In an effort to get my blogging back on track, and show some activity on my website, this is a quick post to wish everyone a prosperous 2009 !! I have a number of posts planned, including more details on the Outlook to Windows Mobile Gateway SMSing project, more details on my Homebrew Home Server [...]
Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
Do it yourself ringtones
October 11th, 2007
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Sarah wanted ‘Ruby Ruby Ruby’ by the Kaiser Chiefs as her ringtone. Her mobile doesn’t have any easy way of connecting to a PC, so she joined one of the rip-off ‘Ringtones R Us’ services that force you into paying £4.50 / week for as many ringtone downloads as you want (aside: I must be [...]
Creative Zen Vision M 30GB
December 31st, 2006
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Isn’t Santa a nice guy. For no other reason that I had been ‘good’ all year, he brought me a shiny new black Creative Zen Vision:M 30GB. Thank You !! So far I have loaded it up with : 200 CD’s of music Just shy of 3000 photos Star Wars 4, 5 and 6 (ripped [...]
High Definition TV.
November 1st, 2006
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I recently persuaded Sarah to let me buy a High Definition (HD) TV, a 32″ LCD job. After much research, I decided on a Vistron model from eBuyer – there are over 50 customer reviews on their site and it seems most of them are pretty good. It was delivered in a couple of days [...]
Two weeks in and he has a name !!
September 18th, 2006
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Alastair Mitchell Hughes (aka ‘Wee Man’) Two weeks in and we are starting to remember how hard this stuff is… – Feeding at all hours of the night- Nigh on constant nappy changing- Sterlizing and making up bottles But neither of us would change it for the world. He is the spit of his big [...]
New Baby
September 2nd, 2006
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He’s here !! Born at 11:10am on Friday 1st September 2006. Weighing in at 8lbs 7oz and sporting a big pair of lungs, both he and mother are fine. The bad news is that Sarah and I have both agreed that he doesn’t look like a ‘WILLIAM’, so we’ll have to be thinking of names [...]
We have a name !!
August 14th, 2006
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After months of debating, listing, reviewing, comparing and disagreeing and with only 3 weeks to BoB Day (Birth of Baby day) we almost have a name for the new baby… WILLIAM Nest is well and truly built – the whole upstairs of the house has been redecorated, carpeted, walls knocked out and rebuilt, plastered etc [...]
Ruby’s sibling.
January 3rd, 2006
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We found out on 27th Dec that Ruby has a little brother or sister on the way. 3rd September is the due date (by our initial calculations)…
Teaching Ruby ‘Eskimo Kisses’
December 7th, 2005
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This morning, as usual I got up with Ruby at around 7am, took her downstairs whilst I made some tea and had a bit of breakfast. I then spent 5 minutes teaching her how to do ‘Eskimo Kisses’ (rubbing noses together). She thought this was hilarious (she is only 16 months old currently) and remembered [...]
