Yearly archives: 2006

Now that normal service has been resumed it is about time I uploaded a few pictures from Italy. We spent two weeks in a carvan south of Florence. OK fancy mobile home. At least it had aircon and a proper bathroom. I got a good slagging from Ronan about it in advance but now I hear he is hiring an RV which is a fancy name for a motor home!

We had a great time in Italy. It was my first time there and I’d love to go back when Sophie is old enough to be dragged through the Uffizi gallery – which we had to walk past – and spend some more time seeing the sights, rather than the sites!

Anyhoo, here are some pics.

See all those archives over on the right? My old posts from 20six. Unfortunately without the images attached – which kind of renders them pointless. Will keep at it! Once that’s done I’ll focus on defining a theme for the site which is in its out of the box state at the moment. Off to bed for now though……
Adam

Update: Yay – images restored!

That’s what I need to do. I used to do it all the time in Germany, MMS to email – 20six would receive and post the text and picture in line. Onece I got to the UK and moved to Vodafone UK they put this html wrapper on all MMS to email messages that trashed my posts by placing images and text and worst of all my mobile number around the core of my message. They wouldn’t turn it off either!

Now that I have the blog back up and running again I’d like to choose a good plugin to handle posting from the phone via email or MMS. Expect a few messed up test posts!

I’m heading home to Ireland tonight – last flight out of Leeds-Bradford into Dublin. An advance party of Jean and Sophie went out yesterday – Jean to work and Sophie to holiday with Mimi and Grandad. Got the following pic from Dad last night.

 

 

And I believe they are on the beach this afternoon with a picnic, enjoying the sunshine in lovely Laytown. I’ll see about putting up some more of Dad’s pics over the weekend.

Adam

I’ve been absent for quite some time. I’d like to blame 20six for the interruption in service but to be honest it was about time I moved on from there. 20six did a disastrous migration to a new platform that comlpetely destroyed my small but treasured blog. I started my old blog at www.20six.co.uk/adam_ball back when we moved to Germany from Dublin in early 2003 and it was great to document our time there and the birth of Sophie. We moved to the UK in early 2005 and I suppose since then I haven’t been giving my audience (Mimi and Grandan, Owen, Helen, and some further afield) what they want – more pics of Sophie. Actually I blame Vodafone for that – they also monkeyed up the MMS to email route that meant I couldn’t post from my phone anymore. Right who else can I rail against….. more over the fold.

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