This is going to sound soooo sad….

October 15, 2005

I’ve just had fits of giggles watching the goldfish…. they keep swimming straight at the outlet for the filter/pump, getting blown about by it and going back for more…. I have adrenalin junky goldfish!!!!!

Only in the Berisford household…..

Saturday 15 oct o5

Got 2 goldfish (plus everything that goes with them!
plaster casting
painting finished casts
read Hop and Pop (tandem reading)
1 chapter Prince Caspian
1 of 5 true dog stories (zzzz)
Viking clothing
Ergemiers - Joshua takes over from Moses
Puffin utterly brill poetry - several pages

I also cleaned 2 very grotty Kenwood Chefs dontated by MIL as I am obviously now considered domesticated enough to need one……

Hop and Pop

Not many months ago she was quite adamant that she hated Dr Seuss. Now she can’t get enough!!! We “tandem read” Hop and Pop today, the whole thing in one go!

Scuse me whilst I have a puffed up chest, proud mummy moment….

And so it begins….

she has 2 goldfish…. her first pets… she is hopelessly excited about them, sat watching them for the entire afternoon did almost the entire tank set up herself….

next it’s guinea pigs then hopefully next year it’s hens…. I think 6 pets should be enough don’t you?

New Password

There is going to be a new password for any sensitive posts as I have concerns that the current one is in the hands of someone who i don’t want to read my most private thoughts.

I will be changing the password on previous posts to reflect this as this should prevent someone regaining access to posts I passworded to keep them out of in the first place. The damage may be done but this keeps them from returning for another kick.

E-mail me if you want it but please forgive me, I am only sending it to people who I know in the flesh, that way I know you are who you say you are. Not a nice reflection on life.

To whoever this concerns

You know who you are, I know who you are and since you ahve commented about a passworded post it seems you may have access to the 1 and only group where I posted that password. It is a group for the parents or carers of under 8s who home educate and as far as I am aware that does not mean you. I hope you leave the rest of my friends alone, some of them are not so thick skinned as me.

This is my final word on you, to you.

You may well not have been my original pest who was posting offensive comments on another blog. I cannot prove one way or the other on that. I have never said that you were the author of those comments, I do not make unfounded accusations. I merely moved the blog somewhere taht comments could be moderated and posts could be passworded if they contained sensitive information. That is a non-agressive way to actively deal with CyberPests of all kinds. However your actions recently ARE the actions of someone who I do not wish to associate with. If that means I have two people who want to take up my time and bandwidth with nonsense then so be it.

Repeated mails containing threats are not something I will respond to by meakly bowing to your demands of an apology. I will respond to them by hitting the delete key. I am quite proficient with the delete key and with this blog have the ability to moderate comments before they appear. Copying chunks of searched data about me into mails does not incline me to think of you as inocent, merely taht you know how to find me (and have spent time tracking my movements) over the web. Telling me that, were you able, you would phone me and tell me just what you think of me does not make me think of you as inocent. It is called threatening behaviour and I chose to take an actively non-threatening response to it by “walking away” in the same was as I have walked away from real life verbal abuse on any number of occaisions. You see I’m not some meek and mild little housewife who will scuttle into a corner and cower when shouted at. I am someone who will actively choose to either walk away or, if needs be, stand my ground and fight.

An anonymous comment had been left via my blog, by you or by someone else I do not know, it said

“hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful”

Please honour that and cease trying to hurt me and my family by repeated agressive messages. Merely act as I do and, by ignoring tantrums as one would do for a child, allow the storm to pass. We will never be friends, reconciliation is not going to happen, I am not going to apologise for accusations I have not made, close the book on “us” and spend your time with those who do wish your attention.