Russian Food Funnies

Im married to a Russian woman, not a mail order bride or even an online mail order bride, but some poor woman who seemed to like me more than I liked myself.

But being Russian means she loves eating Russian food, and we are lucky to have 3 shops in the area that sell Russian food.

Well this blog today is about the food she buys. And today she bought some chocolate balls which taste just like Ferrero Roche, but due to bad translation end up as something else.



And thanks to Russian translation for the ingredients they become;



Sexy "Balls in Chocolate Power".

Mr Roche will not be quaking in his boots, and nor will our Russian guests think we are spoiling them.

Missing Reviews

sorry about the lack of reviews - I wrote about 6 of them on my phone, but the phone went wonky and is due to be upgraded in the next 2 weeks, but I have them saved on a memory card which I shall pull them off once the new phones arrive. RIP Orange M2000, long live O2 XDA Exec!

Children's TV for Adults

No this isnt an entry about pornography, but rather a review of children's TV, specifically CBeebies, the toddler channel from the BBC.

With a 3.5 year old running around who cries at the thought of not catching the latest episode of the Shiny Show or the Fimbles in the same way we hit the roof to miss Star Trek or Dr Who, I end up watching a lot of children's TV.

The reason it is CBeebies is (a) is available on freeview, (b) its from the BBC meaning it has a certain agenda which is visible and trust worthy, (c) advert free.

We try, as parents, to limit her viewing for the sake of her eyes, plus I dont want her to become a couch potato.

While I am not going to be reviewing any of the shows now, I will shortly, Im listing below the ones that I at least enjoy, in no particular order.

The Shiny Show
Big Cook, Little Cook
Come Outside
Lazy Town
Fimbles/Roly Mo Show
Teletubbies
Tikabilla
StoryMakers
Balamory
Boogie Beebies
Bits & Bobs
Boo
Smarteenies
Lunar Jim
Little Robots
Fab Lab
Doodle Do
Bobinogs
Tweenies

Im only going to review the ones Ive watched more than 5 times, and those she watches, you will see there are quite a few I havent mentioned, simply because I dont see them.

Remember my reviews are going to be from an ADULT's perspective giving ratings according to

educational information - i.e. telling me things I didnt know
entertainment value - it is agonising to watch or does it surprise
production value - even though you can spend a ton on a show it can still look crap
presenters - including both human and puppets etc...
emperor's new clothes - this is the one Im most interested in (apart from the last), are we learning the same stories (sharing toys, be nice to your mum and dad, never tell lies) but with different characters?
adult value - would you shag the female presenters, do they wear clothes that are inappropriate for the show, are there in-jokes and sarcasm lost on children that adults find funny (Doodle Do)

Well here goes. I hope to review all 19 by this time next week.
Each show will get a short write up, good and bad points, then each of the 6 (so far) sections will be rated 1-5, and a total at the end. And just for completeness Ill throw the figures into an excel spreadsheet and see what comes out the other end.

Any comments or extra criteria I should add?

Amelia Rosina

baby no.2

Family Plus 1

Okay time to come clean. In my user info I stated that Im married to a woman and father to 2 more. Well that was true as at 9.49am 17th June2006 GMT. But before then it was just a lie.

You see my wife gave birth to our new daughter to make my user info correct. I guess I was just being lazy and not wanting to update it.

Regardless Im here to start the welcome to the world Amelia Rosina XXXXXX.

Love Daddy

Little Things Piss Me Off

Realised tonight that I have a dead pixel on my laptop. Yes its a Dell and its over 3 years old, so it has done well. But it still narks me off because Ive just coughed out money have the memory and hard drive upgraded.

Not done any writing as mentioned earlier, but spent the evening putting stuff on ebay.

Wife still on baby-watch, but worried the baby will be born tomorrow and have the birthdate of 06/06/06.

But my wife pointed out that a nicer birthday would be 20th June 2006, which would be 20 06 2006 or 2006 2006. But she cant wait that long, and nor can I.
Sitting here watching Big Brother, writing this blog and thinking of baby names. We have one in mind, but keeping an open mind.

Pissed that tomorrow will be the 4th episode of Lost season 2 that I have missed, but recorded and not watched.

Baby Update

Daughter is all in spain, with my parents, which leaves my wife perfectly situated to sleep 24 hours day while waiting for the big day. 7-10 days to go to the due date.

Name all sorted, clothes all arranged, carry-cot loaded, pram sorted - - mobile phone packed up! Of all the XXXXXXXX times that my phone could kiss goodbye to the corporeal world its now!

So I rang Orange because Im on a replacement contract and they want me to go through 20 questions before they believe it might actually be not working. They are finally happy and put me through to Orange Technical support who are off until 10am. Well its 11:30 and they still havent called.

I have an expensive phone and they are trying their hardest to wriggle out.

Update to follow later........................

In a mad rush this morning I forgot my book and notes, so its going to be a reading and writing free day, or so I thought. I remembered my writing partner's book he sent me for review and comments, so I did that instead.

Parents

Mum and dad came over from Spain last night (2am!) as they have a wedding to attend to on Saturday.
Feeling very tired, and still have a whole day of work ahead of me.
Still they are going to take our daughter back with them for the summer in Spain, giving my wife and I space for the new baby.

I cannot believe the preparation time involved with visiting dignitaries!!!