It's Boxing Day morning here which means I have survived another one. Five different family groups to visit (compressed into three visits fortunately). Christmas is nice, but it requires too much coordination. Given that the car had decided to start playing up on Christmas Eve it had the potential to be a lot more stressful (thankfully it was only a spark plug cable that had come adrift). I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas (although I suppose those in the US are still celebrating it I suppose).

Kittens

We have finally acquired the long-anticipated kittens. They are about nine weeks old and brother and sister. He is a smokey coloured tabby named "The Dog" (after the comic strip character from Footrot Flats, people outside New Zealand aren't expected to understand this). She is a tortoise-shell tabby called "Bandit" (since the other one is smokey, people under twenty-five aren't expected to understand this, people over twenty-five don't want to). Kittens and computers don't mix, to quote Cushla: "I was wondering why some of my files had acquired strange names, but then I realised that the kittens had been walking on the keyboard."

Hacking

It's Christmas time ! When do I find the time for such things ?