Into 2010

Happy New Year to you all !We hope 2010 brings you prosperity and happiness.

From Tim & Jo
xxx

It looks nothing like me, but...

Best Christmas Card of the year!

Thanks to Lucy, Tim, Poppy and Peter for this brilliant Christmas card!

Left Holden the baby...

Monday night unexpectedly saw the maternity ward at West Middlesex Hospital, and our midwife Natalie, shoot to fame in the ITV show, "Out of my depth".

If you can stomach the scenes of childbirth and (worse still) Amanda Holden, then you can watch the show online this week by clicking on the ITV Player (or the picture above).

Unveiling the new car!

Our new car, yesterday.

We picked up the new Seat Altea on Saturday morning.

We enjoyed driving it home, Tim didn't enjoy the trip back to the garage an hour later.

Minor glitch. It should hopefully be in full working order within a matter of days...

Jo's birthday

At long last, we've uploaded all the photos from Jo's birthday, when Tim, Lucy, Poppy and Peter joined us at Verity and Mick's on one of the last sunny days of 2009. Click on the photo above to see the album.

Glaswegian advent calendar

Glaswegian Advent Calendar

Flat update...

We've accepted an offer on the flat!

Sausages and celebrities

You'd buy it, wouldn't you?

Having to leave the flat at 9am on Saturday (to make way for the estate agents) we had a great excuse to enjoy breakfast in St. Margarets. Eating alongside that bald bloke from The Gadget Show, Jo had a couple of pastries while Tim filled up for a day of Christmas shopping with scrambled eggs, bacon and chorizo. Yum!

The rain stayed away for most of the day, which slightly improved the shopping experience in Kingston, but that didn't stop some people from dragging muddy footprints round our lovely clean flat. Hope one of them makes an offer, to make up for it....

On Sunday, during a brief reprieve from house-cleaning, we visited the St Margarets Christmas Fair on Crown Road. Tim had his first mulled wine of the season, we both had warm mince pies and we braved the rain and snow-machine to sing (rocking) carols in the car park of The Tavern with Milton Jones providing comedy.

Breakfast with man in uber-trendy glasses, carols with man with odd hair...

After that, it was back home for Christmas card writing, and a double-bill of movies: Batman Begins on TV, and The Last King of Scotland on DVD (not the upbeat biopic of Willie Miller that Tim was expecting...). Now the estate agents have gone, Jo has been able to inflate the gym ball in an effort to find a comfortable sitting position for at least 5 minutes at a time.

Idi Amin - contributed nothing to Aberdeen's push for European football domination

Keeping our fingers crossed for some good news on Monday about the flat. Will keep you posted, as ever!

Poop poop!

Poop poop!

Just received a call to say that our new car is going to be ready for collection next week. Woohoo!

Jo can now do her driving practice with air-con and power steering, but it's curtains for the old Fiesta, thanks to the scrappage scheme. Most important of all, it has 5 doors and space for a little seat in the back!