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It’s Thursday night and the first of four without Vic and Fidget 🙁

They’ve joined Fi and Claire on a girlie shopping trip to the King of Prussia Mall in Philadelphia.  Vic was the only one that took a suitcase I think, the other two are buying luggage out there to transport their purchases A seven hour flight for a shopping trip – it reminds me of the time that my friend Sanjay and I went to Hong Kong to buy whatever took our fancy – the things we do huh ?

Vic took this trip due to me starting my new job. We were going to go on holiday in September but I couldn’t really take time off as soon as I’d started.  She gets a trip and I get a EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Lens – I’m not sure who wins……….

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A week since my last update and only a couple of things to report

The most important is the fact that one of my work colleagues was caught up in the nightclub bombing in Bali. We spoke to him this morning when he arrived back in the UK and he doesn?t sound so good. From the sketchy information we can get it seems he was in or very close to the bar that was hit.  He is deaf in one ear from the explosion (not sure if it is temporary or not) and is pretty shook up. Supposedly he was moving bodies straight after – maybe to help survivors, I’m not sure.

It’s quite strange – I feel this a lot more than September 11th but I’m not sure why though.  I went to Kuta beach about 5 years ago and am pretty sure that I drank in that bar – that can’t be it though because I had been to the WTC only two years ago and my memories of that are a lot fresher.  Maybe it’s because so many antipodeans were involved?  I’m not sure, I’ll have to give it some more thought………

Back to happy things though!

Vic and I had a great weekend On Saturday we went and visited our friends Martin and Helen up in Royal Leamington Spa.  They had a wee girl Meggy quite a while back so it was nice to see how she had grown since Xmas (a lot!) We spent the afternoon with them and then went out for dinner in the middle of town. One very large curry later we staggered back to our hotel and lay on the bed for a while feeling slightly ill

Sunday morning we were up early and off to Warwick Castle for opening time at 10:00.  This is a lovely castle and seems handle visitors well (we got to try on very heavy medieval helmets ) They started building it in the late 11th century and it has grown in size and complexity since then. The weather was very overcast so it wasn’t shown in it’s best light but it was impressive none the less and from there a quick 15 minute drive found in Shakespeare’s birthplace Stratford-on-Avon. This really is a lovely town (even in the rain :() with narrow streets flanked by very old and very wonky buildings. We saw a toy shop that was built in 1493! and took the requisite photo of the actual building that old Billy was born in.  Vic even reckons that she managed to get a shot with no Japanese tourists in!

On to baby things and he/she is being very active at the moment.  So much so that we have started calling him/her “fidget” The good thing with this is that I can talk about Fidget without giving the sex of the baby away

Click on the link for the highlight of my weekend………..

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Well, it’s Thursday already and I can hardly believe it!  The week has gone so fast it’s really not funny.

The craziest day was Tuesday – I left home before 06:00 for a 3.5 hour drive to Birmingham for a meeting. The meeting over, it was a 2.5 hour drive back to the office for another few hours work then another hour and a half in the car to get home just after 20:00…….. 7.5 hours driving during a work day – phew 🙁

I hope everyone’s well out there in the big wide world?

Waking up in my own bed on a Sunday morning – bliss! It’s been 5 weeks since we’ve done that and I’d almost forgotten what it felt like

Vic’s just over 5 months pregnant now and we took a picture to show our mothers.  Click on the link below to see her in all her pregnantness :vbg:

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God – I am absolutely knackered 🙁  This whole driving and working lark is killing me! I get home at about 19:00 and have no energy left at all………. hopefully my body and mind will get used to it soon (fingers crossed!)

Thoughts on my last 5 days:

? Last weekend was spent up in Colchester and this weekend it was Janet, Vic’s Mum’s, turn to travel home. The usual – dinner and drinking on Saturday night and then it was off to the Airport in time to drop her off for her 16:00 flight.  Since then we’ve had a call to say that she got home OK and was feeling pretty good after her 36 hour trip.

? The bump is really starting to have an impact on things now. Vic’s finding it harder to move, the bump’s really getting active (I feel it at least once a day :vbg: ) and her belly button is getting really shallow!

? My previous employers are getting shafted by my previous, previous employers over a deal that we did which unfortunately has a direct financial impact on me 🙁  It’s a real bummer as we could do with all the money we can get our hands on………..

That’s about it – thanks to all those people still visiting (almost 5000 hit’s now!) and I totally understand that it’s not interesting enough to comment on (except Bekah )

It’s 21:30 and I’m off to bed…………………………

Hi folks!   Long time no speak!

It’s Thursday night and at last I’ve found time to do a proper(ish) entry about my week so far…..

As you may know I started a new job on Monday at Real Solutions. I was up at 05:30 for the 5 hour drive to the head office of my new company in Hale, just South of Manchester, where I was to spend the week.  The drive up there was uneventful as was the first afternoon when all I really did was meet my boss and pick up my laptop (which was not going to work until I got back down to London anyway!)

The funny thing is I lost a filling whilst eating dinner on Monday night and had to call my new boss early on Tuesday morning to tell him that I would be in late! lol!  Tuesday was also good as I found out that I wouldn’t have to spend the week up north and could drive home that night and spend the rest of the week at home and working normal office. yay!

Wednesday found me in the office and meeting all the people that I’ll be working with on a day to day basis and I’m pleased to report that they seem like a nice enough bunch

I must say that it’s very strange but very nice to be back in an office environment after 4 months unemployment and 10 months working from home……… The drive each way is about 90 minutes and although this goes very quickly, this mixed with “normal” working hours is finding me absolutely shattered by the time I get home :zoink:

To all those people I usually visit – sorry I haven’t come around for a while but I really don’t have the time or energy to make comments. I am visiting when I can but it’s mostly furtive reading at work and I don’t really want to get caught commenting (just yet anyway )

Here’s a copy of our 20 week scan.  It’s not the best but you should be able to make out the face looking straight at you in the top left-hand corner. It’s such a crap scan ‘cos the little bugger just wouldn’t stop moving!

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