Apr 04 2009

Park By The Pub With A Crazy Golf Course

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 9:02 pm

4th April – I’ll try and remember to update this post’s title when I discover the real name for the park in Swansea. I think I tweeted from there, and possibly originally included a snapshot from my phone and the GPS location. Anyway, Irina and I originally visited this area (Sketty Lane? Rd?) a few years ago, and wanted to take Anna there before we left for Kazakhstan. You can’t quite walk right around the little pond there unless the sun has dried out the muddy patches, but Gwen enjoyed the trip, and we popped over the road to see the beach before we left. Which reminds me, if anyone found our cute little baby toy, that can be suspended from a pram’s handle, in the area, let me know 🙁

It looks as though there weren’t any photos taken on Irina’s camera for another three weeks. I’m guessing Anna’s immunizations, drop in clinics, my and John’s 30th and 60th birthdays, preparations for moving to Kazakhstan and other assorted distractions kept us from taking many shots. Or I just forgot to copy them over from the memory card. Anyway, one more post to go before I’ve emptied the hard drive of Anna Photos. This batch of posts were originally written around 16th/17th May, and scheduled for publishing over a week or so, to ensure people had a chance to see the pictures before they dropped off the bottom of the first page, and also as a rather blatant attempt to encourage people to become regular visitors here 🙂

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Apr 04 2009

Anna Surrendering

Category: Anna's Photos,TweetsChrisM @ 5:50 pm

http://twitpic.com/2tkz6 – Anna surrendering. Random park by the sea, with a lake, on Sketty Rd(lane?) in Swansea. http://is.gd/qKnZ

Anna Swansea Park Pushchair Pram

Crap, for some reason Google Maps doesn’t want to play nice and allow me to create the embed code for this area. Click the is.gd link above to be taken to the correct area.

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Apr 03 2009

Pip & Con Come To Visit

Category: Anna's Photos,Friends,PersonalChrisM @ 8:46 pm

Moving on to the 3rd April (only two more posts to go before I’ve exhausted the supply of photos on my hard drive (I still need to check Irina’s camera’s memory card for more recent shots)), and Pip & Con came over to visit. With Con soon heading off to Thailand (by the time this post actually appears on the blog, he should have finally made his flight onwards to Australia, fingers crossed), Pip kindly volunteered to drive him over to Wales to see Anna before he went. She hadn’t seen Anna either, so it wasn’t an entirely selfless act. From what I remember, and the Facebook photos suggest, we got through a fair amount of vodka, once Anna was safely asleep, and they managed to set off the next day for England with only a few hours missing from their work shift 🙂

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Mar 31 2009

Anna BCG

Category: Anna's Photos,TweetsChrisM @ 4:18 pm

http://twitpic.com/2muhm – BCG even

Anna Singleton Hospital Swansea BCG

Anna Singleton Hospital Swansea BCG

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Mar 31 2009

At The Hospital

Category: Anna's Photos,TweetsChrisM @ 9:54 am

http://twitpic.com/2muhm – At the hospital, where Anna is about to have her TB jab.Have promised not to take a swipe at anyone with a needle

Anna Singleton Hospital Swansea BCG

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Mar 30 2009

Anna In Her Cot – March

Category: Anna's Videos,PersonalChrisM @ 11:30 pm

Towards the end of March, with Anna being just over a month old, these videos was shot back in Clydach.

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Mar 30 2009

TwitPic Issues

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 1:58 pm

So far I have had one picture disappear completely, and several state they are unavailable for half a day or more. So for now, I’m just going to occasionally host some on this site, and post them separately. Hover your cursor over each image for a little background info.

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Mar 27 2009

Anna’s Adopted Tree And Torchwood

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 6:15 pm

Dad came over again to see Anna on the 27th March, and we went to pick a tree in a newly planted forest-to-be that Anna’s Great Aunty Chris (on Dad’s side) had adopted on her behalf. After we all managed to meet up (which reminds me, I still need to find a good recommendation for a GPS unit for Dad), we took Anna’s pushchair off the beaten track for the first time, and found the saplings (is that the right term? Baby trees basically). Having marked off the exact point on TomTom, we took a few photos, went for a walk around the countryside in that area, and then went off to find a nice place to have a pub lunch. After that we headed into Cardiff, as despite family living there, Irina and I hadn’t been around the city at all, and I’d not been to the bay area at all since it has been redeveloped. Once there, we had to take the obligatory photos next to one of the fictional entrances to the Torchwood Institute, went for another wander, then had a nice drink by the sea.
In years to come, I hope we can take Anna back to the forest, and show her the tree slowly maturing into a unique feature, just as she will 🙂

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Mar 26 2009

Anna Is Not Confused

Category: Anna's Photos,PersonalChrisM @ 5:49 pm

This day (26th March) was quite a landmark for everyone around in Clydach at the time – Anna took her first ever bottle feed. Although Irina is still breastfeeding Anna, we wanted to make sure that if Irina ever had to go somewhere for a few hours without Anna, that feeding would not be a problem. Having expressed enough milk in advance, we put her in her favourite chair, introduced the bottle’s teat to Anna’s mouth, and that was all that was needed – she immediately sucked (suckled?) well, and finished the bottle in one sitting. Afterwards, she showed no sign of confusion about going back to the breast. Hopefully we’ll not need to actually use the bottle until she is weaned off the breast, but it is very reassuring to know that it shouldn’t be a problem if the need arises.

Anna Taking Her First Bottle Feed From Chris

Anna Taking Her First Bottle Feed From Chris

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Mar 26 2009

Ready For The Day

Category: Anna's Photos,TweetsChrisM @ 12:12 pm

Ready for the day … http://is.gd/p3dw http://twitpic.com/2gidn

Anna Ready For The Day


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