Stu ‘n’ Sonias Weblog

The best thing by far about winter is a traditional sunday roast. My preference is for roast lamb, roast potatoes, carrots, yorkshire puddings (lots of) and mint sauce, Sonia likes a few more veggies but essentially the same minus the meat and with a splodge of gravy!
The second best thing about winter is red wine, [...]

I can think of lots of ways to spend 31 hours over the course of a working week; finishing the nursery, fixing the broken fence, doing the food shopping…. what I didn’t want to be doing was sitting on all manner of public transport for the equivalent of some peoples working week, trying to get [...]

Todays excuse for the 1hr delay between Colchester and Liverpool street was overhead power problems and a broken down train making my morning commute a mind numbing 4hrs… grrrr
Hopefully the milions being spent putting the power underground ready for the olympics will extend onto the mainline services and benefit the people who are paying for [...]

Urgh, not sure we want to go back to the rest of the classes. So far we have seen gruesome pictures, heard gruesome stories and have found out that sonia can’t have any drugs during labour since her blood pressure is too low, still its not all bad as we found out that we can [...]

We spent most of today painting the babys room “Primrose Yellow”…. looks magnolia to me but what do I know!
Pics to follow when I’ve done the woodwork and the carpet has been fitted.

It seems like we are spending money like its going out of fashion at the moment, today we chose a new carpet for the babys room along with some paint tester pots and I bought a garden vacuum (christmas present from mum and dad walker) to get rid of all those annoying pear tree leaves [...]

Looks like I will be working for a client over at Heathrow for the next 6 to 12 weeks – barring the 3 weeks paternity leave that I will take when bump decides to grace us with its presence.
It shouldnt be too bad on the work front but the travel is going to be a [...]

…. hope it brings you lots of luck and happiness