I'm an auntie!

I hope Helen & Chris won't mind me posting this on my site before they have chance to on theirs but it's just so exciting. Helen gave birth to a little girl (how surprising is that!?!) yesterday afternoon after what sounds like a very straightforward labour (albeit induced). I'll leave her to tell you all about it herself in due course.

Rik, Dan and myself are visiting at the weekend - though how thrilled Dan will be remains to be seen. He's a bit pre-occupied with teething and generally not being very happy at the moment. Can't wait! Also can't wait for Dan to be feeling better / happier etc.

People have been asking what I look like now I've had my hair chopped. For those of you that haven't seen it yet ...... this is what it looks like (or used to look like before it started growing again!)

First Day

Yes, Dan had his first full day at nursery and Alex her first day at work (well half day; we don't want to overdo things!) And everything went very well. Dan seems to be very happy at nursery - despite the heat - and has made quite a few new friends.

Alex was pleasantly surprised to find she hasn't forgotten all her planning law in the seven months since she was last in the office but I'm looking forward to getting some of my own files back again. Same again tomorrow ......

Our kitchen

We have cancelled our contract with Magnet. They didn't even want to know why! Very peculiar. My advice - don't go there unless you want an over-expensive MFI. Back to square one.

actually we have only been able to arrange to have our contract cancelled. As I said, the salesman didn't even want to talk to us. We were left with the receptionist who came back and said it would be "sorted". We shall wait and see

Dan in Devon

June 2006: Dan on holiday with his frog (and us). The mat he's lying on was made by my friend Sarah - and it's wonderful! (thanx Sarah)






Holidays are a time for snoozing - with Eddie the Elephant of course .....






or just enjoying the sunshine with Mr Whoozit

More baby pics

If you'd like to see more pictures of Dan please click on the link "Baby Pics". At the moment there's only those from his first few days of life. I will beat my IT maintenance sufficiently to get this updated!

Easter 2006: This was not my idea but yes that is a minature whisky he's clutching with his catapillar..... like Grandfather like grandson I guess

In the beginning

19 Jan 2006; Here he is - just minutes old and already so calm and accommodating (please excuse the goop!)



The first thing he ever wore! Now (nearly 6 months later) he has just about grown out of it :-(

I've included this for my mum. This was taken on Friday or Saturday morning so he'd be either 1 or 2 days old.

I'm not sure when this was taken - sometime towards the end of January or early February. The snowsuit is intended for newborns - his hands are in there somewhere!

Baby Dan

I'm now going to attempt (the operative word!) to post a selection of photos charting Dan's progress from the early days in the bleak midwinter to currently (well not that current since the camera seems to have vanished for the last couple of weeks ... I suspect Rik has it somewhere! Watch this space .........

Greetings from the Clan Kershaw-Moore. Yes I've joined the Blog revolution - sorry to be unoriginal Helen n Sonj but I was feeling left out. Besides this can hopefully be a venue for me to update you on the progress of my little Dan - you'll notice it's his visage that graces our profile. Well he's far more photogenic than me!