Nesting? Not, we’re working on finishing off the last few remaining bits of DIY in the house so we can get it listed. We just finished stripping 50 years of paint from six doors and frames and now they’re getting a nice clean coat of fresh paint. Looking much better and like new. Hope to get a decorator in to finish off the front hall and kitchen…probably a week’s worth of full-time work.Continue reading
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Winter again
It was winter again last night. I looked out some time mid-evening and it was snowing 
quite persistently, but such small flakes that it wasn’t making any real inroads into covering the place. But, you know how it is when you’re a kid, if it’s snowing you’ve just gotta keep checking in case the mother load has fallen and you’ve missed it.
I kept a lid on it for quite a while, but gave in Continue reading
Winter in Tyler’s Acre
A good fall of snow for the capital. The best that I can remember since moving here, in fact.
Winter at last
After waiting since I was seven years old, when the snow was up to my neck and we had to run home lest we be burried in the blizzard, we’ve finally had a proper winter day again, yay! Britain has been buckling under the strain of up to 150mm (6″ in old money) of snow falling in less than a day. I know, I know, it’s not a lot by many standards,Continue reading
Introducing Doglet
Since Doglet has graciously permitted use of her name for this esteemed blog it only seems fair to officially introduce her. Mia, aka Doglet, is a 5+ year old female Papillon from Missouri; she now resides in the UK after surviving a plane journey across the Atlantic about 19 months ago to immigrate with her beloved servant. Now she luckily has two servants to take care of her every whim…night and day! So without further ado, here’s Doglet…
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.