Jun 07 2009

Neck Muscles

Category: Anna's Photos,Personal — ChrisM @ 3:01 pm

The day (7th June) after Igor and Natalya visited, we have a quick couple of shots of Anna on her playmat. In the end we bought two of them, one for at the in-laws, where we stay each weekend, and one for here, back at home. Although the toys, tunes and animal noises are great, at the time of writing this post, we already often have to use a bedspread instead, as Anna has become quite proficient at rolling, and given 10-20 seconds, can be 1/2 way across a room!
Anyway, back 7 weeks or so, when this picture was taken, rolling like that didn’t happen, and Anna’s neck muscles were nowhere near as strong.

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Aug 28 2006

OK, Back To The Planned Blog

Category: Friends,Kazakhstan,Personal — ChrisM @ 1:03 am

It is Sunday, and we’ve just waved Natalya & Oleg (a different Oleg to the one previously mentioned on this site) off. They visited for a long weekend, to do some business and to say hello to some of Astana’s inhabitants. They stayed with us, and when not working, we went out for a few drinks.

We haven’t seen her for a few years, and it was good to catch up. It was also good to meet her friends. We played billiards, which I’ve not done for 5 years. If you’ve never seen it in person, imagine a snooker table with smaller pockets and the cushions have a square angle at the pocket, not bevelled.

Now imagine the balls being almost too big to fit in the pockets, and you start to see the way the game differs from pool and snooker. Luckily we played American Billiards, not the Russian version, which means you can use any of the balls still in play as a cue ball, and any ball can be pocketed, as long as it makes contact with at least one other ball. After a few vodkas, I managed to down a few of the balls.
Losha, Igor and his wife came round in the evening, which was cool, as we haven’t seen them in a few weeks. Lorsha is interested in PCs, and his English is really quite good.

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