Archive for March, 2007

Have bump will travel

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

The next 4 weeks coming up are certainly seeing the bump and me getting around quite a bit. Two international trips in a month — all very exciting!

The first trip coming up is to New York, and I’m leaving tomorrow night!
This one came about because Tom’s calendar is just manic for March and April [...]

Touristing in London

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Once you actually live in a place, it’s not that often that you get a chance to see it through tourist eyes again. But for 3 days last week, I got to join my sister and her fiancé (Coffee and Bob as their internet buddies know them), in seeing the sights of London…

They were [...]

Kitchen – the final comparison

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

As you’ll know, if you’ve been following this blog, the kitchen was completed several weeks ago. Way back when it started, I posted some pictures of the old kitchen and an “artistic impression” of the new kitchen. Now we can finally compare old, artistic impression and final result:
Old:

Artistic impression:

Final result:

I think you’ll agree [...]

5 months and counting

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

We passed the 5 month mark last week… Just another four to go till our little guy is officially due. Wow.
5 months sounds like a long time, but it seems like it’s gone quite quickly. I suppose because all the real progress has probably been in the last 4 weeks or so.
I feel [...]

Cleaning up and moving in

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

All the free time of the last two weekends has been pretty much fully consumed with moving into our new kitchen. [Final handover was Monday after they got through the last items on the snag-list.]
It’s been a multi-faceted operation, firstly cleaning every nook and cranny to get rid of the builders’ dust, then [...]

Second scan

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

09:54 this morning saw us bright-faced and cheery in the queue at the reception of the ultrasound department at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital. 09:55 saw us being cross with ourselves for confusing appointments and subsequently being 15 minutes late for our 09:40 scan.
Fortunately the mix-up didn’t cost significantly and we were soon seen by a friendly [...]