One million sugar-coated fingers.

• Coolest Grammy ever.

• Libertarian Troll Bingo.

• Twisted broke. steer helped try to fix it.

• Sesame Street as first fisting experience.

Freda is (still) nearly walking! Today her high chair arrived. It's like a starship console for babies, complete with cup holder. She enjoys banging things against it. Her next two teeth are coming through, making her a misery.

The front room is partially rebuilt. I scrounged together more screws for the shelf, and it's now holding about 150kg of records.

This Sunday (17th February) is fairly near my birthday, so we'll be down the Pembury from about 7pm. All welcome.

arkady's soda bread: 400g self-raising flour, 100g margarine, teaspoon salt, 250ml milk or milk/water. Add salt to flour, rub fat into flour, add milk, stir it in mixer till it forms dough, knead dough on floured surface, stick in loaf tin, bake on 200°C for ~40 min (or until risen and you get a hollow knocking sound). Allow to cool until it won't burn your fingers. Eat it, it won't last long enough to get cold. Not too much work, incredibly nice.