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Just a quick note to let you know that things will be changing/not working around here for a while. You may have already noticed that the smilies that you type in aren’t replaced by nice graphical ones and that the clickable smilies don’t work at all – cest la vie…….

First of all I updated to pMachine 2.2 and I have also purchased the pro version which will allow me to have multiple weblogs – probably mine, a photolog and I might import our joint weblog as well. 45 USD well spent I hope

In the next wee while I may also take this site back to the defaults so don’t be surprised if you come visiting one day and it all looks boring and strange

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Well it’s the end of another week and I find myself at the PC early on Saturday morning surfing blogland and watching England get absolutely dicked by Oz in the cricket (again!)

I have discovered something within myself this week – an incredibly powerful fear of anything happening to Vic or Fidget!

I was driving home from a meeting in Coventry yesterday listening to talkback radio on BBC Five Live and they were discussing miscarriage and the reaction that western society, the health profession and individuals have to it. As women (and men) were discussing their experiences I found myself experiencing a mixture of quite powerful emotions. These ran from terrible sadness at the loss that these people had suffered through to sheer panic that something should happen to Vic or Fidget.

I was talking to my Mum in NZ this morning about it and she was saying that I have been more emotional about having this baby that anything before in my life. Those people that have known me for a while will know that I’m not a particularly emotional person so this has come as a bit of a pleasant? surprise.

I guess that as most new parents do I’ve entered a new emotional phase in my life.

Just got back from an additional scan today (32 weeks) to check on the position of the placenta.  It was in a low position last time but has moved into the perfect position on it’s own as 90% of them do.

Here’s a picture.

The baby is growing in leaps and bounds it seems and Vic was slightly surprised when the sonographer? said that it is slightly bigger than average and we should look at something around 8 pounds

We’ve just got back from celebrating Clarie’s birthday with a long Sunday lunch at Bank Restaurant in the middle of London. Many cocktails were drunk and much lovely food was consumed

Although quite classy it must be known as an eating establishment that is quite child friendly. There were a great number of children and they even had their own area and table with loads of kiddie activities (and you could even write on the table cloth!)

After our main course most of the children had left and as we were sitting right next to the “activity table” Fiona and Claire couldn’t resist the pull of the colouring books………..

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It’s 17:15 on Thursday night and I’ve just checked into the Moathouse Hotel in Stoke. I had a call from one of our salespeople at about 18:00 last night to see if I could be at a meeting up here at 09:30 tomorrow morning.   As I already had a meeting this afternoon over half the way here I said the only way I could make it in time was if I stayed up here overnight. Given such short notice Vic was very understanding

I’ll miss Vic and playing with Fidget before going to sleep though 🙁  For a while the baby has been reacting to prods and Vic sits there playing with him/her :vbg:  Way cool!

Wanna buy a house for an obscene amount of money just because someone famous once lived there?

USD 1,000,000 and counting……..

Thanks to Gina

My life feels like bullet points at the moment so this entry will follow that theme.

? Fidget had the hiccups last night!  It was very cool laying there with my hand on Vic’s tummy and feeling Fidget moving in such a rhythmic way. Poor wee thing, swallowing all that amniotic fluid 🙁

? Speaking of things pregnancy related a very funny thing happened the other night. I was rubbing Vic’s tummy as we were talking and she laughed. At the moment her tummy is flat where her belly button is but when she laughed it popped out about 2cm! Very cool :vbg:

? I was reading this post on Tom’s site and it got me thinking. One thing I really hate about using public toilets is lifting the seat – you never know what’s going to greet you! **shudder**

I think that’s all for now – we have our next scan on the 25th. It’s an additional one at 32 weeks due to the placenta being a tad low at the 22 week scan. 90% of the time the placenta moves out of the way but we need to check it……..

ciao!