I was reminded of a new years party 5 years ago when I rather drunkenly blurted out to Fliss my desire not to be separated from her by geography next time we welcomed in a new year. We hadn’t been together that long and she was visiting Oz for her brothers wedding. Happily I’ve celebrated [...]
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Simple State Machines and Other Things I Have Learnt
We’ve just returned from 3 days at Fliss’ Mum’s house. Although we are still fairly sleep deprived things were made a lot easier by the presence of aunts and grandmothers who offered to take turns tending to the baby. This included one of those rarest of things, time for the two of us spend together [...]
What big eyes you have
We’ve had Ursula at home for over a week now and are slowly getting into the swing of this parenting malarkey. So far we’ve nicknamed her “Trufflehog” after the manner she searches for the breasts when she’s hungry which seems to basically be when she’s awake. We are getting a growing amount of the “Quiet [...]
New Family Unit, Some Assembly Required.
I brought Fliss and Ursula home on Monday morning so we now have a complete family unit at home. We didn’t do much on Monday apart from appreciate being back in the house with all the attendant creature comforts. Tuesday didn’t involve much either but we had both sides of the family visit in the [...]
Light at the end of the tunnel
Ursula is quite possibly the healthiest baby that has ever graced the Special Care Baby Unit at our local hospital. The sequence of events that led us there were more than a little concerning. As we were about to be discharged the midwife observed a leg twitch that didn’t look like the standard myoclonic twitch [...]
Reaching escape velocity
The last few days have been frustrating. Every time we get ready to pack up and come home something comes up. First it was a bout of jaundice which needed seeing to. Now the pediatricians are being abundantly cautious about a twitch she has while she’s asleep. This has extended the sentence by at least [...]
Do the stars shine brighter tonight?
This was my thought as I unpacked the car tonight. It may have been the cold weather and clear skies though, it’s hard to be sure. I’m currently pottering around the house tidying up and preparing to welcome Ursula to the home tomorrow. I suspect my perspective may have altered in the last few days. [...]
Project Veg Patch
I noticed I haven’t posted anything this month about what’s going on in my life. Well as you can imagine the impending arrival of our first child has kind of glossed over everything else. I have not yet achieved a state of panic but it’s very firmly in the radar now. Although I’ve been taking [...]
Saturday evening in New Zealand
A lot of people have made out that having the rugby on in the morning is a bit of a pain for fans. I’ve been quite enjoying the matches so far. The last two weekends Fliss and I have rotated cooking a Canadian style breakfast to go with our morning rugby. This week was my [...]
Weekend Rugby
While last weekend involved a hilarious last minute rush to get a proxied ITV player working while in Paris this weekends England game just involved getting up at 6.50 on a Sunday morning. As some have pointed out I am not yet a Dad so this early awakening on Sunday is an alien concept to [...]
