren has kept busy with school - there was even a dress up day last week where Lauren went as a fairy. We spent last Sunday at Gran and Gramps, running around the garden and feeding apples to the horses.

Schooliform!

Quick snap of Lauren all ready for her first day at school.

Birthdays and School

It's been a very busy month. Sara turned *cough* 23 and Lauren turned 5! Then, Lauren started Year 1 at Daubeney Primary School.

Festivals and Superheroes

We went along to the Lovebox Weekender in Victoria Park last weekend. We only stayed for a few hours but it was great fun. We had intended to see the B-52's but they weren't on until 6.45pm which was a bit late in the day for us with Lauren. Earlier in the day Lauren had dressed up as a superhero!

Snip snip snip!

A new haircut for Lauren yesterday - everyone was traumatised by the time it was over, but the result was worth it.
Double jeopardy though today as I had to get her outfit organised, get her dressed and do her hair. I'm sorry Lauren ...

It's Alive!

A very productive Saturday.


Here are a few photo's of the finished result. There are still some cables to be tidied up but the build went very smoothly. She (Epoch) even started up correctly on first boot!


Thermaltake Armor Jr. case
Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT
MSI K9A Platinum Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
4GB Memory
2 x Samsung 500GB disks
700w Seasonic Power Supply


Our Shuttle (Nibbler) has now become Lauren's personal computer and she spent some time yesterday creating havoc on the Cbeebies website.

It makes a huge difference having the larger case - sometime later this week I'll put the 2 machines next to each other and take a picture :) I think the Shuttle would probably fit inside the tower case ...










I've also just replaced the standard red SATA cables with lovely, sparkly RA SATA cables so they don't press up against the window ... /geek

Dough Delivery

Lauren asked me to take some photo's of her making various things out of playdough. She transports the playdough in the back of her trike and then tortures in into all kinds of everyday objects and foodstuffs. The playdough starts out in all manner of vibrant colours and ends up as a greyish-green blob.

Mmm, biscuits, pillows and a chicken!