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Says it all, I think!

"After weeks of advance hoopla trumpeting the opening of London’s Heathrow Airport new, high-tech Terminal 5, the facility opened in something less than glory. Initially, British Airways, which has sole use of the $8.7 billion terminal, boasted to customers that “everything has been streamlined and designed to make your journey through the terminal calm and relaxed.” But after a series of baggage delays in the morning, the airline canceled 34 flights and suspended baggage check-in. By late afternoon, the airline acknowledged that the opening day had been marred by problems with “car parking provision,” “delays in staff security screening” and “baggage performance issues.”"

I don't wanna:

- go to the supermarket
- do dishes
- clean the kitchen
- cook dinner

I gotta:

- go to the supermarket
- do dishes
- clean the kitchen
- cook dinner.

Ooops. Hmph.

Aliza's at the tail end of her cold. She still has a nasty cough and is very clingy. Shame I'll have to take her out in the rain (one of the reasons I don't want to go to the supermarket... but if I don't go, there's no dinner).

I'm letting Aliza watch "In the Night Garden" on CBeebies. (Same people who did Teletubbies, may God save my soul.) She actually pays attention for more than 5 minutes to some of the programs (this is her usual maximum).

on the one hand, I'm happy that she normally regards TV as background noise; on the other, I'm worried that she can be held rapt by it...

I should have just held on to the "no TV till 2" rule. No TV specially for her, anyway.

Oh, and I let her have half a cupcake this weekend. (That was after she grabbed part of mine the day before.) I'm still relatively food-nazi-ish (not that I think sugar is the Debil, and I don't agree with making kids feel deprived--but at this age she doesn't know the difference so I don't feel any guilt about it) but that was a lapse.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/nyregion/28cracker.html?ref=nyregion

(and http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/022808/njManischewitzRunsShort.html - a bit clearer that it is specifically the Pesachdik run affected)

No Pesach Tam Tams this year!! I love Tam Tams. (yes, I know they're matza ashira and I really shouldn't, but yum. Especially Everything Tam Tams.)

I just let her have part of a mini pain au chocolat. Worse, I'd warmed it up. She's now rather messy.

Barnet Hospital closed its doors to women in labour 101 times last year.

And they still want to close/downgrade Chase Farm (the other hospital in the trust). Both Barnet and Enfield are growing in population. Please tell me, where ARE women going to give birth? (Not at home--both PCTs are HB-unfriendly because of staffing. Homebirth takes 2 midwives to one woman. Co nsultant-unit birth is 1 midwife to 2-3 women.)

They've also closed the birth centre at the Central Middlesex, claiming women don't use it (and that they don't want to because it's midwife-only). Amazing, how women in Edgware are fine with just midwives (Edgware birth centre is popular), but not in Park Royal. I'm suspecting 1) steering (GPs/midwives here are bad at explaining birth options) and 2) financial issues at North-West London Hospitals.