"It's going to be a bumpy ride" was how the Brave Merchant's captain finished his statement. And my gosh was he right. But let me start at the beginning. (more…)

Today I went to the hospital again for another scan. This time I got two photos. One looks like an alien grinning at me:

The other shows the baby happily sucking its thumb:

Don't you think too that the forehead is just like Frank's? I fear for the worst when it comes to head size!

All looks well so far and it's always very exciting to see the baby move on the screen. I also saw the little heart with all its chambers beating away and the spine with the rib case. We were trying to see whether it's a boy or a girl, but baby was successfully obstructing the view by lifting up its legs. Seems to be into yoga and surprises…

I am still shocked: our web server in Dublin gave up last week!

Thankfully I have a great home network admin who happened to be on home leave at the time. He took the hard drive with him to England and applied all changes of the web site to the back-up server that was already over there. So, until the domain name of sylkeweb.com is transferred, welcome to brathahn.demon.co.uk!

What else is going on?

Yippeah: We are selling our house and looks like the first and only viewers will be getting it. They made an offer straight-away!

Sigh: I'll be driving over to the Eastleigh for the first time soon. Gosh, this is an undertaking! I am planning to take a first load of my stuff over. Sofia will be going with me and I was hoping she could do some of the driving. To hire a van and take it to England I had to make quite a number of calls. Turns out, you need to have your own car insurance to drive the van, which means Sofia won't be allowed to drive. So first I'll need to get my car insurance transferred for the time to cover commercial vehicles, secondly I need to get some special travel insurance. All of those I can only get once I know the registration number of the van. But the van people can't give me that until very shortly before I get the van. I can't even book the ferry without the registration. For Goodness' sake, is anything easy in this country?

The added problem is of course my pregnancy. It's very tough to pack boxes and carrying them is a complete 'nono'. I have to say I know some very generous people who kindly agreed carrying all the stuff into the van on Thursday night!!!