Louisa got Baptised

Ok, so this is a bit delayed, but we've been busy (I'll get to that later) since Easter. Anyway Louisa got baptised at the Easter Vigil.

She was beautifully behaved despite the lateness of the hour. And I thought I should post a picture of her looking all angelic.

The dress was originally her Aunty's First Communion dress, which her Grandma (that's Louisa's - which means her Aunty's mother - are you keeping up at the back?) made.

Haggling

Well we've not mentioned our blue car for a while, and while all is well with it; it is admittedly a little old.

Anyway we sort of decided to take a serious look at replacing it. We found a rather nice Skoda Octavia, all in silver and lovely. The price however was (as with all cars from dealers) rather more than we figured it was worth. We had a bit of a look, and walked away suggesting that we were prepared to buy it, but not at the advertised price.

Anyway, while I was away in London today my husband has completed his haggling with the dealer and we will soon have a shiny new silver car.

Anyone want to buy a 306?

Connected

It always seems to be a challenge to get techy things to work the way you want. For some time now, I've been increasingly annoyed that my contacts on my phone were getting more and more different from the ones on my desktop. Not to mention that somehow the desktop ones weren't being updated correctly.

Recently I tried out ScheduleWorld, and after a certain amount of experimentation I have finally got the two back in sync and receiving updates.

I've got a new shiny google calendar that I haven't yet sync'd to my phone but will (either through ScheduleWorld again, or another service) soon.

And I've just signed up to Twitter for micro blogging fun - and yes, I can do that on my phone too.

Happy Paws!

Drinks Cabinet!

We have a drinks cabinet.

That probably doesn't sound hugely exciting; but for the past ten years we've been storing our (extensive) drinks collection in a huge bookcase.
We have now assembled a rather nice drinks cabinet. Narrower, taller and deeper than the bookcase it replaces, everything is now hidden behind doors, making us look slightly less alcoholic. But the best bit, is the centre section, with its drop down flap enabling easy making of drinks.

I've tested it, making a couple of G&Ts. It works brilliantly!

All praise to Herring, who modded the original cabinet so beautifully, adding the drop down flap, with braking action stays, in a way Ikea never intended!

Finally

Parents finally returned to Heathrow last night, after a week holed up in a luxury five star hotel and becoming media celebrities (BBC Breakfast!). Doesn't seem too bad does it.

We're very glad they're back safely though.

Our Parents in Bangkok

My parents have spent the last month visiting Singapore, Australia and Thailand.

Guess where their last stop was...

Imaginary fruit

So is it wrong to be teaching my daughter about imaginary numbers?

Mind you, the fact that e^iℼ = -1 still blows me away...