Amykate

Fine. London is pretty :-)

My elderly parents are clearing out and cruely making me take all my stuff O left in their house when I moved into my own perfectly functioning home 20 years ago. Today... a winzip cdrom from CeBit 2002.... because of course younger me kept that!

Imagine a room full of games and 150+ media & content creators. Where every game is visible by design. Media & Content Creator sign-up: pressengine.link/preshow-regi... Welcome to The Pre-Show: thepre.show

New rule, the audience vote one of their number who boos the judges the most in to take on a dance...

Woke up, booted up #dreamlightValley on thr rog and... my cloud save from thr PC hadn't synced. Had I lost hiurs of game play? Worse... my storage room re-org had all been reset!!!! Nooooo. It's ok, I got out of bed and re-synced from thr PC but I'm sure fellow organisers will understand the pain ;)

This chap, hello Cach, is going to make us cry when it comes to the waltz. #strictly

I'm loving this! #strictly - do I know anything about dance? God no! Do I put forth opinions? Hell yeah! But wow, they have all done amazing :-)

Screw the dancing, Shirley's pen matches her dress!!!! #strictly

The 7 year old needed to do a poster for school homework. I introduced him to word art. The 90s are alive and well - take that AI posters!

Today's favourite copilot prompt. "Make this spreadsheet tab look snazzy, using the company branding from our website" We live in a world were AI understands "snazzy", I don't know how I feel about this.

Ah disneyland, where everyone walks aroubd with lanyards and a schedule - who would have expected mankind to present corporate life as fun?

Dear lord, 31 degrees?! Why am I in a theme park? Why am I outside? What is happening with my life?!

I'm english, I'm not built for 28 degrees!!!!

Love that chain mail / armour is in this year. Bedazzel Your Pauldrons you glorious Europeans you x

Come on uk... you got this x

#eurovision2026 - or, let's give the 7 year old nightmares... I do actually like the Bulgaria song but that was creepy.

Off to see the Super Mario movie shortly. I had a game gear growing up, never really played any of the Mario games and I still have a headache... oh the things we do for our children :-) if I *was* going to deep dive into the Mario world - where should I start?

The cat has a complaint, my new work laptop box isnt sittable in. Sorry Pennycat...

Our local costco has unleaded fuel for 140p. The queue was back 3 roundabouts and about 30 mins. The sneaky back way queue was still 11 mins. Not smug that I filled up last week as I was still stuck in it just for a food stock up. But yeah...

Today was the first day in about 6 months (ok, 5 days) when I wasn't dying of the worst headache ever. So, as its easter holidays and I have 2 hungry beings in the house, I went to Costco at the weekend. Holy mother of God and the donkey she rode in on So Many People. ... I bought snacks.

Wait, I can't loll about in my pj's all day, the offspring have a haircut at noon. Eldest doesnt mind but would prefer to stay at home in their pjs, youngest really doesnt like haircuts so will need to be negotiated with. I'm on day 3 of an almost migraine so I'm afraid donuts bribery will be used

Today I need to be productive, or i could play dreamlight valley... but the offspring need sustenance so a supply run is required but... they could just eat crisps and oranges, that sounds ballanced right...

So what shenanigans shall we get up to this weekend?

My brain has been playing Faith of the Heart at me non stop since leaving the science museum. You know what, im not even mad. #startrek

Off to the science museum for the star trek late :-) my nerd flag flying high

The youngest offspring is doing lego on the floor singing the portal end credits song... maybe im doing something right? #parenting

Well the "baby" turns 7 today, we have had cake for breakfast. Would recommend :-)

I have mini muffins in the oven. The mini muffin pan was from temu though so this may end very badly...

Rain? Ugh

OK, its cold, youre back at work, its all a bit grim BUT brand new star trek this month :-) #startrek

Just because we're back at work doesnt mean we're not eating cheese all the time. Right?

38 minutes past 8 on the first day back at work and I've already had to correct a 25 to a 26. Its going so well #takemebacktochristmas

Move the Christmas tree and you expect to find some fallen baubles. Us? A triangle of toast...

You know when you spot clean a carpet and then realise how dirty the non-stained rest is and now you have this glaring clean patch and the whole rest of the carpet looks terrible rather than the 3 inch square stain you had before? That...

First cup of tea of 2026 has been drunk. Let's start as we mean to go on. Let's do this! #tea

Thats a beautiful woman who didnt sparkle there. The costume was lovely but... I dont know, that wasn't stunning - but what so I know! Still love Amber but was something off there? No dancing knowledge here so might have been amazing! Still bloody watchable! #strictly

Well done Amber, that was lovely. I prefer a more ... spikey paso but that was glam and feminine but powerful #strictly

Let's do this! Anyone emosh yet? #strictly

Its #strictly final time!!! Mulled wine for me

I'm in charge tonight, hubby is acting daaaarrrrrling, let's chaos ensue!

I am so bad at knowing what's good :-) several years of watching this program and Im still clueless :-) #strictly

I know Karen is, by definition, a proffesional team player but I LOVE how she is doing strictly as a team game, its perfection #strictly

Well this is glorious! #strictly

People. I've messed up. Badly. The 9 year old's introduction to Leonard Nimoy wasn't Mr Spock... it was The Ballad of Bilbo Bagins. I've ruined him for life haven't I? #startrek #lotr #parenting

That was fantastic, loved how Carlos stepped back and let her go for it. He's just so brilliant it says something when we were watching Karen the whole time #strictly

Lovely quick step but what was the random crab / dog scampering bit?! #strictly