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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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 [...]
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. [...]
Not a creature stirring….
As the sun rises on a clear blue boxing day morning my body ponders what to do with the excess calories of yesterdays toughing. After so many years of the Bennee clan together with occasional grand-parental input we are now entering a new phase of the Christmas dynamic as the extended grouping of Bennee’s and [...]
Shout out to my bro
Please join me in wishing my brother a happy birthday. I’ll take the oppertunity to pimp his photo blog which people with an interest in photography and photoshop might find quite interesting.
So that was Christmas
You’ll have to excuse the radio silence since my last post. The run-up to Christmas was a rush to ship the next version of the product to the testing team for next year. This wasn’t helped by a whole day being taken up with the company Chrimbo do for clay pigeon shooting and lunch in [...]
