Oct 30
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) News
At last I’m back!
The time has just flown but it’s been life/work as usual except for the following:
• Elliot’s second tooth came through while I was in Sydney
• The main reason for no update last weekend was that I spent a huge chunk of it putting up my new garden shed. Timber framed and sheet steel clad it’s a good reason to get rid of tons of crap out of the garage.
• Max seems to have taken some steps back in his toilet training and is having quite a few accidents. I may have been an attention getting thing while I was away and he seems to have got better since yesterday but we shall wait and see…..
• At 94 my Great Aunt Bet passed away – again while I was in Sydney. Not a bad innings and she had been mentally frail for some time. She’s the last of that generation in my family so an era really has passed
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Oct 20
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Max
Let’s just say that Max is getting a little cake today 
Well done that man!
Oct 19
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Max
I made a deal with Max a couple of days ago
He had been dry through the night for a couple of nights so I said that we would put a star on the calendar each night that he was dry and that when he made it to five in a row I would buy him a cake
He’s done four in a row right now and is looking forward to his cake…… we’ll see 
Oct 19
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Elliot
Just a quick note to let y’all know that Elliot’s first tooth came through last night!
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Oct 19
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
I’ve had an absolutely stinking cold for the last 5 days and it’s starting to annoy me. If it was a normal week coming up I wouldn’t be so worried but this is what my next nine days are like:
Thursday: Normal work day
Friday: Get up at 03:00, leave home at 04:00 to drive to the airport and catch a 06:30 flight to Sydney, spend the day hosting a customer who is travelling to Sydney for a storage demo, catch the 17:15 flight back, land at 23:40, get home about 00:30
Saturday: Weekend
Sunday: Weekend
Monday: Public holiday – much yayness!
Tuesday: Work the morning and then a get a cab to the airport for a 15:30 flight to……Sydney!
Wednesday: Training
Thursday: Training
Friday: Training then cab back to Sydney airpot, catch the 17:15 flight back, land at 23:40, get home about 00:30
My cold had better go at some point during this……
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Oct 15
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Elliot, Max, News
For the most part Max and Elliot get on OK. Elliot adores Max and he’ll follow him with his eyes all day. Max, on the other hand, can take or leave his little brother I think At times he loves him to bits (but doesn’t realise he’s much bigger) and at other times he’s just a jealous, attention craving monster – which I think is normal
Here they are showing each other some brotherly love.
Oct 07
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Ramblings
I was writing a custom 404 page for this site and thought I’d have a look around our old joint site while I was poking around.
There’s no blog data but the photo album makes for interesting viewing. There are digital photos there that are seven years old and in looking through them I had a couple of thoughts…. The first was that I really over-sharpened my photos in the early days and the second was that I was really into panoramas Ahh – I miss the days of spare time……
Here’s a “recent” one – only three years old
Oct 02
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Max
I know, I know another entry relating to Max’s bowel movements but hey, it’s a big part of our lives (sad I know!)
He’s done so well over the last four days with the only “accidents” happening when he’s been out and in pull ups – so no mess to clean up The other night he also woke up at about 10pm and asked to go to the toilet which was a good sign. All and all he’s been fantastic so yesterday I went out and bought him a present to show how proud we were of him and I had planned on giving it to him today.
What made giving all the better was the fact that he had his first dry night last night! yay Max! I put him to bed about 7 and about 10 he woke up and cried out that he wanted to go to the toilet so I got up, took his nappy off him and let him go. Back off to bed he went and the next thing you know he’s taking himself to the bathroom at 6 this morning. I went in to make sure he was OK and gave him a hand with his nappy and it was completely dry! An 8 hour stretch was pretty good I reckon.
Does the pride in my little boy come across ?