Brand new birthday experiences

So this year for my birthday I took a trip to Oslo to visit the Norway branch and their latest addition Brand Henry.  Now a ripe old 12 weeks, Brand is happy as anything and was happy to say hello to his Uncle Tim.








The downside of having older sisters is that your hand-me-downs have a distinct pink tinge.



Super sweet baby feet







Having a lie down on Uncle Tim



Smiling at himself in the front facing iPhone camera



Another sleep



Grown up sisters Maud and Henny in their traditional Norwegian dress for the Christening do.











Brand is the centre of attention all day and rightly so!



Does get a bit tiring though











A quick pit stop though and you can be back smiling again in no time!

Have to keep up with all the older kids too with their fancy party games.



But that won't last for long in the Grandma sleep hold

Foggy day in London Town

Whats the best thing to do on a foggy dark day in London? 

 

 

Eat gluten and dairy free cake from Spittalfields Market!  Deelushious!

Lapps

Wooooh great day! I discover blogger has a new iPhone app and I had a successful first attempt at making frokostlapper! Thanks Silje!

Super Duper Skype

Wee wow, not been on Skype for a while.  Four way video calling! Excellent…. for a minute until mine decided to not play anymore… stupid rubbish Isle of Dogs internet connection!  Still very entertaining.  More again soon please!

 

 

Felling the beast...

Hello again peeps.. Been a long time I know!
Going to try and resurrect the blog - internet connection is getting mildly better at home which makes things easier but mostly I just need to not be so lazy!

These are the before and afters for the change of TV for Mum. Was a fun little project.
 

Before. Much clutter had been removed which made it look good - but no normal sized (in this day and age) TV is going to fit in that wooden monster... so it had to GO!

Stuff gone

Oooh round the back of the beast with the panel off for access to the over engineered joints.

You could have built a house on top of this unit there were so many screws, joints and supports.  It was only meant to hold a few books and pictures right?

All the bits.

The "I hope you know what you're doing look" now there is a massive mess and no TV

Bravely cutting it into bits with a jigsaw and putting it all to the car before getting the new equipment installed and working - every confidence in Mr Samsung and Brandson

The "are you sure you're sure" moment.

Dropping of Mr Toshiba TV with his mates at the tip before saying bye bye.

Just because I blog (occasionally), not because I'm a weirdo. This is the way the tip looks now.  All very high tech.  Drive up the roadway around the back of the blue skips to drop your stuff in to be recycled.  All very strict.

Also very strict is the "no pictures" rule... I got chased off the premises by a man in a high vis jacket and a hard hat - apparently it was more that his job was worth to let me take a picture... good job he didnt know Id been snapping the whole way round then!  Also in this pic is the end of the beast... bottom of the shot.

New TV working, check; Chinese take away, check; champagne, gin, feet up, check.  Yep I'm sure.

Humphrey

Peter with Humphrey

Humphrey's Mummy Anna

Aren't I cute

Hungry?