New Direction

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So, it’s official, I’m now in charge of iSLI until at least July of next year.  It was put to the board on Friday and they ratified my position as director.  I’ve actually been in the role now for a month, and whilst it is a lot of work and there is a definite feeling of responsibility I am really enjoying it.  News had already been oozing out on the (rather compact!) grapevine that exists here, to the point that I was being asked or congratulated by about half the people I knew at an event last week.  You really know you’ve arrived when you start getting company director junk mail – NOT!

So, lots to do between now and a year in July.  Universities to bring more closely on board, funding applications to build consensus around, write and have approved oh and a company to run from day to day.  It’s certainly not the sort of job that is lacking in things to push forward.  There might even be, dare I say it, some making up for lost time…

Open wide!

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We had growth scans at 28 and 32 weeks with the result that the head circumference was somewhere just about the 50th percentile on both occasions, but the abdominal measurement was above at 28 weeks and below at 32 weeks.  As a result we were asked to go back today for a further scan, carried out by the obstrician, to make sure that the baby wasn’t suffering from some inhibition in growth.Continue reading→

Summertime, and the living is easy(!?)

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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.

Alien Inside

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It’s getting to that stage where Debs is a different shape every time I look at her.  This morning she woke up, then a short while later lifted the duvet followed by a shocked exclamation.  Turned out to be nothing to worry about, just some stray limb that was attempting to leave her abdomen by an unauthorised route.  No danger of doing a John Hurt though; thank goodness, we’ve got dark walls but a light carpet that would never recover…

First feel!

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This is waayyy overdue, but it’s been kind of busy around here and I don’t think I’ve really sat at the home computer for a couple of weeks.  And it was a couple of weeks ago.  Two weeks tomorrow to be exact. The first time I felt junior move.  So not only is my wife clearly an alien, as she has no belly button, but now there’s stuff moving around in there.

Seriously though, it’s a great feeling.  It wasn’t a throw you across the room karate kick, but it was definately pushing stuff out of the way.  Since then all has been going just great.  Debs is blooming, and growing to quite a size.  Any week now we’ll have to get one of those hospital bed things that slides in to act as a table.  Otherwise she won’t be able to fold enough to get to her dinner on our low living room table.

Land ‘o DIY and other stuff

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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→

In the Clear

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Today we met with Dr. Rane to discuss the results of our 16-week blood test and the fetal anomaly scan we had a week ago. Should mention that the scan came up normal, showing no signs of any congenital defects and on track development…you go Little One!!!Continue reading→