Snow Day!

At last sledging. Shame all the snow is now gone. Here is my eldest (bottom left) and my youngest (the dot top right).

We even made an igloo (of sorts).

Big Boot

We've found we can get a sofa in our new car.

Lambtastic

Our eldest feeding a lamb at my brother and sister-in-law's neighbour's farm. We nearly got to see one being born. But it didn't come out in time.

Busy Month

March has been a busy month. My job has had me whizzing around the country upgrading customers to the latest version of software for changes that need to be implemented imminently. Examples of places I have had the pleasure of being are: Rotherham, Wakefield, Halifax, Leeds, Manchester, Havant, Redhill and Blackburn. We also managed to fit in a visit to a friend near Bolton and my brother and his wife near Wrexham. Phew.

As part of this experience I have stayed in many Premier Inns. (I am disappointed to note that the plastic duck shown in the adverts is not supplied). This is weird as although all the hotels are in different places the rooms are generally nearly identical - causing confusion on waking.

New Camera - Smile

The camera to replace the one that has been stolen has finally arrived. It's quite nice - a bit smaller than the old one and with a few more features. One such is a feature where the camera will wait until people smile before it takes a photo. Why?

Bop It

I got 47 (or was it 44) on bop it earlier this week. Beat that!

Chicken Counting and Frying Pans

It seems, from the frantic packing, that our neighbours may be moving. These neighbours have been the bane of our lives for years with their noisy disregard of us. We are just praying that the replacement neighbours are better than this and we are not out of the frying pan and into the fire.

New Car

We've had our new car for over a week now and I still look forward to going for a drive in it. It's shiny, clean, has slidy doors and is really nice to drive. It's a Mazda-5 and like it lots. I'll post a picture when I get around to taking one.

Museum Trip

We went to the science and natural history museums. We drove down and parked in Imperial college behind the museum, took sandwiches and had a great day.

Spot the Baby

We were playing with TuxPaint (a fantastic, easy to use, drawing program for children) and made a stamp of a photo of our youngest and this is the result:

Budding Architect

Our eldest made this house out of paper and sellotape. I think it is amazing.

Mind you, it explains why we never have any sellotape when we want some. She also has been chosen as this term's class representative on the school council - which makes us pleased and proud. Both because it seems to have given her a boost and because it shows that she is popular with her peers.

Facial lesions

Our eldest really should exfoiliate more often.

Amazing bible facts.

Amazing bible fact: China - the world's biggest supplier of bibles!

All ages

We had a service at church today to which all the different age groups went. Normally anyone under the age of 18 is off doing fun things relevant to their age group whilst the adults stay in their own group in the main hall. The service was good but our children are not used to sitting in that environment for that long and so were quite fidgety towards the end. It's hard to know what the solution is. Do we make these services so child friendly that they stop being relevant to the adults that come, do those with children stop going so that their lives are made easier or do we persevere and help our children learn the invaluable life skill of listening, or at least appearing to be listening, or at least not stopping anyone else from listening?

Personally I think the perseverance approach might be the best or we may well end up with a generation of people who only go to church because it entertains them and not to worship God.

Shopping

We went shopping today. It was great.

No Snow

Well yesterday was a bit disappointing. The weather forecast people had been warning of snow. But did any land near us? NO! I thought that I might finally have had a use for my embarrassingly large car. Perhaps later in the month...

Here is a picture of my car in the snow that fell last year (when none was forecast):

Slight Nausea

First day back at work this year and I have slight nausea. I'm not sure if I have a mild form of the norovirus but if I have I'll know when all my colleagues report back from a weekend spent on the loo. I don't think it is from over indulging, I did indulge over Christmas but I don't think I over indulged.

Last Day

It's the last day of the holidays today. It has been fantastic to spend time off with my wife and children. Especially at this time of year when there are presents to open, dvds to watch, food to eat and decorations to take our minds off the long cold nights

First Day

The first day of the new year. What will this year hold? Will our noisy, defrauding neighbours finally move? Will we manage to sell our Zafira? Will we have as nice as holidays as last year? Will my new job continue to be great? Will our eldest continue to flourish at her new school? Will our youngest give up his dummy? Will all the needles fall off the Christmas tree before we take it down?

Who knows? - here's to a happy new year to all our readers.

Middle Aged

Is this the start of middle age? I have got a personal trimmer as a Christmas present. It may be true that I have a slight nasal and ear hair growth problem but I can still handle it by pulling them out individually.

By the way how do you pronounce the name of the brand Tchibo? Is it Ch-eye-bow, Chee-bow or Ch-i-bo or something else?