It's all good

Well what can I say apart from I'm good and I'm not at work.

Got the new TV and the Toshiba 32WLT66 is bloody brilliant, Love it.

I have now changed the hair and have a short back and sides again rather then the long style that I used to have. It was time to change after seeing how old I looked !! I had a mate over from OZ who came round after the V festival Chelmsford and I looked so old from the last time we saw him while we traveled that I thought I had to sort out the mop, Mark looked better and he had not washed for 3 days !!!!.

I always used to worry, and used it as an excuse, that the Maxster would not reconise me but I had no need to worry about that. I even managed to cut my hair all on my own apart from Faye having to cut my bum fluff away from my neck, now am I going to get more hits because I said bum fluff, I hope not but I bet I do !!!

Hopefully it looks OK and means I saved a few quid towards the apple mac media centre :-)

I am meant to be doing lots of decorating BUT being with Max just shows how much Faye does each day because we have had no time to do anything !! I cant believe how little time we have had because of Max, It's mad with all his little classes that he does.

Today was cool and we went to a music class that he loved and apart from the baby that picked his nose all the time we had a great time and I wish I was there for all the lessons.

Here are some pictures:
First one is a great family shot of us all:


Here are 2 of the music class: Max and Jake try to esacpe


Think I was on the wrong side:

Bloggers come and go

Went for a walk the other day using the new baby rucksac we got and it is great, it makes moving around really easy



Have had a family round for the last few days and have had a great time showing people the new house and drinking a bit too much.

My Bro in law came round last week followed by my in laws and then my sister, her husband and my niece. everyone had their jobs :-) but I have to thank my father in law the most because he moved my electrical points around to make way for our new fireplace that should be coming at the end of September (on his Birthday !!!).

Here he is with Max on his day off



A blog I read was in the Sunday Express today :-0, Charlotte Howard is a great blog and can be seen Here but check out the article here

On a sad note though a blogger that I "started" with and was the first person to ever comment on this site looks as though he has had enough and stopped. I hope not as it was a good read. Wyndham

New family member

Well Faye went to see the puppy and has put a deposit down on him. We have waited for a while for the right one to come up and he is from a family rather then a breeder and is used to kids. He is also the right colour i.e. Black and Tan, seems to be a hard colour to get hold of although he looks like he has a touch of white on him.

We get him mid September, He is a King Charles Spaniel and this is a picture of him.

Baby and a puppy. Now lets see those page hits increase :-)



Also got a chilli plant today and it has lots of fruit on it. Sampled it today and it tasted very good.

Lets see yer puppies

My brothers dog gave birth yesterday and here is 2 pics.

The litter was 5 girls and 2 boys. All the staffies are doing well.

Wouldn't mind a Staffordshire Bull Terrier to be honest but we wont be getting one because we may have news tomorrow on if we are getting a puppy. I say we but it's more Fayes dog then mine although I am sure I will get some walking duties. Faye is seeing a King Charles Spaniel tomorrow.

Dont think I can change her mind.

Staff Pup

Staff Pups

Max is crawling, well almost.

I'm happy but also sad because I think we have just bought the TV at the wrong time i.e. as Max is about to crawl.... I hope it does not get messy !

Faye managed to get some footage of Max today while I was at work. Does not look too long before he will be off on all 4's

The file size is about 3.5 meg and I used iMovie to export it so best have quicktime installed. You can see it Here

All the best,

Top of the league

Eagles.... We are top of the league and I know it's only 2 games so I am going to be calm. We played pretty bad against Southend in the first half but had a great second half and deserved to win. I can not believe how well Kennedy got the crosses in and for once it was great to watch set pieces. The crowd was still tough though and I heard a few boos at half time. Makes me laugh to be honest. Give them a chance and get behind the team.

It was good and looking forward to a tough game against dirty Leeds on Sunday.

We have bought a new TV today and it comes a week Monday when I am off work. Will post some pics of it in the flesh but here is a starter for 10 thanks to Comet.co.uk


I am starting to count the days down. Toshiba 32" LCD MMMmmmmmm

All the best,

Eagles are flying and the bugs are a buzzing

Good weekend all round, 3 points for Crystal Palace V Ipswich and we had a street BBQ.

I never went to the footy buy my Dad said that we played well. First time I have missed the first game of the season for 14 years :-0 (not including 1 when I was traveling)

BBQ - What a great idea, after only 2 weeks of living in Berkhamsted we got an invite through to join the other 8 households in a street BBQ, We live in a kind of close off the main road (will post pics soon). All came bar 2 houses that couldnt make it and we have now settled in and feel like we have known everyone for ages now.

We all took our BBQ's out and got some tables and chairs and you cooked your food and drank lots. I got the daddy of BBQ's out again (Photo from last year on Flickr, never thought of taking some of the BBQ :-0) and had a few jibes about it being gas but then I was able to drink lots while they all waited and waited for the coals to get to a good temp :-)

Stumbled in the house at about 3am after becoming best mates with everyone, Have not felt too good all day and will be off to bed soon !!!

May of found a couple of babysitters !

The flys are doing my head in at the moment, there is loads of them and we have discovered that our main bin is only collected every 2 weeks because they take an organic wheelie bin the other week. How much organic waste can you produce. I wish they collected my main rubbish every week during the summer in this heat. Have bought some fly spray to "attack" the bins with and industrial strength freshener to spay in there.

New home now with ADSL

Welcome back to the real world, we have broadband and have unpacked most of the boxes. We moved in just over a week ago and while 1 neighbour was kind enough to have an open wireless connection he turns off his ADSL when not using it so we only had sporadic internet.

Gone for Pipex again and hope to get about 6.5 meg :-0 it's at 2meg at the moment and I have to try and remember to turn the router off and on every now and then so it re-syncs or something. Very pleased at having to wait just a week for it.

The house is great and it feels good to be out of London and living in Berkhamsted. Do a flickr search for some photos until I get round to taking some Berko search. It seems a great place where people say hello and dont want anything other then a hello back. The neighbours seem good and we are having a street BBQ this Saturday. Where we live is in a sort of close where there is only 8 other houses so we can "close" our bit off with out affecting the main road.

Have had a chat about the boundaries already with our neighbour because he came round on the day we moved in to mention that it needs replacing, well, my half did. Never ever heard of shared ownership i.e. he owns the good bit albeit short fence and own the crap bit that runs down so I got my solicitor to look into it and it turns out that I have to look after the boundary so I am going to try and get him to move "his" fence down to the crap bit and then I'm putting up a 6 foot one.

Here is a photo of Max his tent the other day:


Off to sunny Preston tomorrow for a meeting on Thursday. Taking my naff old powerbook so hope to get an internet connection.

Also going to drive the Agila because my ABS light is always on so it is going to the garage. beep beep