Yay! the year metal won eurovision!

We have had such a laugh! we voted 3 times for Lordi! and contributed to Englands 12 votes max for Finland, delivered with horns! raaaah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNV-bsKNk_0&search=lordi%20semi

See Lordi at the semi finals! 

Triple test results

Good news!
The combined results of the triple test and nuchal scan have reduced Pumpkin's risk of having Downs or Spina Bifida from 1 in 1900 (the equivelent of a 15 year old's risk factor) to a very, very low 1 in 73000. This is fantastic news for our Pumpkin, and for our plans for a clutch of brothers and sisters :)

our website

I started collecting price comparison web sites yesterday, and decided that in homage to all scraggy homepages everywhere I would throw up one of my own.

So here it is in multicolour glory:
www.tobyandchristine.f2s.com

Spriited Away - 4 stars

This was the highest grossing film ever in Japan. Its wonderfully imaginative, almost a Manga take on the Wizard of Oz. I really enjoyed it. 

The Libertine - 5 Stars

Yet another Johnny Depp Triumph, it says decadent witty and deliciously obscene, this is true in real 17th Century style. 

I nicked this off someone elses blog. I just thought it rather funny. 

I missed the daffodil stage but this was the patch in May, this is the 2nd and 3rd wave of Tulips too. 

you may remember this was the patch in the front garden in Feb. 

Grandma, is back home.

My Grandma (almost 81) has come out of hosptital after a couple of worrying days and will be having the heart operation she so dreaded but is supposed to give her another 10 years in a few weeks. I hope it works, I so want my bump to have a great grandmum. I had a good natter with her on the phone and she seems pretty good at the moment.

We've switched to a huge organic box from a normal one and Tobe is really going for it! His latest was a very garlicy cabbage and broccoli soup with a dolop of goats yoghurt. It was delish! We had a longish conversation about baby feeding and how we will try to feed our offspring veg by any means possible and how boring veg was when we were growing up (frozen and overcooked).

WoW realm migration

Today my dad asked me

Heard that there were big probs with WoW [World of Warcraft] - too many players. Have you been suffering?

I was chuffed he'd asked, and I thought I'd record my reply for posterity...

Indeed, I had been suffering a month or two back, when the 'realm' (ie server) that my guild played on was overcrowded. The main problem was that there was an upper limit on the number of players who could be online at any one time, so there was a queue to get on.

However Blizzard allowed us to move our characters to a new realm. In fact they allowed escapees from two realms to jump ship and populate a new world. So we've gone from queueing, to an earily quiet and empty world. It used to be that my PC juddered when I walked through the middle of IF ('IronForge', the major city) because of the number of people, spells, pets etc that it had to render. When we first moved over, however, IF was deserted! It's still quiet, which has it's advantages (out in the wilds there's plenty of space and monsters for everyone) and disadvantages (the auction house prices are rather high, slight problems forming groups and not much Horde-Alliance warfare), but numbers are growing.

Excellent game - my mage is lvl 45 now :)

Billybob is fit!

What a fabulously sunny day! Lucky me had the afternoon off to Ely Hospital for my 15 week check with my midwife. I heard the heart beat! fast, healthy and regular. The results from the blood tests have mostly come back, my blood sugar is good, my blood pressure is good and she seemed to be happy with my wee sample too. I've spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden enjoying the weather and admiring my veggie patch.The survey has gone out to the musicians in Cambridge and the Ely one will go up on the ADeC website on Friday to be a link for the emails from the ADeC mailing list. They were impressed with the survey, I'm chuffed.I've had one reply back already!

More pots!

This is the other side, more pots and the bedding. All the plants are still very small so I'm looking forward to seeing what flowers come up - in the bedding I've got summer bulbs starting to come up too. On sunday, I did 3 hours in the garden, followed by almost as long in the bath then went to bed at 9pm. Thankfully today I've not been too achey. 

the garden!

On sunday I did finally get to the garden centre, Soham Nurseries, which i found very impressive, we bought zillions of baby plants and two bags of soil, one organic for the veg plot and one general perpose for the pots and to put a bit on the beds front and back AND some terracotta pots! it came to about £40 which i was most relieved.
We had lunch at Ellen and Dans and delivered the 3 climbing plants we got for Ellen. Then I spent 3 hours on the garden, digging over a bit and re-doing some of the pots I already had plus filling the new ones. I made a total of 7 pots, each with a selection of plants, some bedding front and back and the veg plot has tomatoes, lettuce, purple sprouting broccoli and corgettes; one at each end trailing in oposite directions hopefully :) the picture is to see it now, beginning of may and I'm going to try to remember to take a picture every few weeks to see how they grow. I still have to get more soil to do the indoor ones - both edible, sweet peppers and some house plants to replace the ones I've managed to kill over the winter. Major casualties being the fig tree that went outside too early and got frosted and the olive that just didn't like being indoors - the 2nd I've managed to kill. Oh well. I've got some nice easy succulents and ferns this time.
We went to Hyde Park for Bank Holiday Monday for Stef's Picnic thing. It rained all morning and we weren't optimistic the weather would hold but by the time we got into London the sun was shining here and there and it stayed dry all afternoon with bits and piece of sun. It wasn't super warm, I ended buying a hot chocolate as appose to an icecream!
We headed back early evening and I cooked poached trout with artichokes and purple sprouting brocolli, with a garlic and mushroom fish sauce. very nice.
Mustn't forget, tomorrow I have an appt at the doctors to give some blood for the triple test. I also have my 15 week midwife appt on thursday.