I am a bad blogger!

Yes, i know, i am rubbish- sorry. I havtn posted for a while as I sill cant find the camera lead, and i like to have pictures on the posts. BUT it is now deemed lost, for sure. i havnt been doing much, messing aroubd with the phd, and this weekend david was away working so i have a lto od bean time (am very tired) but my reward is david get us tickets to go and see the manics- yipppeee......

anyway, last week i also stared my diet (cue grumpy me) and went, wait for it, running! i almost died. FACT

I have also been invited to give a paper at a conference in portsmouth on memory, which is greaqt for the ego. dont know what it will be about yetm but im sure i can find dummat!

Fin Beans first visit to the Thames

Today we are in London, seeing Davids mum for a mini Mumas day. (at my mums tomorrow) He got taken to see the kiosk which Terry and Chris own, and to see the Thames for the first time! He also went on a bus for the first time, lots of firsts today....

postcards

Evening, sorry for the gap in blogging again! I am rubbish. (also lost the lead to get my pictures off my camera! so no visuals tonight) but we have had another lovely week. This included: good teaching, mummy group, swimming, going to the art gallery with an ace friend (hello john!) and playing in fins new ball pit. all hair the toy making people who realise that i do need to have enough room to squish in there with him! Dave has painted our bathroom green (nice mint green) and i have tarted up the garden. this coming week is the last week of teaching before easter (thank god, im knackered) so roll on mummy day. (please everyone remind dave, becuase if he forgets he will be wearing his dangeling bits as earings)

also, if you ar planning on going anywhere, please do send fin a post card, i have started a scrap book for him to keep them all in like i did when i was little, when my dad would send them to me form places he went in the navy. i used to lovbe looking at them and seeing on the map where he was, and i would like fin to do the same. havea nice few days!

adventures with nana and grandad...(and sidekick mummu)

friday

thank god. no really. i am still ill, and fin is ill again, and i have the worst hair ever. it is official. also, the house is being wrecked by a boy who wont eat off a spoon and likes to throw things!

this seasons look for the men in your life!

fin and grandma at the aquarium

bum week

I am having a bum week, and i find it cathartic to moan. here is why:

1- my work do not value me in any shape or form. I have no office space, no access to a computer, no where to do any marking or prep, or see students. I am reduced to sitting in the lobby, and made to feel (and look like) no one cares about my input or effort. do not get me started on the pay.

2- my phd is just going on and on and on. my supervisor didnt really rate the last chapter, but on the up side did give me some better feedback, so i can go about fixing it. but it is just dragging on.

3- our house if TINY! and i broke my favourite mirror. grrr

4- i have a stinking cold.

5- I need, but cannt afford a hair cut.

all of this is making me feel rubbish. I know i am veyr luck to have a husband, and a baby and a house, i am just lacking perspective this week. next time i post i will have pictures of rome and fin.

work.....

I am now back at work, yuck yuck! i am not enjoying it at all like i used too- jsut seemd like i spend the entire day planning how to get fin too/from nursery, or thinking about him while i am there.... in fact, todays seminqar was a total disaster- spome crazy person had stoled my photocopying, so i didnt have anything for them to do for the first 20 minutes. crap! i tell you, i wouldnt pay tuition fees for that lesson.

plau the boy is still really not well, he is off his food and has a hackinh 40 B & H a day cough- think i will take him to the doc this afternoon and demand that they make him better- hate it when hes ill. really then, so far, today has been rubbish. got to teach tonight 7-9 so i will be death on a stick tired- RUBBISH!

congratulations to adam and karen!

this morning my brother proposed to his lovely girlfriend live on our local radio station and she said yes!!! ahhhhhhhhhhh.

it was a lovely proposal and ity made me cry! ( and her afterwards- god women, we have more hormones sometimes than a womens rugby team!) but i am sooo happy for them...... and if they need a page boy....

I am writing this in Rome!

goddam me feet hurt! we must have been walking around for the last 3 days for miles and miles-...... ouch! but we have seen every church in the near and far, and ever site that the guide book thought was worthhile. and eaten a lot lot of food. david thinks the food has been a bit of a pricy letdown, but i have been scoffing mushroom pizzas and risotto.....mmmmmm......

i really think the only downside has been my ever hurting poor left foot )doctor said i probably broke the beckham bone a while agoand it is too late to fix!) and the gut wrenching missing the baby. although i know he is safe in the hand of nana and grandma, i still meep at every baby we see, and have been buying him a lot. so far he has aquaired: a lovely blue preppy outfit fro outside the vatican; a moblie with clouds; and a totally garish snow globe with teh trvui fountain in it! (which was bought under the influnce of wine at lunch today)

to be honest i am quite looking forward toi coming home, although this coming week i have my *gulp* first day back at work, teaching my C & C at soton.... and i have to leave my scrummy boy at nursery, i suspect i may cry then as well!

anyway, dave is on his way back with cake and wine, so i am going to enjoy my last grownup day- ciao!

happy birthday to me!

no time to post, but david is taking me to rome!!! on friday!!!!!!

our week in pictures...... at the aquarium!

looking at sheep and other animals at staunton park

getting b etter at trying to crawl

fin gives kisses and cuddles now!

plus, its my birthday on tuesday, so feel free to leave a comment!

blurry cat encounters

this is fin trying to kiss my mums kitten, flo. ahhhh. i was in uni yesterday and i fouind out i got a distinction for the second part of the teacher training course i did. yay! and i got a few more hours teaching at portsmouth, so at least there is a fair chance that the three of us, plus moggies et al will not starve! we are off to siansburys in the pouring rain this morning, and then to mummy group this afternoon... they are holding a food tasting session, so i can watch fin pull this "are you trying to kill me?" face he does when he first tried new things!

first party for fin

on saturday fin went to his 1st party, georges 1st birthday, there was cake and kids bigger than him, so def a life experience! anyway, we had lots of fun, and then yesterday we went for lunch at one of our interloped nct friends! it was ace, there was wine and balti, what more can i girl ask for........

phd

yes, i am actually doing some work. well, i have benn very busy working. today i have: pestered mp dennis macshane (rubbish- no help at all), written to the oxford coroners office, got archive stuff from the coventry evening telegraph, finished my notes from said rubbish mp book, filled in my contract for uni, begged for more hours from portsmouth, printed relevant articles on jstor and air force magazine, bitten my nails, and missed the boy horribly. i cant imagine how horrid it will be when i actually havce to go back to work proper! he is being babysat by his nana and grandad, so when i get back chances are he wont even have noticed i was gone!

at last! a christening picture!

see! it did indeed occure, and we must all be amazed at how fab the gown was, THANK YOU janet, who also got us some very fine chocs for xmas... anyway, this is the godparents posse, it includes alison, adam, mark and matt.