May 09 2009
Getting ever close to our leaving date in the UK, this was taken on the 9th of May. Anna is sat in her favourite bouncy chair, wearing a lovely dress, wondering why everyone makes a big fuss when she has certain clothes on 🙂
Anna in a Pretty Dress
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May 08 2009
Anna getting ready for the day… Clothes-Check… Clean face-Check… Eat hands-Check 🙂 http://twitpic.com/4ruqr
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May 06 2009
There haven’t been a lot of ‘real’ blog posts recently, with tweets from my phone being the normal method of updates. So, just to sync everyone at the same time, we went to see Dad on Saturday, over in Evesham. Luckily the car didn’t need any major work done to it (it was making a noise like an Austin Metro engine when you turned the steering wheel), just a top up of the power assist steering fluid. This meant I was happy driving on the motorway with Anna and Ira, without worrying about breaking down or exploding 🙂
It was great seeing Dad, Aunty Chris & Bob again, and to catch up with what has been going on. I hope to see Dad and my brother Nick (and maybe Roz?) before we leave for Kazakhstan on the 14th. From there, we moved onto Cheltenham on Sunday, to see some friends who had not yet met Anna. Irina managed to find a great deal on a room at the Queens hotel in Chelt, which I’d never been in before, let alone had a room. TBH, the rooms, staff and decor were all fine, but I think the reputation of the place had led us to think it would be a lot better. Ira #2’s boyfriend (Andy) instantly became a demi-god when he took a quick glance at our pushchair, diagnosed and then fixed the fault within a couple of minutes – the brake had been semi-engaged since the day it arrived, which meant pushing it and Anna uphill was un-necessarily arduous. Unfortunately, whilst returning from town the brake had fully engaged, so we had to half carry the thing up the Promenade. Silver linings in a cloud and all that though, as if it hadn’t finally engaged like that, we’d not have mentioned it to Andy & therefore struggled over in Kazakhstan pushing it along stony tracks etc.
So what plans today? Sort out a couple of things for John’s upcoming 60th birthday, help look after Anna, generally not get in the way of Irina who is packing boxes to send ahead of us for Astana & try and check out the rest of the demos I downloaded over the weekend for the XBox 360.
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May 05 2009
Anna weighed a few seconds ago at the Pontardawe Health Centre – 13lb 1oz & 5.925kg 🙂 All seems fine, no problems to report.
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May 03 2009
After leaving Dad’s in Evesham, we went on into Cheltenham, where Irina had managed to find a good deal on a room at the Queens hotel. Whether the room was not as plush as their standard rooms, or it was simply a case that the hype accorded to this hotel increases your expectations, we couldn’t be sure. Nothing wrong with the place per se, just not as ‘wow’ as we expected. We met up with Ira’s friends from when she worked at PKL and had a nice meal at Cafe Rouge. From there we went on to meet up with the other Irina and her boyfriend, as well as ChrisD, Steve and Emma, over in the beer gardens.
May 02 2009
These pictures were shot in Evesham, at Dad’s house, on the 2nd and 3rd of May. This was our last trip before heading back to Kazakhstan, though we did also spend some time in Cheltenham on the 3rd.
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May 01 2009
Quick Anna photo on sofa, watching the news. Backlog of her photos clearing soon. Cheltenham visit this w/end poss http://twitpic.com/4bpsw
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May 01 2009
OK, I admit that isn’t the best post title I have ever come up with, but it was all I could think of.
Can you guess what the picture below will be of yet?
Shot at home in Clydach on the 1st of May, with Anna sitting up (just for a couple of minutes) on the sofa. I think this is the first photo from this batch of ‘found’ pictures, that is taking us beyond the last picture posted when we were back in Britain still.
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Apr 25 2009
Just had a great b-day meal with Dad, Nick, Ira and Anna
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Frankie And Bennys Swansea
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Apr 25 2009
These ARE photos from a day that has already been posted about – 25th April when my brother, Nick, and Dad came over to Wales for a birthday meal. We went to an New York-Italian restaurant, and I loved the food and company. For complicated filing reasons, these photos aren’t residing in my ‘not yet published’ folder within Anna’s archives, so I wanted to post the pictures now, so I can close a Windows Explorer window I’ve had open for a few days as a reminder to publish them.
Chris Anna Birthday Meal
Dad Nick Chris Birthday Meal
wow, just looked at the photos properly – Anna looks so tiny in comparison to now, sat in her car seat there!
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