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Sorry, I mean data loss. So there's another high profile news item about data loss. We've had Nationwide losing a laptop containing details of their mortagees, child benefit claimants data going missing, and now details of convicted crimnials have gone over the wall.
All I can say is, finally - one we're not worried about!
More cake, anyone?Two years old!
It hardly seems like two minutes, never mind two years. But when we look at how much he's come along in this last year - walking, just starting to string sentences together, size 6-and-a-half shoes, two room changes in nursery, chickenpox, train obsession, Nemo obsession, fully acquainted with luxurious hotels, the list starts to look more like "how did he fit that into just a year?".
However we look at it, and I think I speak for both of us when I say that it's been a great year, one to make us very proud as parents of such a wonderful kid.
Happy birthday, son!
All our love, Mummy & Daddy.
On the eve of his second birthday, the boy's shown us that he's well and truly ready to move out of his cot and into a bed.
He's been showing us all week to be fair, but tonight was a clear line drawn in the sand.
For ages I've grappled with the fact that when replying to emails using Thunderbird you don't get the original email's details regarding sent timestamp. In Thunderbird there seems to be a "Outlook does it so we won't" attitude, but this is one that is really useful for auditing, to track threads of emails (especially when about to submit formal complaints to governing bodies).
And then, with a quick look on the old tinternet, I came across the answer.
We've had a major outbreak in recent history of foot & mouth disease, almost crippling the UK's livestock farming industry, affecting rural areas in terms of tourism and general movements of goods and people. Then, with the worst behind us, we have another handful of smaller outbreaks.
And has this affected us directly as a family in any way?
It's been a running saga between me & Vicki over the countdown to when we revisit Holestone Moor Barns, so when we were arranging payment and she asked "how many days now" she got the following reply...
"Well, it's 14 days until the boy's 2, and then...."
And then, and then I realised. TWO YEARS OLD SOON.
Where on earth did that year go? We've only just cleaned the carpet from his FIRST birthday wet BBQ.
The second most important purchase you're ever likely to make is your car.
Unless you buy a 57' narrowboat like I have my eye on - unfortunately that's all that's on one, my wallet is a little light in that respect.
So is the travel system the second most important purchase you'll make for the little one? Or the single most important thing?
From the "must-be-seen-to-be-splashing-cash" brigade, forking out a King's ransom on a pram or buggy, through the "last-year's-colours-so-what" type and on to the re-use and second hand markets, one thing is for sure. Your choice directly impacts on the environment.
How?
And the next milestone along the journey of all things vocabulary passes us by this week. Yesterday it started, and it wasn't the usual case of try it once, leave it a while, then come back to it. It was mastered instantly, in context, repeatable, you name it.
So, in the immortal words of one Mr Freddie Mercury, we'll let you in on the secret of the last word.
He's not even 2 years old, but he's been sucked in by commercialism already! Am I talking about Thomas the f***ing Tank Engine? No!! Well, I suppsoe I could be...
It had to happen, I don't recall having discussed religion before but here we have it. It had to happen some time, the boy has been to a Christening. In a church, no less.
NOT the baby's food, but the RSS feed!
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