In trouble

It's a good thing that I'm not scared of spiders. Moths are the only things which freak me out, those big bodied flutterings really scare me and I hate butterfly houses. There is a huntsman spider the size of a saucer in our shower. I have a big french porcelain breakfast cup which I use for coffee. This spider's legs would overhang the ledge, so until I can find a big enough receptacle to put over him and then slide a piece of card underneath, he is calling the shower home. It has been very cold and rained a lot in the last 36 hours. My children would love it if it snowed and reminded me that I promised them we would spend christmas 2005 somewhere snowy. Switzerland maybe? Work was surprisingly good this week. I remembered why I liked what I do and I do like the end of quarter buzz of trying to pull things together. Today was busy routine of girls' activities. I went to Pilates which was soothing and then looked after baby Y while P went to her class. He was a perfect baby, sat next to Miss S while she played on the computer, chased the cats around and played with Miss I. When he got tired, I put on the Clash and he drank a bottle listening to the Guns of Brixton. He fell asleep and Miss I asked me, "how can he sleep with that on?" but Itold her babies are more likely to wake up when the noise stops. Tonight I made meatballs with tomato sauce and spaghettini for the girls and I ate grilled aubergine with mint and haloumi cheese. My father called just as I sat down to eat. He is thinking of meeting me in California in Sept when i am there with the girls. We talked about Yosemite and the Monterey acquarium. He is talking about doing this trip as well as coming out to Australia for Christmas. And he wants to visit Cape Town on his way to Australia. At 80 he seems determined to do all these things before it is too late. He says he goes to too many funerals of people where the conversation revolves around things left undone.

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[kitschenette]

that picture is intriguing....but when i click on it the actual picture is too big for the screen and i can only see part of the top left hand corner (perhaps the image needs re-sizing?) - is it you? or one of yr daughters?

switzerland is not often snowy at christmas, unfortunately. apparently 20 or 30 years ago ths was very different and you could count on there being metres of snow in december. now, chrissy tends to be wet and slushy unless by some miracle fortuitous weather conditions occur. jan - feb is more reliable for snow.

[kitschenette]

what am i saying? i'm talking about where we live, near the lake of zürich. the lake keeps things warmer than in the mountains, that's why there isn't much snow around at christmas. of course there will be plenty of snow in the mountains! and if you should come to CH, let me know!

[kitschenette]

umm, i'm no whizz on this sort of thing but the problem doesn't seem to be the size of the thumbnail (typepad gives you the option of resizing the thumbnail rather than the pop-up window image, i think).
i think you need to re-size the actual image before you upload it. do you have photoshop? i usually re-size mine there to a width of about 350 pixels.
i'm not sure if this is helpful but please persist, because i do so like seeing yr pics - even if they are of gruesome spiders!