Woo Hoo

That’s it.  It was as simple as using the RSS importer instead of the WordPress importer.  All up and running with the previous posts.  Fantastic.  Now to the business of getting it to look and function how I want and generally pimping the blog.

Half way there

Moved to a new installation, and now trying to import the old blog.  Trouble is 1and1 blog exported this as an xml file and WordPress 3.1 doesn’t seem to recognise it.  It will only take .wxr at the moment.  I’ll get there.

Getting in to pot

Every parent has to deal with life’s issues at some point or another.  Whether it’s the first dodgy boyfriend, crashing the car or coming home drunk and throwing up all over the newly laid pale cream carpet; well OK, that was our dog and it wasn’t drunk.  So it was for us this weekend.  We were on a trip to the highlands, Kingussie to be exact, with a load of friends from university and after.Continue reading

Tonight Matthew…

..I shall attempt to eat the entire world (if the LHC doesn’t beat me to it that is).

I have to say, it was my kind of dinner.  A small savoury main course to start then a much larger pudding to finish!  Marcail ploughed through Deb’s chicken stew in no time flat.  I could barely shovel it in fast enough and if I even thought about pausing there was immediate complaint from the diner.Continue reading

Scared dog

She gets stressed when Debs is on edge and Canada are 2:1 up to the US in the men’s ice hockey final; for gold. Two minutes to go…

It doesn’t get more exciting for a Canadian!

Exersaucer

Standing room only

So, I mentioned that Marcail had been quite taken with her exersaucer in Calgary.  Well, she was really quite taken with it.  So much so in fact that we really thought we should get her one now that we are home.  Sunday just past, then, we made a trip back to Edinburgh for DIY, food and to go to Mothercare who had the one we wanted in stock.  There aren’t that many of them to choose from but this one seemed, to us anyway, to be the pick of the crop. Continue reading