Yearly Archives: 2008

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!  [Edit - stupid website clock is set to US time... I'll fix it later] It’s still a bit weird waking up to a cold New Year’s Day, after spending most of them in a New Zealand summer. I’ve only ever had one white Christmas, and that was in Canada when I...

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random sunday night facts

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1) Rachel doesn’t have to go to work again until July
2) I have to go to work in the morning
3) Cracker (aka evilspawnofnarly) now weighs 6 pounds (just over 2 kilos)
4) Cracker (aka evilspawnofnarly) is due to grace us with his/her presence in 3 weeks
5) Although we don’t actually know it, I firmly believe –...

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A few more photos from today and last night

Nothing to report – the Challis clan have successfully departed and as I type this, they should be sitting on a plane waiting to take off.  We had a lovely dinner at the Peak Lookout Restaurant last night – just the grownups – and this morning the clan came upstairs for coffee, banana, biscuits and...

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the angel at the top of the christmas tree

forgot to upload this one the other day…

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merry christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!
We’re at the tail end of Christmas day and it’s time to kick back and do… nothing.  The Challis clan invaded and we survived (it was a close one).  We had a great day of food, fun and friends, and the little ones loved their presents (well, Arabella was all about the food). ...

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cracker’s room – work in progress

As you can see, there’s the cot, changing table, bassinet and Rachel’s feeding chair thingy.  The alphabet stops and starts on a new line partly because an unnamed person (not me) didn’t leave enough space to finish the alphabet on the same line (!) and partly because we intend to put a large dresser in...

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back in the days when pirate shirts were cool

one from the archives – ross and i at the unicol ball back in university

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i almost forgot!

the world welcomed little bella lonsdale hayes last week – congrats to kieran and anna.  kieran of course being the mostly naked man in the pink apron featured right here just a few days ago…  here’s mum and baby stolen from bella’s blog:

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getting closer to christmas

…and that deserves christmas cat photos, and a random photo of a cool coloured cup (from FUEL espresso, here in HK). but before that, big news.
just kidding – nothing really going on at the moment.  challis clan arrives on saturday night and before that we have a whole lot of nothing going on. shopping is...

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kieran the manly man

beware the geek who knows how to take a screenshot really really quickly… here’s kieran in his manly man cooking gear (from our video chat tonight):

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