Since my last ‘blog I have tinkered with the site. At the moment I think about two people in the world know of its existence, which is at odds to my original one which received 110,000 page views during the ten months of postings.

Most of it is in place, with the exception of photographs. Hopefully they will be on soon.

What has happened since the 8 July, when I did my last proper posting?

The old site was temporarily disabled by the company that hosted the site, with promises that it would be “live” again soon. That was four months ago so I sadly have given up with the idea it will be in use again. The text is still available but they have not responded to my last couple of email.

I am back to work now full time and there have been a few changes there. We have gone from two enforcement officers to four so that was good. I did not get the senior post as I probably said, but that no longer matters.

It is good in a way to get back to some normality and a routine.

Rachel is self employed still, and decided not to go back to working in an office. She receives digital dictation via broadband, mainly specialising in surveyors reports, and so this means she can be flexible with hours of work to some extent.

We have not yet put the house on the market though we have finalised the web site we did for the house. Need to update things on that though.

Our news is that Rachel is expecting, with the baby due 18 May 2008. For the last few weeks she has been feeling really rotten and things have not been so good for her. It seems to be easing a bit now and hopefully she has turned the corner in some respects.

People have been offering all sorts of advice as to whether it is a boy or a girl so we will have to wait and see. I do not think we will find out the sex beforehand though.

Rachel is still doing her woodcarving and is still producing house signs to order, as well as doing more recreational work for herself. I have included her website in the Links section so take a look.

I am still pottering in the kitchen and have got myself into trouble recently with the various odours that eminate from there. As Rachel is feeling a bit delicate at times my frying of liver does not help, and nor does the roasting of pigeon and partridge. My idea of getting a stew going in the slow cooker did not go down well either, as obviously the cooking smells developed throughout the day, invading every nook and cranny in the house.

Rachel is today up at her mum and dads, up on the Moor, and will be out amongst the fields hopefully getting some fresh air. Her mum is coming down to stay for a few days this week which is nice.

Last nice I went with my friend Steve to Plymouth Pavilions to see “From the Jam.” This is a “new” band made from two of the original members of The Jam who split up years ago. I saw the Jam a few times in the past and were my favourite and have remained so to date, and to see them almost again as they were was great. The price of t-shirts have gone up though since I last bought one.

I have still have a collection of t-shirts from the 80’s although they no longer fit me strangely. At least the other people who came along last night have hung on to their old clothes, with a few mouldy parkas in the crowd.

Of course, a bite to eat in the Wetherspoons opposite meant that I maintained the tradition of eating the way we did in Bristol.

My pasta should be al dente in a moment so I shall try and post this…..

Many of you will know that when Freddie was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on July 8 2006 I started to keep a daily 'blog so that friends, relatives and colleagues could follow our progress whilst we lived in Bristol during Freddie's treatment.

I continued the 'blog until exactly a year after he was admitted to the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children where his first two weeks were in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).

The 'blog was called "Get Well Freddie" then although changed to "We Love You Freddie" on the 13 April 2007 after we were told that the leukaemia had returned aggressively, and that he only had a few weeks to live.

After he passed away I made a few more entries, until the old 'blog site shut down for "maintenance." The suggestion was that the 'blog site would come back again but as four months have passed I decided to recreate the 'blog after requests from the many followers around the world.

The etxt is the same as before (just cut and pasted from my archive) and the photographs are similar. I am getting to grips with this 'blog site so it may take a while for me to find my way around. I have tried to make it look familiar to those who followed the 'blog first time around.

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