Seperated at Birth

Wordy from Look & Read (Means nothing unless you're a school child of the early 80's!)

Abigail's bath time

Better Late Than Never!

Back in December of last year whilst out doing some last minute Christmas shopping we walked past one of those mobile professional photographers in a local shopping centre. We had time to spare, so thought what the hell, and for once Abigail wasn't covered head to toe in baby food!

It's only taken me 3 months to get the resulting photos uploaded!.....blame too much PS3 time and not enough blog time!!!

Can't believe how quickly she's changing at the minute. I'll have to get some recent photos uploaded, along with a video of Abigail's version of crawling...!

Hoody Culture

'Aboo' as she's now come to be known, just at times has bother written all over her face! At the minute, with those two bottom teeth she has the look of a cartoon dog...I just can't decide which one; Gnasher (Dennis the Menace's partner in crime) or an upside down Goofy (the Disney Dog)..!

And so it begins/ends....

Abigail had her first day at Nursery today, which meant it was also Jen's first day back at work and the end of her 9 months Maternity Leave.
Jen's been taking her for introductory days over the last few weeks to get used to the people and new environment etc, so when it came to saying goodbye this morning Jen was kind of accustomed to it. I went along this morning too, and I have to say I found it a lot harder than I expected! Don't get me wrong the nursery is really spot on and I can't fault the place but it just felt really strange saying goodbye for the day - heart wrenching I think is the phrase.
Anyway Abigail had a good day and according to her daily diary/report (!!) they think she'll settle in no bother :o)
Out little girl is growing up...!!

Not Strictly A Concert

Jen is massively into the 'Strictly Come Dancing' series that are now an anual event on BBC1. So when they announced there was to be a tour, she was mad keen to go as you can imagine...!

As a kind of extended Christmas pressie I managed to get us some of the floor side seats - 3 rows from the front when the show came to Newcastle Arena last month. It was certainly the strangest 'gig' I've ever been to and I've just gotten round to putting the photo's online....

Fame Again

I took the photo on the left in September 2006 whilst at the Robbie Williams concert at Hampden Park, Glasgow. It was uploaded to Flickr as with most of my photos and then gradually forgotten about, - or so I thought...


Got an e-mail completely out of the blue from someone at Schmap a few weeks back to say they'd like to use the Hampden Park pic. Schmap basically do online dynamic travel guides and this one was obviously intended for Glasgow. I gave them permission to use the photo as let's be honest by putting it on the web I was leaving it open to be used anyway, and I thought it was actually nice to be asked.


Then just before Christmas they e-mailed again to say thanks for the photo and provided details of where it could be seen online, - HERE. (The page takes a couple of seconds to fully display due to the amount of information on it).


(I chose to display the picture with the name of my flickr alias rather than my real name. Obviously not hard to link the two, but I just to prefer posting on the web that way).

Flawless

We've got a Laminate floor in our living room, which although is ideal when you've got pets and is great for keeping clean - it's not ideal for a growing baby who's trying to crawl and often takes a tumble! I spotted something which looked ideal in a friends flickr pages and then set about sourcing one on eBay.

There are 36 pieces (A-Z and 0-9) and each is 12" square and made of foam. Abigial loves it and we're now a lot more relaxed when she's chucking hereself around the floor! One day she'll even be able to jump around and spell her name on it....