Life is Extra-Marvelous!
We have a TV!
We have a dryer!
We have a DVD player!
We have normalcy!
Just in time for Caleb to get out of school for the summer holidays, our TV arrived! The many-tattooed delivery man came yesterday and brought it. He set it up and even left us a DVD for Audrey to watch – “Tractor Tom.” She was entertained for a bit, but then decided in her grumpy nap-starved state that she didn’t like it.
Audrey, Julie, Steve and I delivered Caleb to school in time for him to line up with his class to go in at 8.55. This morning at 9.20 we parents were invited to come to the school to see our child’s room for next year. We were pleased to see Caleb’s new room because it was nice and cool and had a great breeze. Granted – he won’t be in the room in heat like we’re having right now, but that’s a concern for another day. Then the girls and I delivered Steve to work.
We’re back home now and all 3 of us are in the lounge watching TV. Julie is in her pack & play, Audrey is on the floor, and I have my feet up enjoying the breeze from a fan. It’s supposed to get up to 36 or 37 C (96.7 – 98.6 F). We are hearing a lot of whining on the radio about how hot it is. One fella keeps saying it’s going to be the hottest day in the world ever. Wimps. We also heard that if it gets above 38.5 (101.3 F), it will truly be the hottest day ever recorded here in the UK. Hmm. I think they’d die in Texas. Or even in southern NM. My poor children are just sweaty, sticky little things by the end of each day. Lots of bathing for them, that’s for sure.
I need to figure out a dinner that requires little to no cooking. It really heats up the kitchen.
Caleb got to bring home Gulliver Bear last night from school. His teacher, Miss Pells, sends the bear home with a different kid along with his scrapbook for the kids/parents to chronicle what Gulliver does with each family. He’s on his second scrapbook having already had enough adventures to fill one. The kids either draw pictures or their parents take photos to put in. Each morning, Miss Pells reads the scrapbook to the other kids.
So we wrote about Gulliver meeting our newest stuffed animal, Paddington Bear. Steve has been reading Paddington stories to the kids, then when he went to the bank yesterday there was a rack of little Paddingtons (about 3” tall) for £2, so he bought the last one. Caleb also wrote about Gulliver meeting his T-Rex stuffy (also named Paddington) and about playing on his Gameboy. I let him take the Paddingtons to school.
I don’t know what it is about this kid naming his animals strange names. He has a giraffe named T-Rex Nolen (use the whole name, not just T-Rex), and a T-Rex named Paddington. All I can do is shake my head, but you can’t see me doing that.
I’m hoping to get online here in a little bit and do some looking around at some things. I need to upload this post, find a broadband carrier, and find a service like Netflix. Our library charges to check out DVDs. If we’re going to pay, we might as well have a big selection. Speaking of DVDs, I failed to mention before that our DVD player will play both PAL and NTSC DVDs. The DVDs in Europe and Asia have a different coding than North America. We use NTSC and they use PAL. Usually a DVD player will only play one type, but this one will play both. This means that in addition to playing DVDs we buy/rent over here, we can also play the ones we brought from home. I don’t think our player at home will do both, but no worries – Steve has a program loaded on the laptop that will record the DVD to the computer, then convert it to what we need for home, then burn it.
I don’t think I have any more marvelous things to say. I think I’m going to just skip that week that I haven’t posted about yet. Nothing super-interesting happened – I looked at 3 schools with the kids: Park Lane with Caleb and Goldilocks and Dickory Docks with Audrey. I didn’t like Goldilocks, so other than this mention, you won’t hear about it again. Audrey is going to Dickory Docks and is settling in fine. At Caleb’s school this morning, the school secretary, Sarah Passby, told Steve and me that everbody “just adores” Caleb and that he is so polite. What a relief to hear that!
Oh – I have to tell someone. I’m getting my haircut tomorrow. I haven’t told Steve yet. We’ll see if he notices. I’m going to a posh place just down the road. I saw their website advertised on the outside of their shop (www.forresters4hair.com) and was impressed with the site, so I made an appointment. We’ll see what they end up doing to me. I just don’t want a mullet – I don’t care how fashionable they are, they scream “80s hair band” to me.
So this is all for Wednesday morning.
We have a dryer!
We have a DVD player!
We have normalcy!
Just in time for Caleb to get out of school for the summer holidays, our TV arrived! The many-tattooed delivery man came yesterday and brought it. He set it up and even left us a DVD for Audrey to watch – “Tractor Tom.” She was entertained for a bit, but then decided in her grumpy nap-starved state that she didn’t like it.
Audrey, Julie, Steve and I delivered Caleb to school in time for him to line up with his class to go in at 8.55. This morning at 9.20 we parents were invited to come to the school to see our child’s room for next year. We were pleased to see Caleb’s new room because it was nice and cool and had a great breeze. Granted – he won’t be in the room in heat like we’re having right now, but that’s a concern for another day. Then the girls and I delivered Steve to work.
We’re back home now and all 3 of us are in the lounge watching TV. Julie is in her pack & play, Audrey is on the floor, and I have my feet up enjoying the breeze from a fan. It’s supposed to get up to 36 or 37 C (96.7 – 98.6 F). We are hearing a lot of whining on the radio about how hot it is. One fella keeps saying it’s going to be the hottest day in the world ever. Wimps. We also heard that if it gets above 38.5 (101.3 F), it will truly be the hottest day ever recorded here in the UK. Hmm. I think they’d die in Texas. Or even in southern NM. My poor children are just sweaty, sticky little things by the end of each day. Lots of bathing for them, that’s for sure.
I need to figure out a dinner that requires little to no cooking. It really heats up the kitchen.
Caleb got to bring home Gulliver Bear last night from school. His teacher, Miss Pells, sends the bear home with a different kid along with his scrapbook for the kids/parents to chronicle what Gulliver does with each family. He’s on his second scrapbook having already had enough adventures to fill one. The kids either draw pictures or their parents take photos to put in. Each morning, Miss Pells reads the scrapbook to the other kids.
So we wrote about Gulliver meeting our newest stuffed animal, Paddington Bear. Steve has been reading Paddington stories to the kids, then when he went to the bank yesterday there was a rack of little Paddingtons (about 3” tall) for £2, so he bought the last one. Caleb also wrote about Gulliver meeting his T-Rex stuffy (also named Paddington) and about playing on his Gameboy. I let him take the Paddingtons to school.
I don’t know what it is about this kid naming his animals strange names. He has a giraffe named T-Rex Nolen (use the whole name, not just T-Rex), and a T-Rex named Paddington. All I can do is shake my head, but you can’t see me doing that.
I’m hoping to get online here in a little bit and do some looking around at some things. I need to upload this post, find a broadband carrier, and find a service like Netflix. Our library charges to check out DVDs. If we’re going to pay, we might as well have a big selection. Speaking of DVDs, I failed to mention before that our DVD player will play both PAL and NTSC DVDs. The DVDs in Europe and Asia have a different coding than North America. We use NTSC and they use PAL. Usually a DVD player will only play one type, but this one will play both. This means that in addition to playing DVDs we buy/rent over here, we can also play the ones we brought from home. I don’t think our player at home will do both, but no worries – Steve has a program loaded on the laptop that will record the DVD to the computer, then convert it to what we need for home, then burn it.
I don’t think I have any more marvelous things to say. I think I’m going to just skip that week that I haven’t posted about yet. Nothing super-interesting happened – I looked at 3 schools with the kids: Park Lane with Caleb and Goldilocks and Dickory Docks with Audrey. I didn’t like Goldilocks, so other than this mention, you won’t hear about it again. Audrey is going to Dickory Docks and is settling in fine. At Caleb’s school this morning, the school secretary, Sarah Passby, told Steve and me that everbody “just adores” Caleb and that he is so polite. What a relief to hear that!
Oh – I have to tell someone. I’m getting my haircut tomorrow. I haven’t told Steve yet. We’ll see if he notices. I’m going to a posh place just down the road. I saw their website advertised on the outside of their shop (www.forresters4hair.com) and was impressed with the site, so I made an appointment. We’ll see what they end up doing to me. I just don’t want a mullet – I don’t care how fashionable they are, they scream “80s hair band” to me.
So this is all for Wednesday morning.
1 comment:
I had wondered about the PAL issues but did not know if they applied to DVDs.
Sounds like this doesn't not matter anyway but if remember correctly then not only would you need the DVD player to handle the format correctly but the TV has to handle it too...at least that was how it used to work. The format is related to the TVs and that is why the players have to match it. I think PAL runs more lines on the screen per unit distance than NCTS or something like that.
So even if you had a DVD player that handled DVDs that were PAL you would need your TV to handle it too. With the way they do things these days your LA TV might be PAL compatible also already. Y'all may have thought of that already though.
This was a problem for us except for ancient VHS tapes. I had hoped that they had fixed this problem by now for DVDs.
I wanted to buy a couple of VHS in NZ but felt the NCTS vs PAL was not worth messing with.
But it sounds like y'all have a different solution and do not need to worry about it.
So I take it that those little portable DVD players we both have are not PAL compatible? I had wondered about it before y'all left.
I think the only two Celsius temp points I have committed to memory are 35C and 40C. If it got to 35C (~95F) then it was getting warm and it got to 40C (~104F) then I could say hey now you are talking hot. :) Anything in between was not worth worrying about since we knew we were in the warm to hot range and folks were going to sweat. :)
It is excellent y'all have a TV and Dryer..well better yet you have them. It is the small luxuaries that real will help you along in your time there.
Have a great rest of the day.
Terry
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