The Trouble With Inns

There's never any bloody room at them when you need them. No stable out the back was on offer, so it seems we are spending the night in our own beds. Nothing further to report at this time. We'll let you know as soon as there is.

Big! Exciting! News!*

*There's no big exciting news yet.

Okay, that was unfair, but is kind of a slice of what waiting for this sprog to turn up feels like. Still nothing. Neither pineapple, raspberry tea, hot curry, sudden drops in pressure due to Tropical Storms nor other remedies (that some of you best not think about), can shift this kid. The doc has a plan though and he's swinging into action tomorrow evening, which means that, as Alex feared, the sprog is probably going to show up on his birthday. He may yet be saved from a lifetime of everyone in the family forgetting his birthday by labour spontaneously starting tonight or going long and giving us an 08/08/08 kid, but the 7th looks favourite. Sorry bruv. Have a good one on Thursday and I hope to speak to you at some point during the day.

Still Waiting

As most of you know, our debut child was due out yesterday. So far, s/he has chosen not to put in an appearance. We are at the doctor now demanding some answers and can only apologize to you all for this delay.

Geeky Bunny

Now, it could be that Tim has decided that my laptop bag is a comfortable place for his early morning nap...

...but doesn't this look like the face of a bunny with big plans?

I think he might be planning on using the computer to figure out how to get into the big, cold, silver thing that stores the lettuce.

Tasty?

I got a new phone this week. I like it a lot, it's got a few more megapixels in the camera; a much improved, though frighteningly bright, flash; a very useful metric-imperial converter built in to the calculator; GPS positioning and a built-in video camera. Tim only has one question though:

"Can I eat it?"

Two Weeks Ago

Sorry, I didn't get around to uploading it until now.

There should be a shot of the bump as of tonight here as well, but I took it on our sofa. Nikki has now decidecd that sofa is too ugly to be on the Internet. Sorry sofa.

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Ooh nice. Much better, don't you think?

Waiting

Preparations are pretty much complete. We're all just sitting and waiting. Tim lost his favourite spot under the sofa bed to a storage box, but appears to have found a suitable replacement.

For Fig's Sake!

I love a lazy Sunday and, after a hard day of working in the garden yesterday, was looking forward to a nice lie-in today. Unfortunately, mother nature, like all mothers everywhere, declared that I was wasting the best part of the day and should get out of that smelly pit and into the sunshine. Just to make sure I did, she blew a big old storm through Houston and took out our lovely big fig tree last night:

This is the scene that greeted us this morning. The big bit of the tree came down on most of the rest of it and knackered all that too.

Looks like it had a bit of wear and tear, so something was wrong with it anyway. Wish it would have told me. It was sprouting fruit like mad and looking very healthy.

You can see a little black spot in the trunk. This is more pronounced in some of the other parts, so it was rotting from the inside. I wonder if it could be termites? It could also be damage to the root system from when we had a drain put in right past it earlier this year. Whatever it is, we're a little bummed out. The tree threw lots of shade over our bedroom windows. Might have to invest in curtains now. If anyone needs me, I'll be outside for the rest of the morning I guess.

Summertime...

Sorry it's been so long since we blogged at you, but we've been busy:

Been working in the yard. A lot of sweat in the Texas sun for one flipping strawberry that a bird pecked half of before I picked it. Doesn't the other half look pretty though?

Been painting too, a delicious shade of Lemon Ice. Mmmm. Now where did I put the lid of the paint tin?

We've also been trying to figure out what keeps killing Nikki's plants...no ideas so far.