Trying to pose for a photo to give to Great Granny, harder than it looks to get Harry to sit still although this photo is a nice side product.
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Time flies by when you're a ...
Dad sells these overalls for the Festiniog railway staff (of which he is one - a fireman no less), he needed models so naturally Sarah, Alice, Tom and I stepped in. We all felt it was best if Tom was not looking directly at the camera so he was allocated the hi vis vest. You can order you very own set of genuine railway-mans gear by contacting dad - let me know if you want some. Reasonable prices and all gear fully guaranteed.
Stock loads of presents
Owen opening his stocking, he got a couple of toy cars and a ball along with the obligatory chocolate coins. He didn't really get it but seemed quite happy to keep opening presents!
Monday, 24 December 2007
RSS's
I just realised you can RSS feed on these blogs - handy. So to kick matters off I have set up one for Urban Dictionary. Its on the right hand side and will give the top five words. If you havn't been on the site its well worth a browse to kill soe tie at work. Pleasingly I texted Sarah (sister) and ended with "word to your mother" in a hip hop stylee, and she thought that it meant she needed to urgently phone home and speak to mum, she phoned... I laughed.
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Sports tour scores
As regular readers will know Mark Grew and I are undertaking a life defining series of events - a sports tour of Coventry. So far we have made two, a rugby game and an Ice Hockey game. The good news is that the scores are in:
The scoring categories are as follows:
Refreshments
Transport
Merchandising
Quality of game
Entertaining Extras
Value for money
Springfield Factor
Fellow Spectators
Each category gives a score out of five with 5 being outstanding and 1 rubbish, we then square each score and add the results before rooting the total. The overal score could be anything from 7 ish to 13 ish.
The final scores are:
Rugby 8.774964387
Ice Hockey 10.44030651
So this means that the Rugby scored poorly and the hockey well.
The "British Razzel Dazzel" helped the hockey score highly, as did the bloke who shouted "When you were born the doctor gave your mum a smack" to the sin binned Belfast Giants player. Teh large inflatable men helped the rubgy but this was ofset by the 11 hour bus journey to cover 7 meters to get to the stadium - otherwise known as "park and crawl".
The scoring categories are as follows:
Refreshments
Transport
Merchandising
Quality of game
Entertaining Extras
Value for money
Springfield Factor
Fellow Spectators
Each category gives a score out of five with 5 being outstanding and 1 rubbish, we then square each score and add the results before rooting the total. The overal score could be anything from 7 ish to 13 ish.
The final scores are:
Rugby 8.774964387
Ice Hockey 10.44030651
So this means that the Rugby scored poorly and the hockey well.
The "British Razzel Dazzel" helped the hockey score highly, as did the bloke who shouted "When you were born the doctor gave your mum a smack" to the sin binned Belfast Giants player. Teh large inflatable men helped the rubgy but this was ofset by the 11 hour bus journey to cover 7 meters to get to the stadium - otherwise known as "park and crawl".
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Mince Pies
Here's Owen after baking alot of mince pies today. He was enthusiastic if a little heavy handed at the more delicate phases, the bit he found hardest was Delia's enforced 20 min break half way through whilst waiting for the pastry to 'rest' in the fridge. The finished result tastes great but do have a number of finger sized holes in them due to some 'testing' before they went in the oven. (The holes are Owen sized, not me sized)
Nativity by three year olds
Imagine a nativity performed by three year olds with one year olds doing all the songs - mildly silly but according to Catherine quite entertaining. Owen is the one dressed in white in the back row holding his ear and not singing or doing any actions! PS: If you have to find white trousers as part of a "star" costume for a one year old can I advise going straight to the girls section and buying a pair of sparkly white cords with a silver belt rather than wasting ages in lots of different shops realizing that rather unsurprisingly no one makes white trousers for baby boys.
I'd like to teach the world to read
Not content with educating Coventry 6 year olds at work, Becca willing gives up her time for a little paired reading at weekends. She seems a little frustrated at Owens lack of progress, he just keeps wanting to look at the car page and is a little uncertain about sub clauses.
So here it is merry .... (and so on and so forth)
The season of unbridled joy and shopping is upon us. The video player is getting a good work out at school and the tree has put in an appearance at home. Although, I am going to write a strongly worded letter to Home-base due to the slightly miss shapen appearance of our tree. They appear to have done some liberal trimming of the mid section and made it look at best weird and at worst very weird. Still, on the plus side the lights worked straight out of the box with no replacing of bulbs or excessive untangling of cable.
Monday, 10 December 2007
Straight Blazin'
Mark and I are going to be putting our 'fingers in the air and pushing the button four times' on sunday night as we pay a visit to the Westwood sponsored Coventry Blaze. Its part two of our sports tour of Coventry. Part one was the Wasps Munster game at the Ricoh which scored very highly for quality of game, volume of drunk Irish people and size of inflatable men. We await the results of the Ice Hockey outing with baited breath.
Christmas and winter meetings
Our tree is up. Looks good if a little anorexic, homebase (yes, you read that right - no B & Q trees for us now we live on the right side of the tracks, some people say you pay extra, I just think its nearer) decided to trim it down and it looks oddly tall and thin - very space efficient but not very atheistically pleasing.
In other news, the winter meetings went by without any major Red Sox action, annoying as its now been ages and ages of Snantanna talk - I need to know either way as I am getting board of reading idle speculation. Plus if tehy trade Ellsbury I'll have to resign my fanship...
In other news, the winter meetings went by without any major Red Sox action, annoying as its now been ages and ages of Snantanna talk - I need to know either way as I am getting board of reading idle speculation. Plus if tehy trade Ellsbury I'll have to resign my fanship...
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