At Fountains Abbey a national trust place north of Harrogate. Happy Easter!
Yearly archives: 2007
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Older than I care to think about. I still squint like that when in bright light, so does Sophie. This is an old slide of my Dad’s. I bought a slide scanner (Plustek Opticfilm 7200) and I’m just starting to convert all his old slides to digital. This is the first one I’ve worked with and it’s not bad, but there is quite a lot of cracking and dust and dirt to deal with on each slide.
Sophie is having a great time harassing the dogs.
Out with owen on the beach getting wet and kicking a ball about. Lovely day despite the weather. We arrived in Ireland last night via ferry to Dublin. Had the great excitement of a first trip through Dublins long awaited post tunnel. Which was long narrow and deep just as expected. Just relaxing today though.
Been a while since my last post. We’ve had visits from Helen and Marc and Oonagh and Adam (plus Paddy) since January.
Sophie has also had a visit from the “Chicken Pops” which kept her at home for a week. Here she shows off her spots in all their glory. She’s recovered now but moving on to a cold this week by the sound of it.
We’ve also been busy thinking about getting started planning for the arrival of baby no 2 in about 8 weeks time. We’ve been attending antenatal classes in Darley near Harrogate and it is just amazing how little we know about it. Totally bluffed Sophie’s birth I think!
No other developments on the house I’m afraid. I wonder if we will get any major work done before the baby arrives.
I’ve just put a bunch of pictures up on the photos section of this site – the most recent thumbnails should be on the left and you can click on them to be taken to the gallery. The pictures currently fall into three categories – family, house and snaps – so you will see some pics of the house as it develops, some more pics of Sophie as she gets bigger and just some other photos that I like.
It’s taken a while to get used to the new camera – just as it did with the old Nikon 5700 – but it’s fun learning about it. It’s a Nikon D50 that I bought for a song (£130 including a kit lens) on ebay a couple of months ago.
We had a visit from Patricia and George yesterday. It was good to see them and to get another perspective on the house. Sophie as usual took about two hours to settle down and stop bouncing off the walls with excitement at having visitors. I kept having to pick her up and put her in the next room to cool down. She loved her present of finger paints and a paint book too, which she played with alongside me while I edited my photos last night.
The house is still the same – we are struggling to get a builder to even provide a quotation never mind agree to do the work so we may need to look further afield. We haven’t agreed on a kitchen style yet, never mind a supplier so no progress there. The living room and first floor bedrooms can be done quickly if we pull the finger out so we may try to make progress with that this week. Bedroom 1 needs to have a fairly horrible gas fire extracted from a nice marble surround. The living room needs to have a totally new fireplace to replace the over large wood burning stove.