Lunchtime, first day back at work after a long stretch of time off the grid. In summary, it's been a morning of work email reading. It took us ages to get home yesterday - we dawdled quite a lot on the way home from…
Family
Matt, the main blogger round these parts is patriarch and assistant manager to a rather special family. Other members are: Eirene, patient and beautiful wife and mother to their 4 mini them. Introducing the DragonDroplets: Felix (born 1998), Jaygo (2001) Sophie (2006) and Annie Mo (2013). Augmented with a Labradinger dog (half English Springer, half Chocolate Lab).
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My eldest, my youngest- We're in't paper!
Following on from my last blog - we're now in Dublin. We had to drive through the city centre at rush hour, but because of the beautiful sunset which accompanied us, everything was AOK. We're now trenched at 'Irish…
- Ship to shore
Well this is a first. I'm blogging from a ship. The Irish Ferries ship Ulysses to be specific. The largest passenger ferry (Jeremy Clarkson voice) in the world. We're on our way to Dublin for Easter where the main event…
- We changed our names today
Today we registered the birth of our latest edition - Annie Maureen Watson-Power to give her, her full title. The Watson-Power is a coupling of both Eirene (my wife, Annie's mother) and my surnames. I was a Watson,…
- Snow day
Embedded video Slow Mo Elsie, playing with snow earlier today. A week and a half or so ago, I mused with a rather smug tone that I suspected we'd seen the back of the winter. 'Winter's last hurrah' I spouted. I didn't…
Photograph tasticThis photo of us being photographed was taken by Henry (who's up north to take part in a ultra marathon race tomorrow). The local news paper heard about our recent birth experience and as a result, we've been…
- Designer Glasses
A pet hate of mine is the phrase 'designer glasses' (see also 'designer sunglasses' and 'designer frames' - heck, I'm going to throw 'designer outlet' and 'designer clothes' in there as well for good measure). This…
Eyes Day 3 and we were blessed with quite a lot of Annie's eyes today. Albeit slightly confused and out of focus but still - we got to…
- First walk
We're (so far, touch wood) finding that Annie is slotting into our lives like she's always been part of it. Annies first night home last night and we had a fairly good nights sleep; she hung out with us 'till 10 ish,…
The birth of Annie MoEuphoric smiles in an ambulance. That doesn't happen very often. Back at home now, all splatting around the family room after a life changing 24 hours. Yesterday morning; St. Patrick's day, Eirene had our new baby. A…
- Some photos that I didn't take
Photographer Nicola Radford took a series of photos over the past week or two of mainly Eirene but some with Sophie. Eirene was keen to snapshot this point in her life, at the poignant bookmark of 39 weeks pregnant.…
- In loving memory
It's around this time of year that I miss my mum a fair bit. Mothers day and all that, but this Tuesday marks the 8th anniversary since her passing away. I've been sifting through a huge volume of of old photographs…
S C High & Tide Camera 'Bussiness' WatchThe typo on the box is to distract you from the tiny camera hole in the number 6 on the face. I used to be kind of a 'big deal' in the watchcam world. I used to run the worlds leading forum on watchcams (specifically…
Braxton Hicks on Yorkshire Beard DayI think I would have quite liked my new Daughter to be born on Yorkshire Beard Day. We stepped up to amber alert status earlier as Eirene (39 week pregnant wife) started having regular contractions. Turns out they were…
Further adventures in cross processingThese photos are not edited - they are 'straight out of the camera'. I'd used slide film - Fujichrome Provia 100f and asked a lab to process it through standard C41 process chemicals. The obliged. The results are this…