Author: The Collington Family

  • Weekly Digest for May 13th

    Listened to Gettin’ in the Way – Jill Scott — 3:05pm via Last.fm Listened to Heartbeat – Scouting for Girls — 3:09pm via Last.fm Listened to Do You Sleep? – Lisa Loeb — 3:35pm via Last.fm

  • What on earth is going on!?

    What on earth is going on!?

    Ok — if you’ve been on this evening you’ve probably seen our website try on about 5 different formats including this one.  We’re in the process of redesigning so things are going to look a bit… odd for a while.  Please bear with us!

  • Which came first?

    Which came first?

    Which came first?  The scissors, or the impossible-to-open-without-scissors packaging?

  • General musings

    General musings

    At the bottom of our garden is nothing but fields and we’ve had it filled to the brim with sheep recently. Andrew took a couple of really cute photos: Mom lookin’ snazzy with her new haircut. It’s not a hair bow — it’s a stinging nettle leaf… but doesn’t she look cute??

  • Brickyard walk

    Brickyard walk

    Andrew, Luther and I decided to go for a walk the other day. There is an old brickyard nearby where all the bricks for the houses in the village were produced. It has long since been abandoned but apparently you can still see the dilapidated kilns, etc. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to find them —…

  • Luther

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  • Playing with our new toy

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  • It’s a BOY!!

    We’re having a boy, we’re having a boy… YAY!!!! (click to get the full size) Crap. Now we have to come up with a boy’s name… NOT EASY! Any ideas?? All (real) suggestions welcome!

  • 2nd Ultrasound

    Today we had our dating ultrasound and everything still looks good! More like a baby, which is nice. Roughly the size of your thumb. And it even shook it’s bum and waved it’s hand — which was AMAZING!! Due date the same as my math based on our conception date: 08 July 2007. But as…

  • 1st ultrasound

    We had our first ultrasound today. It was an internal and Lisa nearly broke Andrew’s thumb off as it felt like the technician was trying to skewer her bladder. But the good news is we are definitely having a baby (or a blob with a heartbeat that will eventually be a baby) and there is…