Apr 03 2010

Qik – Dancers At Kids Birthday…

Category: Anna's Videos,Tweets,VideosChrisM @ 5:37 pm

Qik – Dancers At Kids Birthday Party by Chris Merriman http://qik.ly/BF8AL

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Feb 21 2010

365 Days Ago…

Category: PersonalChrisM @ 6:07 am

I wanted to post some videos of Anna and a few more pictures tonight, but either YouTube’s upload service is slow tonight, or Pipex’s performance isn’t top notch once again when it comes to expected vs. delivered speeds. Anyway, it is just a few moments past midnight here, meaning that in just over five hours (I think the time that appears on these posts may be set to Kazakhstan still), Anna will be exactly one year old! I’ll try to write more on this later, and eventually get the photos up, but for now, I just wanted to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY Anna! It barely seems plausible that this time last year I was about to head home whilst Irina waited for Anna to be ready to make an entrance, and that after a few hours, the fastest ever Clydach>Swansea hospital journey I had ever made was achieved!

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Feb 17 2010

Quiet Arrivals

Category: PersonalChrisM @ 8:52 pm

Almost a week with no posts! As you may have guessed, I, Irina and Anna all arrived in Britain safely last Friday. Our car is back on the road, various gadgets have been fixed/sorted at Mum’s, and we are starting to arrange seeing people across the country. It is Anna’s first birthday this Sunday, so we also need to sort a card and some presents. Speaking of presents, I’m looking at getting a Seagate 500gb Portable Hard Drive, to transport back data to Kazakhstan in five weeks time. Anyone have experience with that model?

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Feb 11 2010

Anna Behaves Well

Category: Anna's Videos,FriendsChrisM @ 1:38 am

We hadn’t originally planned to have a lot of friends over for Irina’s birthday this year, but quite a few turned up whilst we were at the in-laws’ house. Anyway, here we have a short clip of Anna and friends taken on the 31st of January. Anna behaved very well considering all the faces around her, and the attention she was given. We just hope she behaves as well back in Britain. Speaking of which, we’ll be in Istanbul in less than 24 hours now!

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Feb 05 2010

All round at Dan and Lara’s fo…

Category: Friends,Pictures,TweetsChrisM @ 8:21 pm

All round at Dan and Lara’s for delayed joint birthday celebrations http://twitpic.com/11htpq

Dan Serenades Inessa And Sophie

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Feb 04 2010

Noisy Smiles

Category: Anna's PhotosChrisM @ 12:15 am
Anna And Irina Smiling Together

Anna And Irina Smiling Together

This was shot on the 22nd of January, and is just a nice picture of Irina and Anna smiling together on an armchair. You can see the mini Christmas tree still up in the background, though I don’t think it survived until Ira’s birthday. Excuse the low quality around the armchair fabric – the original has a lot more noise, for some reason our camera, even with a decent amount of lighting available, doesn’t like the fabric/colour of our living room furniture!

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Jan 31 2010

. @districtoflucky Seriously? …

Category: TweetsChrisM @ 1:58 pm

. @districtoflucky Seriously? Happy Birthday. We have two b-days here as well. Irina and Zhahar.

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Jan 31 2010

Happy Birthday Irina!

Category: PersonalChrisM @ 10:56 am

Today is Irina’s birthday, and I just wanted to write a quick note wishing her to have the best of days. Since we first met, we have got to know each other better, and yet you still want to be with me! Seriously, from Anna and me, we hope your day is filled with joy, that you like your card (Anna’s first attempt at assisted writing 🙂 ), and that the coming year brings you happiness and health.
The joy you bring into the lives of people you know is unbounded, and I just hope that some of the good feeling you create is reflected back towards you.

Happy Birthday Irina

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Jan 04 2010

Aunty Sveta et al Visit Astana Again

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 7:07 am

Around the 21st of November, Aunty Sveta and her family came over to celebrate Babushka’s birthday from a few days earlier, and we took some photos of them together with Anna.

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Dec 09 2009

Wet Sound

Category: PersonalChrisM @ 11:24 pm

OK, so having checked through SEO SearchTerms 2’s output so far,

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I’ve stopped at the point where search terms only bought me less than 10 visitors since I installed the plugin. You can see from the list that the sonic focus drivers error message that I encountered a long time ago are by far and away the biggest crowd pulled, closely followed by the floods in Gloucestershire (specifically Tewksbury) back in 2007. That second one is all down to Irina spotting some photos online that other people seem to find interesting, I guess.

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