Christmas Greetings

Pictorial update

An amazing 9 weeks

WOW! How did we get to 9 weeks old so quickly? The weeman has been through so much already. Needless to say he is a smiling, cheeky bundle of joy. He is so happy and is making so much progress. Sara is home with him and she is just the absolute best mother and wife! She is far surpassing any expectations and images I had of her as a mother. I think the little 'un's great start in this world is entirely down to her.  The two of them have such busy schedules most days especially if you include the hours and hours of walking they do. Christmas creativity beckons. Watch this space for a little name celebration film.

The Cookie Monster!

Troubles for our super hero...

New IMAX Blockbuster!

Andy Warhol painting found!

The Eye of the Tiger

Dear all, 

It seems as though we have not written on this blog for such a long time. So much has been happening and we somehow seem to have so little time on our hands. The wee man is doing well although as the previous post suggests, he is still nameless. Now, Sara is quite impressed by his ability to latch onto the breast, in fact his whole demeanour changes and his face becomes concentrated. He looks like a little tiger about to pounce on his prey. Before you suggest it, we have thought about Tiger as a name but it's a little too different for us!

The hunt continues...

Life's A Beach!

Autumn in Sweden

After a short autumn stroll I came upon these two having a great time in the park!

Happy Birthday Aunty Cathy

Seriously have you got tickets?

The cutest boy in the world!

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. 

When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. 

Ansel Adams

We are proud to present...

A very special 4 days at the hospital for us both!

If you haven't seen it yet?

The first film starring the little one very early in his career! A very proud moment for both of us.

IT'S A BOY!!!

We are over the moon!

More photos to follow when we get internet.

Without you my life's gonna be...

...forever Tuesday morning...goes the famous kiwi song by The Mockers. Well here in Swedentown, it's almost Thursday morning and we are still waiting for the liitle 'un to pop out and say hi. We are carefully convincing 'him' that although it may seem like a good idea to come out and stretch his legs a little, it's a cold world out here and staying in for just a tad longer will be a little more convenient for Mumsy and Dadsy, as we are moving everything we own into our new abode on Saturday, and also it's a heck of a lot warmer in Mum's tummy. 

Nope not today...

Sorry guys, even though it's now 3 days late. 'Peanut' hasn't come yet, although a few pains last night made me a little worried. We picked up our keys to the new apartment tonight. A mixed bag of emotions really.

Extra Storage

I have been pondering something. I have just purchased a 1 Terabyte hard drive for my computer. For those of you who don't get computers, that's 1000 GB of memory. Admittedly that's a lot of storage but for some reason I feel as if even that won't be enough soon. When I purchased my Mac computer, I upgraded to get maximum memory then, which was 90 GB. That was only 3 years ago! Digital and online memory is one thing and gone are the days of super computers that take up entire rooms or warehouses. The 1 TB hard drive is no bigger than a book.

  So then I got to thinking about all of the other storage we have. We have only a few of our things in the apartment which we are temporarily renting and that somehow is enough. Almost everything Sara and I own is jammed tightly into an enormous storage warehouse in the south of Stockholm (refer to photo). So that leaves me to ask the question, why do we need or have all of these other possessions? Why is it that 10 years ago, no one needed extra storage or massive storage facilities for all of their personal belongings that they couldn't bare to part with. For those of you with a kiwi upbringing, all the unnecessary stuff was put in the roof or stacked in the garage. But even that's not enough now. How can we have that much stuff, which is basically what it is...that we need to rent other places to fill up too. You've spent money through the years on things that have become obsolete and maybe lost a little appeal and even more importantly...value. But we now spend even more money to still hang onto things that we no longer even need. That's crazy when you actually think about it. When you're living in a  city with minimal space available to the average person as Sara and I are, storage and available space is a premium. I'm just waiting for the invention where you can turn real things into digital memory and then store them on your computer. That'll be the day! That's a good idea for a drawing...