Diary
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Gorgeous Girl
Well so far so good, had a bit of a frustrating day on Monday getting into the swing of feeding but with advice from Liz (thanks cus!) and some practical advice from the midwife we think we’re getting there. I’ve been put in charge of the nappy changing job and Emma and I are getting Continue reading
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Planet Earth
I got the whole series of “Planet Earth” on DVD for my birthday and today I have been able to watch some while I was doing the ironing….. I think it is a masterpiece, it is just so well made and beautifully shot. This, One of my favourite sequences is at the beginning of the Continue reading
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The Worlds Fastest Indian
We watched this film in instalments last night, its a really lovely little film. The true story of Burt Munro a New Zealander who in 1967 set the under-1000 cc world motorcycle land speed record which still stands today. He set the the record on an 1920 Indian scout which he had modified and rebuilt Continue reading
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Emma & K are home
Brought my girls home late yesterday afternoon. It was so nice have them home although I had a very busy evening as K is still really sore. Our first night went fine we even managed quite a bit of sleep! Thanks to everyone for all lovely messages. Continue reading
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Scary but funny
Video of a fat bloke dancing in the street to “Slam” by pendulum. Love the bit when someone nicks his stereo! Continue reading
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Pansy!
Spent most of the morning yesterday welling up all over the place, I just couldn’t control myself, so sorry to mum, fatty, chris and K for being such a pansy. Thankfully I managed to control myself in front of the men otherwise I don’t think I would have heard the last of it! Spent the Continue reading
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Emma May Thomas
After a long long long day Emma was born by caesarian section at about 11pm last night. K did incredibly well, she wanted a home birth and she was in labour all day with only gas and air for pain relief but Emma just wouldn’t come. So at 8pm she went into hospital. By now Continue reading
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Little Ginge News
11am. Little ginge is well on the way! K is doing fine, she’s really chilled out and little ginge is cool as well, so so far so good. Continue reading
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Small changes
Had a blog crisis tonight but its all sorted now. One of the changes I have done is there are now categories. So you can select all the movie reviews or the diary postings using the link at the bottom of the posts or the link in the sidebar. night night Continue reading
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So beautiful
This picture is so beautiful it makes my chest ache. Its taken from the Grand Teton National Park set on flickr. I have added this to my long list of places to go (near the top!). More on Grand Teton National Park on Wikipedia. Continue reading
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Little Ginge News
Well, k is due tomorrow. I can’t believe how quick the time has gone this year its just flown by. Louise the midwife came yesterday and everything is fine and the head is starting to engage. K is pretty cool, I stayed off college tonight as I thought if K is on her own the Continue reading
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The Closet
French film starring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu. Its the story of quite a dull divorcee who hears he is going to be sacked. So, on his neighbours advice he pretends to be gay in a bid to keep his job. The company keeps him on to be politically correct, female co-workers want to seduce Continue reading
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The Lives of Others
Finally sat down and watched this film properly this morning and I’m glad I did as it is an excellent film. Based in East Germany in the early 80’s it is the story of a devout member of the Stasi, Gerd Wiesler, who is in charge of surveillance of a playwright and his actress girlfriend. Continue reading
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So much better….
Seen the Cadburys ad with the gorilla playing the drums? This one is so much better! Continue reading
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Do I need to worry?
I think there must be something severely wrong with me, I woke up with Take Thats “Rule the world” in my head this morning and I am extremely worried about it. I just couldn’t get rid of the vision of a little chunky Gary Barlow singing his heart out. This is just not normal, it Continue reading
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New table
Now I know that getting a new dining room table & chairs is not big news but regular visitors to Trevenna will be very relieved. After perching on those monumentally uncomfortable chairs and getting bum ache before the end of the first course we now have chairs that have actual proper padding and your back Continue reading
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Amazing piccies
A couple of photos for you This is part of a series of photographs of migrating starlings on the Guardian website. This is the second picture in a a series of four of the Canopus thermonuclear test in French Polynesia in 1968. Scary but beautiful. Continue reading
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Bonfire night
Had a bonfire night for all our neighbours over on the allotments tonight. It was really good, drank lots of punch and munched on sausages and the kids ran around with sparklers being constantly told to “keep off the onions”! It was especially good because we burnt our incredibly crap dining room table so at Continue reading
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I’m welling up!
Great post on Liz’s blog of Ols arrival in New Zealand. Liz had kept it a secret that Ol was coming so it was a wonderful surprise for the kids, great photos. Continue reading
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Gorgeous day today
The weather was lovely today, cold with clear blue skies. We went for a walk through the woods at Marks Hall. The trees looked fantastic in the sun and we also saw two deer, one of which was a stag. At the end of the walk we had a cup of tea and some cake…. Continue reading
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Alan Johnston
On this weeks episode of from “our own correspondent” Alan Johnston talks about how earlier this year he was kidnapped and held for 4 months by Palestinian militants. I read an edited version of the programme in The Times this week and I found his closing words really moving: “And the kidnap’s legacy is not Continue reading
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Into The Wild
Very excited to see this film, I’m a big fan of Sean Penn, both as an actor and a director. He has directed, produced and wrote the screenplay for this film This film is about Christopher Candless who, at the age of 24 gave his $24,000 life savings to Oxfam and began traveling across the Continue reading
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Fatty and Lewis come to stay
Fatty and Lewis have been over for a little holiday this week so we have been able to get baby training! [flv:http://www.wherewasshaun.com/video/lewissink.flv 400 300] You can just about hear Pheebs in the background, I think she wants to go next! Continue reading
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Extreme Unicyclist
Kris Holm is an extreme unicyclist. Its the bit where he jumps over a gap in a cliff edge which I have to watch between my fingers! Continue reading
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Steve Fossett
Richard Branson has written a remembrance of Steve Fossett in Time magazine so it seems the Steve Fossetts friends are now accepting that he has died after going missing on September 3rd. His section on Wikipedia is amazing, he has held116 world records 60 of which still stand. He was a pilot, mountaineer, sailor and Continue reading
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Are we not alone?
Scientists have discovered a warm and rocky “second Earth” circling a star, a find they believe dramatically boosts the prospects that we are not alone. The planet is the most Earth-like ever spotted and is thought to have perfect conditions for water, an essential ingredient for life. Researchers detected the planet orbiting one of Earth’s Continue reading
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Evening with Ray Mears
Went to an evening with Ray Mears in Colchester last night. It was fascinating, for three hours he spoke about his travels around the world. He demonstrated the hardship of Inuit life and how they find water, fish, and heat an igloo with seal blubber. Then after telling us about how people endure extremely low Continue reading
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The Eye
Hollywood has remade “The Eye” and it stars Jessica Alba (yummy). I hope it is as good as the Asian original and that it does the elevator scene justice, as this is one of the creepiest films ever. Trailer Continue reading