As usual, when I proclaim that this weekend we will spend no money at all, we go out and find something to buy. Perhaps one day I will say "You know what? Spend all the money you can," and I will not come home with anything new. (This is not a good idea.) Thankfully, I didn't buy the bulk of it, and merely adopted the toy as my own: A …

We have purchased a laptop, something Mr C has been talking about and thinking about for way too long now. We looked at one, we walked around a bit, looked at some more, and then went back to the one we first thought of. But either way, I was pretty excited about the new and shininess of it. So, because he would be playing on his new toy for the …

I was going to sit down and think of something intelligent to write, but when I arrived home after a stressful day, Mr C had purchased me the new Zoo Tycoon 2. That’s distracted me for the next century!

What a great day! The sun is out and it's beautiful! I got up this morning and the first thing I did was fling all the windows open to let a non-existent breeze in. I didn't get a lie-in today, I woke up early which was a bit annoying. It did mean that I was up in time to watch Ministry of Mayhem though - my new favourite kids show! …

Lots to say so I'll just get on with it. I've been buying games by the truckload, even though I wasn't really done with the ones I had before. Have now got The Simpsons Hit & Run (very funny), Pirates of The Caribbean game (a little hard to control but I've not given up yet!) and Zoo Tycoon Marine Mania, which is really fun and adds dolphins and jellyfish and …

Friday was an okay day at work. Saturday, I read a lot of The Economist. Sunday, I discovered all the groovy games at the BBC, which I have much fun playing and more importantly, they work on the Mac. But I don't want to go on about the BBC too much because they lost all my Celebdaq shares just because I forgot my password and needed a new one. Not …