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Sylvia is cuter than ever! She gave us her first smile this week (well, it was fleeting but we’re counting it OK?!) but she has been trying our patience during the evenings by taking ages to settle each night. We put her to bed at 7pm after a bath and once she settles she will [...]

This week we have been amused by the range of sounds Sylvia makes. At times she is a car whose fan belt is slipping or a kettle whistling, at others a lamb baaing gently or a horse neighing (very realistic that one). In the early days she was a golden eagle making that lone cry [...]

Since we named our daughter Sylvia lots of people like to impress us with their knowledge of the use of the name “Sylvia” in popular culture so we thought it would be interesting to document all cultural references and famous people called Sylvia in the blog. There seem to be three major references … the [...]

Well, I am writing this on my newly installed computer running linux … Windows XP is NO MORE Ha Ha! I have got the Fedora Core 5 flavour of linux, once I had backed up my old stuff onto a Buffalo (the harddrive not the large mammal) it took only an hour to reformat my [...]

Great start to the week for me, booted up my PC on arrival at work at 8.30am and 2 hours later it’s still trying to get Windows XP started … oops! I have been having some odd happenings on this particular PC (Dell Dimension 8400) in the past few months but there was still plenty [...]