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When Ada wants to indicate the presence of of Jacques, she refers to them with her rendition of the noises Scarface Claw makes. If only I could explain this to him I’m sure he’d be dead chuffed.

Also: There is no entry in Wikipedia for Scarface Claw. WTF Wikipedia?

I just got another parcel of Ventolin inhalers for controlling my athsma. For most of my adult life I’ve run about one of these a month, maybe every second month during a good run.

Turns out I had last got some in 2006. That’s three every year and a half.

…with less than a year to go to an election you announce that your preferred strategy for the future of New Zealand is wage cuts for all!

That is all.

Actually, that is not all. What a painful, over-engineered non-solution to a variety of, for the most part, non-problems. And those responsible for the religious crusade of texinfo can go to hell.

That is all.

Our nanny comes via an outfit that manages nannying services; as part of that they run evaluations of the nannies. This one contained a note mentioning that the supervisor had left some material on reading and literacy. Now this would raise a giggle or two anyway, since Ada has already got scads of books she’ll haul out and demand to be read (to little cries of “read, read!”), but the fact it arrived a couple of days after she got her first James Joyce made it even funnier.