iPhone Charger Fault
Originally uploaded by Beebop Alula
Only had my iPhone a week and the charger's goosed!
Let's just hope it's a one off and I'm not being punished for years of allegiance to everything PC!!
It's the USB converter part of the charger that's not working. Thankfully I can still charge it via the laptop or using my wife's charger :o)
Apple have said a replacement part will be with me by Tuesday....
One thing's for sure - Abigail certainly isn't a baby any more. Apart from looking very grown up she's becoming extremely strong willed and seems to have a never ending source of energy!
Although I haven't posted much on here lately, I have continued to post flickr photos of Aboo whenever possible.
We took her to 'Bounce' on Sunday morning - a local indoor childrens activity centre, and because we were there quite early, Abigail had free run of the place!
No ride or climbing frame seemed to be too big for her, and she just wanted to try them all. Yet there's other times when she can be scared of the strangest little things - kids are just weird!
Although Abigail is fine for short journeys around town, she tends to get bored and quite ratty if we're in the car too long. I bought a portable DVD Player a few years back for this exact situation - see how confident I was that we'd be starting a family, Lol! So I tried her with the player and some of her programs in the car at the weekend and she seems to love it :o)
It's hilarious when I'm driving and I look over my shoulder to see her dancing away to the Backyardigans songs!
Morpeth has been all over the news the last few days because of the devastation caused by the floods. The above picture (click to enlarge) on the right was taken about a week ago when me and Jen took Abigail to feed the ducks and for a walk along the river. The picture on the left is from one of the BBC news videos, and by my reckoning we were standing about where the red dot is!!
There's actually a path under the bridge which is hard to believe when you look at the height the water had risen to.
I work in Morpeth and when I left there on Friday I had no idea of what was about to happen to the place. Strangely enough we were actually out drinking in Morpeth with friends on Friday night, which must have been less than 9 hours before the river burst it's banks!
We crossed one of the bridges whilst running between pubs (due to the rain!) and I remember pointing out how fast the river seemed, but of course with drink on board I didn't think much of it.
It's been more than 40 years since Morpeth last had a major flood. Just makes me wonder how much the place is going to change as a result of this weekend....
After 6 weeks of using 'Cruisers' until she was comfortable walking properly, it was time yesterday to take Abigail for her first pair of decent walking shoes. Some thing's haven't changed from when I was a bairn, in that 'Clarks' is still seen as the place to go.
Hardest part seemed to be finding a pair with a proper buckle. Erm hello! -what's the point of Velcro on babies shoes?! Surely it obvious they'll just constantly take them off. Or at least Abigail would!
Anyway we got there in the end, and the staff pulled out a Polaroid camera (never seen one of them in a while!) to make a presentation card of the occasion....
Having a whale of a time in Mothercare breaking in the shoes..!
Normally I get absolutely no where with them and just walk away about a fiver out of pocket. On that occasion I was lucky and Abigail got a cute little Dog which has now been aptly named 'Tara' after the Craig Tara caravan park.
Anyhoo, I came across this video this morning and realise that's the way to do it! This must be every kids dream....!
http://view.break.com/536276
Abigail is on the move! She's gone from 2 steps on Tuesday to this earlier on tonight;
The photo's are from two different cameras - mine and my Dads, and the difference in quality between the Digital and Digital SLR is massive in some shots! Details on the bottom right of each photo screen;
