Just for Jay here’s a picture of the house taken today. The roof is 90% on and some of the windows are even in! The more complete it looks the more exciting it is…….. the only problem is that once it is closed in we have to pay the next 65% of the value 🙁
I’ve just got back from 3 days in Auckland – the middle day to play golf at Gulf Harbour – tough life 
Thanks to all those that commented or called about Max’s wee scare. He seems to be over it now and the mark is almost gone.
And here’s the usual picture of the house – they’ve started putting the roof on!
We had such a scare with Max yesterday!
He has roman blinds in his room and we had moved his cot away from the side that has the pull string so that he wouldn’t play with it while he was in his cot. Sensible we thought……
Yesterday we put him down for his nap and went about our business. I was downstairs and Vic was just about to hop in the shower when she heard a funny noise from his room. She went in and found him with a string wrapped around his neck and his eyes bulging!!!
Somehow he had got the string that was built into the blind wrapped around his neck and then he’d pulled away and tightened it around his neck. He’d pulled it so tight that he still has a raised red mark around his neck more than 24 hours later.
Very scary and whenever I look at his neck it sends shudders down my spine thinking about how close we came to possibly losing him……..
The house now has roof trusses and is really starting to look like a house instead of a pile of wood 
I am so sore (and such a pussy!) I spent the day at Mum’s place helping her paint the outside of her house and most of the 5-6 hours was spent painting above my head………
The cool thing is that Vic came for a while and bought Max. While they were there they popped around to the local shop. It’s only about 300 yards away so we thought that Max might like a walk We’ve bought him some little reins to keep some sort of control over him when he’s walking and he walked all the way there and back!! He’s only 14 months old so it must have been quite a trek for his little legs
Don’t be surprised if this site disappears for a while. I’ve just requested the transfer of the domain to my godaddy account so I have more control over it. Given the track history with this kind of thing from the current host of this domain nothing would surprise me………
At last I have aboutlight.com up and running!
I decided on a photoblog and although there’s not much on there at the moment it will become populated over time
I just got an email from a friend in the UK to say that another friend of mine, Jamie Sessions, was killed in a hit and run over the weekend 🙁
Jamie and I worked together for almost 4 years in the UK and my trip to New York was taken with him. We stayed with some good friends of his, Hugo and Megan, and if they read this then all I can say is “bloody hell” The strange thing is that he’d contacted me a month or so ago and we had been in regular contact again.
See ya Jamie.