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Today at lunchtime I went to a park about 10 minutes from work. I thought that it might look nice in the snow and I’d heard there were some deer wandering around. Little did I know that I would end up in the middle of a herd! There were about 30 of them of various breeds and I could get to within about 20 feet of them. As I didn’t have a jacket with me I didn’t stay long but managed to get a few snaps – no long lens and mediocre shots but what an experience.

There are two more on the following link….

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Brrrrrrrrrr – there’s a couple more if you click on the link below

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I love Vic

She called this morning to say it was snowing heavily at home and so I asked her to take some photo’s with my digital SLR. The problem with this is she had to put the thing together first and she had never done this before – she’s never used an SLR before and thinks that my strong interest in photography borders on the obsessive at times. She had to get the batteries off the charger, insert the batteries, attach the right lens, find the memory card, insert the memory card, switch it on, choose the right mode and then (at last) take some photo’s! She did all this under my instructions over the phone and everything went OK.

But that’s not what made me all gooey.

As she was looking out the window though the viewfinder she asked me Do I have to do anything with the exposure because of all the white snow?

Bless her little cotton socks

I’m at work and it’s bucketing down with snow! YAY! This is proper snow – not the crap stuff we had yesterday. It’s not supposed to last long but it’s falling pretty heavily and we should get a few inches over the next couple of hours. I left my camera at home though 🙁 I’ll have a go with my PDA and see how they turn out……….

Update: see, and it’s still going…..

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Two days with no access to the site and it seems that so much has happened! Boring for the rest of the world but interesting/exciting for us.

1) As mentioned previously we had our antenatal class on Monday. 7 straight hours of information relating to childbirth! There’s not much to say about it except for the one major fact that I learnt: If Vic has to ask “Am I in labour?” then she’s not lol! The one thing that I was worried about was knowing when we should go to hospital – after the class I feel a lot more comfortable with that bit of it.

2) It snowed yesterday! We very rarely get snow that hangs around for any length of time in London but yesterday it lasted until about lunchtime – pictures to follow (they’re on my PC at home) People that actually get snow regularly will think it’s pathetic though

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Hmmmm. I’ve been having major problems with this site over the last few days. Whenever I visited http://www.marcandvic.com I was redirected to some holding site with about a gazillion popups!

After discussions with my host it seems that their automated renewal system wasn’t working as expected hence the “domain expired” message. It all seems OK at the moment but I’ll keep an eye on it none the less.

Anyone else have the same problem?

Update: It seems that DNS servers around the world have taken a while to synch. I was getting the “domain expired” message about 80% of the time 🙁 but haven’t had it for the last couple of hours.

Sunday night sitting in front of the TV watching The Browns vs The Steelers and The 49ers vs The Giants (some of y’all might understand what I’m talking about ) The first game has just finished, the second about to start and my belly is full of curry – ahhhhhhhhhhhh

We have our one and only “parentcraft” class tomorrow (ante-natal to everyone) The midwives and doctors were crap at booking it and so here we are, two weeks from the due date and only just now getting to go to it! They used to have them spread throughout a couple of months but now just have a 7 hour “tell ‘em everything” day which, IMO, is a good idea. Am I looking forward to it? I guess so, if nothing else it will give me an idea of where to take Vic! We have seen so many baby and birth related programes on Discovery Health that I feel like we’ve undergone loads of training already.

Vic is getting more tired and uncomfortable as the days go by. The books say that she’ll be a real witch from now until the birth and she has a) warned me of this and b) is living up to it! The strange thing is that she’s normally a very relaxed, happy person so this is all a bit new! All I have to do is remember not to disagree with her on anything, no matter how small and to look after her………… She’s not that bad really

And now for something that I totally forgot about until Vic mentioned it – it’s our second wedding anniversary tommorrow!

Vic: What are doing tommorow?

Me: Going to parentcraft class!

Vic: No, in the evening

Me: I dunno – why?

Vic: It’s our wedding anniversary!

Me: D’oh!!!!!!!

I must admit, with the baby being so close I genuinely forgot all about it 🙁 Vic hasn’t done/bought me anything but at least she remembered…….

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The other day we bought a travel cot for Fidget and today we got around to putting it up for the first time. It is very cool and should be handy for when we go away……

If you want to you can have a look by clicking on the link below (approx 120KB)

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