Things moved very fast today to bring Micah George Brown into the world at 3:28pm Sat 19 Feb 2011, weighing 1.5kg. Kat started having some minor contractions overnight, which progressively got stronger and stronger. By the time I got to the hospital about 11am they were coming every 10 minutes and were clearly not at [...]

This is just a short update to say that there is nothing new to say! This in itself is excellent news I’m still on hospital bed rest at Holles St National Maternity Hospital where I have very little to complain about. I’m in a 4 bed room here which is good and I’m all set [...]

It’s been said that pregnancy can be a rollercoaster, and we’ve well and truly experienced that over the past few days. It started with a great weekend – our friends Graeme and Ruth from London were visiting and we had a wonderful time showing them around Dublin and chatting about life, vegan food and babies. [...]

The last 3 months have been an exciting time for us… On August 27th we learned that I’m pregnant! We were both delighted and a little dazed and overwhelmed (even though it was planned) about the new adventure we had stepped in to. Now, at the end of the first trimester we’re still delighted of [...]

This post originally appeared on Matt’s Musings (Matt’s computer focussed blog). I’ve been eagerly looking forward to the release of Xero Personal which has been heavily promoted by Xero and BNZ (as MoneyMap) for the last few months. Unfortunately my first impressions of the product today are extremely underwhelming. Xero Personal is definitely not worth anywhere close to $5/month [...]

Not wanting to risk life becoming even remotely boring, we’ve decided to change jobs, move countries (temporarily) and move apartments over the next 2 months. Change comes all at once! The trigger for all this change was one small decision that I made to move from the team that I currently work in, to a [...]

On Thursday last week we became the proud owners of a three bedroom house in Claudelands, Hamilton, ticking off the second major task on our todo list for our visit back to NZ. We had been looking at property in Hamilton since before we left Dublin thanks all the listings available online. Our original thoughts [...]

This post originally appeared on Matt’s Musings (Matt’s computer focussed blog). It’s been a while since I’ve taken any sort of quiz like this, so when David Farrar from Kiwblog posted his results today it prompted me to give it another go. My Political ViewsI am a center-right moderate social libertarianRight: 1.33, Libertarian: 1.97Political Spectrum [...]