Friday it didn’t rain. It’s not pleasant refreshing outbursts either. Not 10 minutes and it’s done. No.
How much more do we have to endure? Summer? Please?
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Where does it all come from?
It’s supposed to be summer. In fact it has been raining constantly for weeks. Really, apart from a couple of days in the last month it has been significantly wet every day.
Right now I’m lying in bed and there are great big heavy gobs of rain banging on the window. For heavens sake, it’s JUNE. Unreal.
Goggle box
Telly is the new black. Munchkin is developing an increasing repertoire of programmes that she needs to keep up with!
Most of them are watched from the closest possible geographic location. It’s a mystery she can make anything out with the foreshortening.
All done bar the shouting.
Blog up and running. Satisfactory theme installed; plenty of tweaking to go, but it supports the functionality I want just now. WPTouch installed to make reading on mobile less difficult. xml-rpc turned on and mobile client hooking in.
The more I dig around, the more logical it seems to move the whole site onto WordPress. With pages and hierarchical menus, there seems to be little reason not to. Since we’re in for ANOTHER wet weekend, there could be some fiddling with html import…
Even tracked down and installed a blogging app for Nokia’s bastard child, Maemo 5. That’s up and running on the Mrs’ n900, so she can upload photos and blog for the Canadians.
That’s the biggest thing about self hosting. Trying to use as many of the levers as possible, to lower the barrier to posting as for as possible. Hopefully now flogging blogging Munchkin will become as easy as updating Facebook, bitch!
WordPress to go
That seems to be mobile blogging up and going. Raison numero uno for upgrading from the managed 1and1 blog.
On the road…
Debs aunt and uncle, Margaret and David were over in the UK and stayed with us for a week. For three days, the whole family piled into Debs new wagon and went on a bit of a road trip around the western highlands to take in some of the beautiful scenery, brave the midges and quaff the odd ale here and there. It’s a bit of a job to come up with trip that only lasts 3 days, gets to the really nice stuff and doesn’t miss everything out just to drive.Continue reading
Summertime, and the living is easy(!?)
Summer it certainly is. We’ve had a great spell of even greater weather, with the mercury toddling up into the mid twenties (and no that’s not Farenheit, David) which is just way too hot for any human to endure for an extended period. Mrs. B., being a lizard, has been lapping up the heat, and despite looking like she’s trying to steal a spacehopper from a toy shop, has been unaffected by this ungodly heatwave. Doglet is far more human, and seems to have had the decency to find it a little warm of late.
We’re pregnant!
I guess the title says it all really. As of now, we are approximately 12 weeks pregnant; we won’t know exactly until we get our first (dating) scan which is on the 15th of the month. So that was the motivation for putting up the blog, a place where we can both easily keep all our friends and relatives up to date, post pictures of Number One and all that sort of thing.
It was all a bit of a shock when we first found out. I spent the first couple of weeks not quite believing it but having those periodic “Shit! We’re pregnant!” moments at random times of the day and night. It’s all much more real now, I guess it’s sunk in that the world will change forever in the near future, and it feels great.