Lost soles

August seems to have finished. What's been happening since the last blog?

Decisions, decisions

August has come to an unexpected end. We were up in Godmanchester for Kate's birthday a few weeks ago, and spent the Bank Holiday weekend doing odd jobs around the house. On Saturday we saw another property, and promptly put an offer in. Now we have two offers accepted! We hope to drop the first property soon (the seller has been rubbish, and this property is nicer) and crack on with buying and installing ourselves in the new one.

On Monday we had a nice lunch with Jo's friends from Harpenden NCT, and their husbands and babies, and on Tuesday we sorted out the mortgage with the nice people at HSBC (it's like the NatWest adverts, and nothing like the Halifax adverts) and spent the afternoon in IKEA looking for a rocking chair.

The damage

Today, Tim lost his trainer to a long-running rip (see picture). From memory, these were the trainers that completed the 2007 marathon, so they've done very well!

Euan is experimenting with his food, and is now quite happy in his highchair, with messy hands.

This weekend, the Premiership rugby season starts, and Granny & Grandpa Reid are coming over to visit. We might even let them babysit, if they're good!

We really ought to start planning our trip to Australia. No idea what to pack, or what Euan's going to eat on the plane!

First tooth!

News today...

Euan's first tooth is coming in! You can just about see it, but

you can definitely feel it when he (inevitably) sticks your finger in his mouth.

He's been in remarkably good spirits so far, if teething is supposed to be a difficult time. Hope he stays this chilled through the rest of the process.

It might explain why he's been waking a little more at night. It probably doesn't explain why he likes butternut squash but doesn't like sweet potato.

p.s. Here's Euan with Smartie, the cat Paula and Dave bought him when they first came to visit. Smartie has really come into his own in recent days, and is a firm favourite, so thank you both! x

Long time, no blog

At long last, we've made some time to upload more photos to the site!

Tim's been a bit self-indulgent here and has put together a slideshow of recent pictures of Euan.

If you'd like to see more, click on the photo above. x

Tim's mum and dad are in France and Jo's mum and dad are almost on their way back from their long holiday in Oz with the "young" Concannons.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

JET x

bouncy bouncy

New Super Kenny Logan Fan Club member

Echoes of '78

It's World Cup Final weekend, and the Dutch have made it to the final for the first time.

Talk of Holland and football would not (for a Scot) be complete without mention of Archie Gemmell and "that" goal (click above for a brief reminiscence).

Which takes us nicely to the big news of the day:

Toby and Rach have had a baby boy - Archie George Allebon

Born 7 July 2010, 7lb 15 ounces.

Congratulations to the new parents. I suspect this Archie may never play football for Scotland...

So what's new?

Brief newsflash:

• Euan has been swimming, and is loving the baby bouncer that is now hanging in the doorway to the lounge in Westfield Road. Photos of his beaming, bouncing face to follow!

• We've had an offer accepted on a house in Harpenden at long last. Fingers crossed it goes through, and in good time.

• Today, Euan paid a visit to Hogan Lovells and to GOSHCC as Jo popped in to catch up with her team. At time of writing, Euan wowed the lawyers and PAs in Holborn Viaduct with his cheeky smiles. I'm sure reports from GOSHCC will be much the same (unless a long-threatened poo makes an untimely arrival)

• It's too hot to sleep! Poor Euan doesn't like it much, although he's still all smiles in the morning. 5.30 in the morning. Looking forward to a slight drop in temperatures and a good night's sleep.
  Off to Brizzle this weekend to hang with Ed, Eliza, Tia and the bump, Sara and Beth. Looking forward to a good catch-up round the BBQ and to reminisce over Beth and Patch's wedding.

Gus

Congratulations to Gav, Andrea and Jessie on the arrival of

Gus McGregor Horn

on Monday evening

OK, we don't know football

Told you it wouldn't last. Now sitting 15th worldwide.

Once upon a time that would have amazed me. Now I just feel hollow inside.

I'm afraid that leaves me hoping for a Germany 2-1 England to match the weekend's predictions and get me back up the table. At least it will spare our English readers the nightmare of more penalty heartache. At least that makes the game win-win: everyone's happy if England win; and I get points if Germany do.

Have a good weekend

We know football

It won't last, but here's evidence that Tim was (yesterday) 2nd out of 6,100 competitors in the sportguru.co.uk world cup predictions game (predicting winners, margins of victory and scores). He even got a mention in the game's daily bulletin (described as "Castaignede, an Algeria fan").

All this goes to show that football is utterly unpredictable.