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Poor Max is ill for the first time 🙁 He’s caught the cold that Abbey had when she visited in the weekend and is pouring snot out his nose like a tap!  It’s about time he got sick – hopefully it’ll build his immunity up a bit.  He also threw up last night and I can’t believe that we caught it in a bowl!  His coughing caused it so we had a bowl ready just in case.  We also thought he’d thrown up in bed but then realised that he’d just been sleeping on his front and had smeared snot all around with his face. The funny thing is he woke up from his morning nap and had white, dried snot all over his eyebrows and looked like a little old man! lol!  He’s also got another molar coming through (his third) which is swelling his cheeks up like a chipmunk

And on top of all this we tried giving him a haircut last night and, although he looks cute, I’m not too sure about the fringe…… The 17mm lens I was using didn’t help either!

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It is so stormy here at the moment!  There are floods all over the area and trees are down by the dozen.  Many areas are cut off from the rest of the world and rivers are bursting their banks on a regular basis.  I went down the road last night to get a curry and was stopped by police about 100 yards short of my destination.  They allowed me to walk through to the restaurant but I had to be careful as the roof was being blown off Burger King down the road a bit!

The wind was so bad last night that it woke me up at about 03:00 and I couldn’t get to sleep.  After an hour I got sick of tossing and turning and went and slept on the couch downstairs where it is much quieter……..

Hopefully things will quieten down later today.

There are 10 kinds of people in this world;

those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

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Damn – I just got my first lot of blog comment spam 🙁 It was only on my lo-res photo blog and I’ve banned the IP address but I don’t know if that will do any good.

If it continues I may have to bring back comment registration but hopefully it won’t come to that………

We signed all the paperwork for the house today (and so did the developer) so the house is ours!  We now have 5 days to organise the financing…….

Here’s a few pics:

How it is at the moment…..

The view

We’ll it looks like our second offer on the house has been accepted!  Our first offer was rejected outright, which I thought it would be, so we reworked the additions to the specification that we had and made another offer this morning.  The agent rang this morning and said that the developer had accepted and signed and that we should be able to sign this afternoon…… fingers crossed

In other news I saw this in the supermarket a few days ago and luckily I had my phone with me! Any one for a deadly drink?

The site World 66 has a page that allows you to select all the countries you’ve visited and then produces a map.  I’ve been to only 11% of the worlds countries 🙁

create your own visited country mapWorld 66

yay – public holiday!

Things have been fairly uninteresting here lately hence the lack of posting 🙁 Work has been crazy during this short week and I’ve barely paused for breath other than to try and decide what Vic and I are going to offer on a house that we want to buy.  It’s a design-build package that they are about to build and we can’t quite afford to pay the full asking price and still have some of the extras that we want (double glazing, underfloor heating in the bathrooms The agent is coming around on Sunday morning and we’ll make a formal offer then and wait…….. very exciting and more than a bit scary!

In other news Max has been a right sh*t over the last few days.  Really grumbly and unsettled and throwing tantrums left right and center – of course it might have something to do with the two or three teeth we think are coming through at the same time 🙁 Thank God for Pamol and Bonjela!