Our Honeymoon!!

Here is a picture of us in the Dordogne (South-west of France) where we spent just over one week on our honeymoon. We stayed in a lovely cottage just outside of a village called Sarlat. We hired a small car and drove around the region visiting lovely gardens, chateaux and markets. It was nice to see vegetables that were 'normal' sized rather than the competition-sized (ie over-big!) vegetables we find here in Poland! We passed on the opportunity to try foix gras and geese gizzards though!

To see a few more pictures of our Honeymoon in the Dordogne....(click on the link below)

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5590016

Another picture of our wedding!

Our Wedding!

We got married on 21 April in Newbury. It was a lovely day and we were blessed with some really nice weather.

We've posted a stack of photos here...

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/5379387

so if you want to have a look, click on the link and then select 'slide-show'

Our second scan!

The next scan took place at 22 weeks - by this time our baby had got a fair bit bigger and was beginning to move around a bit.

Again the doctor took Amy through a series of tests and we got to see our baby again, only this time the scan was a fair bit clearer and well defined.

The doctor was able to tell us the sex of the baby and we discovered we were having a little girl!

Everyone at Amy's work was really excited and even though we still had an awful long way to go before the birth we already felt like proud parents!

Learnt a new word at the doctors as well 'mocz' - when we left the doctors he asked me whether I had any questions. Written on the sheet he had been filling in was the word 'mocz' so I asked him what it meant......(it means urine).

I'll add that to my other useful Polish word (jez) - meaning hedgehog.

Our first scan

This was our first view of our baby at 12 weeks. She was only a tiny thing then - about the size of a cashew nut!

We had both been pretty excited when we found out the news that Amy was pregnant, and so it was great to final see the baby.

At this stage we didn't know the sex, but the doctor was able to check out rudimentary things and tell us that all was well! it was full steam ahead to baby-ville!

The blog begins!

Hi everyone,

I've always been a real critic of those circular e-mails or newsletters that people send at Christmas saying what has been going on in their lives. They never tell of bad (or interesting!) news, and some of them are really cloying.

When Amy and I started talking about the idea of having a blog for our baby who is due to be born later this year, I was reminded of the global impersonal communications that people send out at the end of the year, but then realised that maybe they do serve a purpose after all!

At least by producing a blog in this way people can see what's going on in our lives, and no doubt we'll periodically update this site. Fundamentally too it saves us the bother of writing to everyone and gives you as a reader the opportunity to read (or ignore) our news!

If you want to know what's going on with us then you can have a look here - if you're not in the slightest interested then you don't have to put up with a circular e-mail...

As this is the first time we've done a blog like this, you'll have to forgive us any typos or rubbish content!

Enjoy reading!

Trevor and Amy x

Feltre

I'm writing this retrospectively some 8 years after the event, but in 2005 along with (ex-Mayor of Newbury!) Garry Poulson, Clare Maynard and Richard Maynard I went to Feltre with Newbury Twin towns. I played in a tennis tournament there (losing all 3 games!) and afterwards we visited nearby Bassano del Grappa (where this picture is taken).

It was a lovely long weekend and it's a great place to visit with lovely food and wine. From memory both Feltre and Bassano were beautiful medievil towns.